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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 17 2016 at 16:04
^ Yay !!
Not a lot going on regarding HC here. I currently obsessing over In Praise Of Learning.
Funny how Daggi sounds like a witch with HC, and then when she sings with Slapp Happy, she sounds like a sweet Angel. She really is an amazing singer.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 00:55
Yes, it's interesting to listen to Casablanca Moon then see how her singing developed with Henry Cow.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 04:24
Compare War to The Secret, both vocally and melodically-wise. Total opposites
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 05:45
Is the male voice on "War" John Greaves' or Peter Blegvad's? I'm sure I've heard it on Kew. Rhone., but never knew whose it was. I would guess Blegvad's, because it's his piece, but than again there is a similar voice on "Nine Funerals".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 05:58
It is Peter Blegvad - very distinctive drawl.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 07:42
Greaves' voice sounds more 'cockney' to my ears.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 09:37
I love War - also the same voices on the Slapp Happy John Peel Session MP3 you can find on Amazon Star.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 18 2016 at 10:16
Originally posted by 2dogs 2dogs wrote:

I love War - also the same voices on the Slapp Happy John Peel Session MP3 you can find on Amazon Star.

Frustratingly not available on US Amazon (or iTunes).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 03:26
I am not sure these releases were 'approved' by ReR Megacorp; you can't find them on there either. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 07:06
Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

I am not sure these releases were 'approved' by ReR Megacorp; you can't find them on there either. 

Hey, happy birthday, man! Smile All the best, loads of health, loads of pure happiness, and loads of great music!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 07:37
Well you're not really missing so much with the John Peel Session - Me and Parvati is of no consequence and the other two tracks sound like most of my music collection in 1974. I was 12 at the time and used to record the chart singles by placing the microphone of my cassette recorder in close proximity to the loudspeaker of the AM radio Disapprove.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 07:48
^Oh, I have heard it...I'm sure I have it on cassette somewhere, but I no longer even have a proper cassette player.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 19 2016 at 09:22
When you recognise Europa you may break down and cry Wink.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 04:11
Originally posted by ALotOfBottle ALotOfBottle wrote:


Hey, happy birthday, man! Smile All the best, loads of health, loads of pure happiness, and loads of great music!


Cheers!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 04:13
Originally posted by 2dogs 2dogs wrote:

When you recognise Europa you may break down and cry Wink.


Indeed...the sound quality doesn't help either - the Cow (and the Hatfield one) are much better.  Blegvad also does that silly short poem in 'War' (which I am glad they got rid of for IPOL)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 04:51
.........moving on....................
Slapp vs. Henry..................chalk and cheese.................yet, this 'meeting of the minds' can only happen in the '70's.......
How many folks are aware that Anthony Moore was, the Master, David Gilmour's lyricist, in latter-day Floyd ??
............On The Turning Away...........(music -Gilmour......lyrics-Moore).
Really very cool. And realistically - it just 'works'........
Right now. In my 'slightly' drunken stupor, I prefer the Mantler/Gorey tales with Robert Wyatt (The Hapless Child, And Other Stories) ..........
Just a BRILLIANT album, and certainly in-keeping with out dear Henry Cow troupe.......
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 05:05
Didn't Moore get a writing credit on 'The Division Bell' as well?

'Hapless Child' - excellent; stellar line up as well.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 05:31
- You know that Mantler / Gorey album ?????

One of my uber-precious vinyl's with a poster.....................
Steve Swallow and Jack DeJohnette as rhythm section - COUNT ME IN !!!   I've loved this incredible album for decades..... I find it fits in perfectly with Cow.............. More folks need to discover this AMAZING album. The way those stories fit in with, music mostly by Carla Bley, well, just BRILLIANT. As good as LegEnd..................
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 05:34
Terje Rypdal on guitar as well!  I was aware of it when it came out but only discovered it years later.  I don't like Silence or No Answer quite as much.  'The Doubtful Guest' still makes me smile.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2016 at 05:55
^ OMG !! You are of a precious few that know this album.   It is, and has been, one of my really special albums I acquired at a record fair around late-1995 - seriously, I had around a100 bucks to spend, and this fair yielded :
EGG - The Civil Surface (near-mint $6)
NATIONAL HEALTH (both S/T and Of Queues, beautiful copies... - 8 bucks each)
CARAVAN - S/T, the MGM Select press with a 'car towing a Caravan' cover (which smelled like mothballs for years....20 bucks)
KHAN - Space Shanty ; Beautiful g/f copy on Pink Elephant label for 10 bucks
Gordon Haskell - It Is And It Isn't (reasonable copy that plays neatly - 6 buck)
...............and, Mantler/Gorey 45 bucks.............
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