Henry Cow Box

Infobox Album | Name = Henry Cow Box
Type = box
Artist = Henry Cow


Released = 2006
Recorded = 1973–1978
Genre = Avant-progressive rock
Length = 5:29:47
Label = Recommended (UK)
Producer = Henry Cow and others
Reviews =
Last album = "Western Culture" (1979)
This album = "Henry Cow Box" (2006)
Next album = "Stockholm & Göteborg" (2008)

"Henry Cow Box" is a seven-CD box set by English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow. It was released in 2006 by Recommended Records and comprises the six original albums Henry Cow made between 1973 and 1979, including those recorded with Slapp Happy. A bonus 3" CD-single was given to advance subscribers of the box set which contains previously unreleased material taken from live performances in Europe by The Orckestra, a merger of Henry Cow, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and folk singer Frankie Armstrong in 1977.

The albums featured here are the remastered versions (by Bob Drake) of the original mixes of the Henry Cow and Henry Cow/Slapp Happy albums released by Recommended Records between 1998 and 2006. (Remixed versions of "Leg End", "Unrest" and "In Praise of Learning" were issued in 1991 by East Side Digital.) The four bonus tracks on the 2001 reissue of "Western Culture" are omitted, but Henry Cow's "Greasy Truckers" set on the 2006 reissue of "Henry Cow Concerts" have been retained. The box set's album covers are CD-sized cardboard replicas of the original LP covers.

The box cover art work is one of artist Ray Smith's "paint socks" that adorned three of Henry Cow's LPs.

Track list

Disc 1: Leg End

Contains all the tracks (the original mixes) from the Henry Cow LP, "Leg End" (1973).
#"Nirvana for Mice" (Frith) – 4:53
#"Amygdala" (Hodgkinson) – 6:47
#"Teenbeat (Introduction)" (Henry Cow) – 4:32
#"Teenbeat" (Frith, Greaves) – 6:57
#"Extract from 'With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star' " (Frith) – 3:38
#"Teenbeat (Reprise)" (Frith) – 5:07
#"The Tenth Chaffinch" (Henry Cow) – 6:06
#"Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" (Hodgkinson) – 5:34

Disc 2: Unrest

Contains all the tracks (the original mixes) from the Henry Cow LP, "Unrest" (1974).
#"Bittern Storm over Ülm" (Frith) – 2:44
#"Half Asleep; Half Awake" (Greaves) – 7:39
#"Ruins" (Frith) – 12:00
#"Solemn Music" (Frith) – 1:09
#"Linguaphonie" (Henry Cow) – 5:58
#"Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon" (Henry Cow) – 2:56
#"Arcades" (Henry Cow) – 1:50
#"Deluge" (Henry Cow) – 5:52

Disc 3: Desperate Straights

Contains all the tracks from the Slapp Happy/Henry Cow LP, "Desperate Straights" (1975).
#"Some Questions about Hats" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:49
#"The Owl" (Moore) – 2:14
#"A Worm is at Work" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:52
#"Bad Alchemy" (Greaves, Blegvad) – 3:06
#"Europa" (Moore, Blegvad) – 2:48
#"Desperate Straights" (Moore) – 4:14
#"Riding Tigers" (Blegvad) – 1:43
#"Apes in Capes" (Moore) – 2:14
#"Strayed" (Blegvad) – 1:53
#"Giants" (Moore, Blegvad) – 1:57
#"Excerpt from The Messiah" (Handel, Blegvad) – 1:48
#"In the Sickbay" (Krause, Blegvad) – 2:08
#"Caucasian Lullaby" (Cutler, Moore) – 8:20

Disc 4: In Praise of Learning

Contains all the tracks (the original mixes) from the Henry Cow/Slapp Happy LP, "In Praise of Learning" (1975).
#"War" (Moore, Blegvad) – 2:25
#"Living in the Heart of the Beast" (Hodgkinson) – 15:30
#"Beginning: The Long March" (Henry Cow, Slapp Happy) – 6:26
#"Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler) – 7:02
#"Morning Star" (Henry Cow, Slapp Happy) – 6:05

Discs 5 and 6: Concerts

Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow double LP (with Robert Wyatt), "Henry Cow Concerts" (1976), plus the Henry Cow tracks on the double LP, "Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall" (1974).;Concerts disc 1
#"Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler) – 5:41
#"Nirvana for Mice" (Frith) – 5:30
#"Ottawa Song" (Frith, Cutler) – 4:15
#"Gloria Gloom" (Wyatt, McCormick) – 4:13
#"Beautiful as the Moon (Reprise)" (Frith, Cutler) – 3:11
#"Bad Alchemy" (Greaves, Blegvad) – 2:54
#"Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road" (Wyatt) – 5:49
#"Ruins" (Frith) – 16:29
#"Groningen" (Hodgkinson, Henry Cow) – 8:53
#"Groningen Again" (Henry Cow) – 7:26;Concerts disc 2
#"Oslo 1" (Henry Cow) – 5:38
#"Oslo 2" (Henry Cow) – 3:15
#"Oslo 3" (Henry Cow) – 3:23
#"Oslo 4" (Henry Cow) – 3:00
#"Oslo 5" (Henry Cow) – 3:00
#"Oslo 6" (Henry Cow) – 1:44
#"Oslo 7" (Henry Cow) – 4:54
#"Oslo 8" (Henry Cow) – 4:01
#"Off the Map" (Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith) – 8:30
#"Cafe Royal" (Frith) – 3:22
#"Keeping Warm in Winter" (Frith, Greaves) – 1:00
#"Sweat Heart of Mine" (Henry Cow) – 9:06
#"Udine" (Henry Cow – 9:39

Disc 7: Western Culture

Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow LP, "Western Culture" (1979).;"History and Prospects"
#"Industry" (Hodgkinson) – 6:57
#"The Decay of Cities" (Hodgkinson) – 6:55
#"On the Raft" (Hodgkinson) – 4:01;"Day by Day"
#"Falling Away" (Cooper) – 7:38
#"Gretels Tale" (Cooper) – 3:57
#"Look Back" (Cooper) – 1:19
#"½ the Sky" (Cooper, Hodgkinson) – 5:07

Disc 8 (bonus 3" CD-single): Unreleased Orckestra Extract

Contains previously unreleased material taken from live performances in Europe by The Orckestra in April 1978.
#"Untitled" (Frith) – 3:40
#"Would You Prefer Us to Lie?" (Cutler, Greaves) – 8:03

Personnel

Henry Cow

*Fred Frith – Guitars, violin, viola, xylophone, piano, voice
*Tim Hodgkinson – Organ, piano, alto saxophone, clarinet, Hawaiian guitar, voice
*John Greaves – Bass guitar, piano, voice
*Chris Cutler – Drums, piano, voice
*Geoff Leigh – Saxophones, flute, clarinet, recorder, voice
*Lindsay Cooper – Bassoon, flute, oboe, soprano saxophone, sopranino recorder, piano, voice
*Dagmar Krause – Voice, piano
*Georgie Born – Bass guitar

lapp Happy

*Dagmar Krause – Voice
*Peter Blegvad – Guitar, voice, clarinet
*Anthony Moore – Piano, electronics and tapework

The Orckestra

*Fred Frith – Guitar
*Tim Hodgkinson – Organ, alto saxophone
*Chris Cutler – Drums
*Lindsay Cooper – Bassoon
*Dagmar Krause – Vocals
*Georgie Born – Bass guitar
*Mike Westbrook – Piano
*Kate Westbrook – Euphonium
*Dave Chambers – Soprano saxophone
*Paul Rutherford – Trombone
*Phil Minton – Vocals, trumpet
*Frankie Armstrong – Vocals

ee also

*"The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set" (2008)

External links

* [http://home.arcor.de/nyds-exp-discogs/frith.htm Fred Frith discography]