- Leg End
Infobox Album | Name = Leg End (aka Legend)
Type =Studio album
Artist =Henry Cow
Released = 1973
Recorded = The Manor,Oxfordshire ,England , May–June 1973
Genre =Avant-progressive rock
Length = 43:33
Label = Virgin (UK)
Producer =Henry Cow
Reviews =
*"Allmusic " Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:uzamqjmbojja link]
*Piero Scaruffi (7/10) [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol3/henrycow.html link]
*Review-Christgau|B|cgurl=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=579&name=Henry+Cow| Last album =
This album = "Leg End"
(1973)
Next album = "Unrest"
(1974)"Leg End" (also known as "Legend") is an album by British
avant-garde rock groupHenry Cow , recorded atVirgin Records ' Manor studios over three weeks in May and June1973 . It was their debut album and was released later that year.With the exception of the last track, and background voices on "Teenbeat", this is an instrumental album. The jazzy Canterbury sound on some of the pieces shows Henry Cow's beginnings, although they quickly moved on to establish their own unique sound. "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King", sung by the whole group, was Henry Cow's first overt political statement.
The album cover art work was by artist Ray Smith and was the first of three "paint socks" to adorn Henry Cow's albums.
Track listing
;Side One
#"Nirvana for Mice" (Frith) – 4:53
#"Amygdala" (Hodgkinson) – 6:47
#"Teenbeat (Introduction)" (Henry Cow ) – 4:32
#"Teenbeat" (Frith, Greaves) – 6:57;Side Two
#"Nirvana (Reprise)" (Frith) – 1:11
#"Extract from 'With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star' " (Frith) – 2:26
#"Teenbeat (Reprise)" (Frith) – 5:07
#"The Tenth Chaffinch" (Henry Cow ) – 6:06
#"Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" (Hodgkinson) – 5:34Personnel
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Geoff Leigh – Saxophones, flute, clarinet, recorder, voice
*Tim Hodgkinson – Organ, piano, alto saxophone, clarinet, little bells, voice
*Fred Frith – Guitars, violin, viola, piano, voice
*John Greaves – Bass guitar, piano, whistle, voice
*Chris Cutler – Drums, toys, piano, whistle, voiceGuests
*Jeremy Baines – pixiphone on "Yellow Half-Moon"
*Sarah Greaves ,Maggie Thomas and Cathy Williams – chorus on "Teenbeat"ound and art work
*Tom Newman – Recording engineer
*Mike Oldfield – Recording engineer (first part of "Nirvana for Mice")
*Henry Cow – Producer
*Ray Smith – Cover artCD reissues
*In 1991 East Side Digital issued a remixed version of "Leg End" on CD, with
Lindsay Cooper playing bassoon on "Amygdala", plus a bonus track, "Bellycan".
*In 1998 both East Side Digital andRecommended Records reissued "Leg End" on CD with the original mixing restored and the bonus track omitted.ee also
*"
Henry Cow Box " (2006)External links
* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]
* [http://calyx.club.fr/lyrics/henrycow/01.html "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" lyrics] . "The Canterbury Website".
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