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    Posted: March 17 2017 at 05:52
Check this out:

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/half-the-sky/

Half the Sky present a selection of Lindsay Cooper’s compositions for the groups Henry Cow and News From Babel and Music for Films, 1978 – 1982.

ENSEMBLE:

Yumi Hara / arrangements, piano, keyboards, lever harp, voice
Miwazow / koto, ching-dong percussion, voice
Chlöe Herrington / bassoon, soprano sax, melodica
Dagmar Krause / voice
Wataru Okhuma / alto sax, clarinet
Nasuno Mitsuru / bass
Chris Cutler / drums





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Looks up box set online*
Sees price*
Makes cartoon "WOO HOO HOO HOOO!" noise*

So that's "Unrest" to get instead then.
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Originally posted by socrates17 socrates17 wrote:

The DVD in the box set is staggering.  Always a Greaves fan, I'd forgotten how good Georgie Born was on bass.
BTW, plans advance slowly but steadily for me to attend RIO and finally see Slapp Happy - a dream come true.

Let's make sure to connect if you get there Smile
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The DVD in the box set is staggering.  Always a Greaves fan, I'd forgotten how good Georgie Born was on bass.
BTW, plans advance slowly but steadily for me to attend RIO and finally see Slapp Happy - a dream come true.
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^Seconded!
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Originally posted by AZF AZF wrote:

So what should I listen to next? "Unrest" or "In Praise Of Learning"? Did we ever get the full version of "With The Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star"?

Go with Unrest - it will take time to be appreciated, or at least it did for me, but it's also fantastic.

There is an amazing full version "With The Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star" on the first disc of the 40th Anniversary Box Set. It's really spectacular - I love the "previously-unheard" bits of the piece and also the titles of its parts. Atmosphere is really dense on that one. Check it out!
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So what should I listen to next? "Unrest" or "In Praise Of Learning"? Did we ever get the full version of "With The Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star"?
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Quoting Nogbad:

 I just made a reco to a couple of friends on the sequence to buy them:-

DVD, S&G, Bremen, 1, 2, Hamburg
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Note that S & G is in the ReR sale - only £5!  The only DVD of the Cow in existence is also pretty essential!


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Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

ReR Megacorp are now reluctantly selling individual volumes from the Box Sets, go to:

http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=CURRENTUPDATE

and scroll down...

Sweet! Thanks for sharing. I am seriously considering buying either The Beginnings or 1974-75 volumes.
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Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

ReR Megacorp are now reluctantly selling individual volumes from the Box Sets, go to:

http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=CURRENTUPDATE

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Wayside is doing the same thing. I just made a reco to a couple of friends on the sequence to buy them:-

DVD, S&G, Bremen, 1, 2, Hamburg
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ReR Megacorp are now reluctantly selling individual volumes from the Box Sets, go to:

http://www.rermegacorp.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Store_Code=RM&Screen=CURRENTUPDATE

and scroll down...
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To welcome new neighbours, "Extract from "With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star" softly, programmed to play 16 times.
If this doesn't win them over nothing will!
And I owe it all to you guys! Thanks a million!!
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Originally posted by Flight123 Flight123 wrote:

Change of subject - anyone off to the Slapp Happy shows this weekend in London?  (I was too late to get a ticket - all three shows long sold out).  If so, any chance of a quick review?

Going to see them at RIO this year so I'm really looking forward to that.
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I remember there was a store called Discophile on 8th St., in Manhattan.  They specialized in European imports of (mostly) classical with a little jazz.  At the urging of one of their staff members, in 1973 they got in a few UK rock imports, including the entire tranche of original Virgin albums a couple of months before some of them were released in the US.  I picked up Tubular Bells, Flying Teapot, Faust IV, Kevin Coyne's Marjory Razorblade (original UK double LP), a few others - and Legend.  I was blown away by the Cow and the Gong and became an instant fan of both bands.  I have everything HC ever released, including the 40th Anniversary Box Set.  I saw them once in Brussels in 1974.

I bought Guitar Solos and all of the Caroline releases for a time.  The first time I saw Fred solo was performing Kew Rhone with Peter Blegvad, John Greaves & Lisa Herman at the Zu Club (aka the garage of Giorgio Gomelsky's brownstone) in Chelsea in Manhattan.  At The Kitchen, solo, with John Zorn and with the Guitar Quartet.  At The Knitting Factory with Naked City and in a quartet with Blegvad, Greaves & Cutler.  At Studio 54(!) with Massacre.  And with Skeleton Crew (both duet & trio) and CBGBs and Squat.  I have both films Step Across the Border & Middle of the Moment on DVD, and maybe about half of his solo albums and collaborations (there are SO! many).

I've never seen Slapp Happy (although I've seen Peter a lot) or Dagmar, who wasn't with HC when I saw them.  I'm utterly heartbroken that I couldn't see the London concerts.
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Change of subject - anyone off to the Slapp Happy shows this weekend in London?  (I was too late to get a ticket - all three shows long sold out).  If so, any chance of a quick review?
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Originally posted by DeadSouls DeadSouls wrote:

Fantastic short animation, features improvised music from Unrest, it works very well. Thumbs Up


Very interesting! While there are only bits of Henry Cow material to be heard here (and working very well together with the film), I really enjoy the soundtrack as a whole. This music is excellent. And so is the animation itself - very good stuff. Thanks a lot for sharing that one. Smile
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I did think of bypassing their second album and going straight for In Praise Of Learning, but Leg End still showing me new stuff. I'm at the point where I can recognise where is track starts and the other ends. Really looking to get to the point where I can play a few bars of each in my head (Which considering the amount of changes in the tunes!) upon looking at the title.
Henry Cow being appreciated right now!

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Mahler and Cow. A love story.

Résultat de recherche dimages pour "mahler and cow"
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Fantastic short animation, features improvised music from Unrest, it works very well. Thumbs Up
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