2006 box set by Henry Cow
Henry Cow Box |
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Box set by Henry Cow |
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Released | December 2006 (2006-12) |
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Recorded | 1973–1978 |
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Genre | Avant-rock |
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Length | 329:47 |
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Label | Recommended (UK) |
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Producer | Henry Cow and others |
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Henry Cow chronology |
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Henry Cow Box is a seven-CD limited edition[nb 1] box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow. It was released in December 2006 by Recommended Records and comprises the six original albums Henry Cow released 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 two bonus CD Orckestra tracks were later reissued on the 2019 Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow bonus CD, Ex Box – Collected Fragments 1971–1978.
The CDs featured here are the 1998 to 2006 reissues by Recommended Records and contain the original LP mixes. (Remixed versions of Legend and In Praise of Learning were issued in 1991 by East Side Digital Records.) Concerts and Western Culture include the bonus tracks present on their respective CD reissues. The box set's album covers are CD-sized cardboard replicas of the original LP covers.
Cover art
The album cover art work was by artist Ray Smith and was originally used on Henry Cow's debut album, Legend (1973).
Track listings
Disc 1: Legend
Contains all the tracks (the US/Japanese vinyl mixes) from the Henry Cow LP Legend (1973).
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Nirvana for Mice" | Fred Frith | 4:53 |
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2. | "Amygdala" | Tim Hodgkinson | 6:47 |
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3. | "Teenbeat Introduction" | Henry Cow | 4:32 |
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4. | "Teenbeat" | Frith, John Greaves | 6:57 |
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5. | "Extract from 'With the Yellow Half-Moon and Blue Star'" | Frith | 3:37 |
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6. | "Teenbeat Reprise" | Frith | 5:07 |
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7. | "The Tenth Chaffinch" | Henry Cow | 6:06 |
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8. | "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King" | Hodgkinson | 5:34 |
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Disc 2: Unrest
Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow LP Unrest (1974).
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Bittern Storm over Ulm" | Fred Frith | 2:44 |
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2. | "Half Asleep; Half Awake" | John Greaves | 7:39 |
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3. | "Ruins" | Frith | 12:00 |
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4. | "Solemn Music" | Frith | 1:09 |
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5. | "Linguaphonie" | Henry Cow | 5:58 |
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6. | "Upon Entering the Hotel Adlon" | Henry Cow | 2:56 |
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7. | "Arcades" | Henry Cow | 1:50 |
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8. | "Deluge" | Henry Cow | 5:52 |
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Disc 3: Desperate Straights
Contains all the tracks from the Slapp Happy/Henry Cow LP Desperate Straights (1975).
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Some Questions about Hats" | Anthony Moore, Peter Blegvad | 1:49 |
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2. | "The Owl" | Moore | 2:14 |
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3. | "A Worm Is at Work" | Moore, Blegvad | 1:52 |
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4. | "Bad Alchemy" | John Greaves, Blegvad | 3:06 |
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5. | "Europa" | Moore, Blegvad | 2:48 |
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6. | "Desperate Straights" | Moore | 4:14 |
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7. | "Riding Tigers" | Blegvad | 1:43 |
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8. | "Apes in Capes" | Moore | 2:14 |
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9. | "Strayed" | Blegvad | 1:53 |
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10. | "Giants" | Moore, Blegvad | 1:57 |
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11. | "Excerpt from The Messiah" | George Frideric Handel, arr. Blegvad | 1:48 |
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12. | "In the Sickbay" | Dagmar Krause, Blegvad | 2:08 |
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13. | "Caucasian Lullaby" | Chris Cutler, Moore | 8:20 |
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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).
Discs 5 and 6: Concerts
Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow double LP (with Robert Wyatt) Concerts (1976), plus the Henry Cow tracks on the double LP Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall (1973).
Disk 6No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Oslo" - "Part 1"
- "Part 2"
- "Part 3"
- "Part 4"
- "Part 5"
- "Part 6"
- "Part 7"
- "Part 8"
| Henry Cow | 29:00 - 5:38
- 3:16
- 3:24
- 3:01
- 3:00
- 1:45
- 4:55
- 4:01
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9. | "Off the Map"
| Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith Hodgkinson Hodgkinson, Cutler, Frith | 8:23 |
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10. | "Café Royal" (solo guitar) | Frith | 3:20 |
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11. | "Keeping Warm in Winter" | Frith, Greaves | 1:00 |
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12. | "Sweet Heart of Mine" | Henry Cow | 8:58 |
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13. | "Udine" | Henry Cow | 9:39 |
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Disc 7: Western Culture
Contains all the tracks from the Henry Cow LP Western Culture (1979).
History and ProspectsNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded | Length |
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1. | "Industry" | Tim Hodgkinson | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 6:58 |
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2. | "The Decay of Cities" | Hodgkinson | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 6:55 |
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3. | "On the Raft" | Hodgkinson | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 4:01 |
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Day by DayNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded | Length |
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4. | "Falling Away" | Lindsay Cooper | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 7:38 |
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5. | "Gretels Tale" | Cooper | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 3:58 |
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6. | "Look Back" | Cooper | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 1:19 |
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7. | "½ the Sky" | Cooper, Hodgkinson | 15–29 January 1978 | 5:14 |
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Bonus tracksNo. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded | Length |
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8. | Untitled (silence only) | | | 1:29 |
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9. | "Viva Pa Ubu" | Hodgkinson | 15–29 January 1978 | 4:28 |
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10. | "Look Back (alt)" | Cooper | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 1:21 |
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11. | "Slice" | Cooper | 26 July – 8 August 1978 | 0:36 |
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Contains previously unreleased material taken from live performances in Europe by the Orckestra in March–May 1978. Given to advance subscribers of the box set.
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
Slapp Happy
The Orckestra
See also
- ^ 200 copies, box set liner notes.
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Studio albums | - Legend
- Unrest
- Western Culture
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