Expanding on the history of Henry Cow in new recordings discovered after the 19-CD Cow Redux box, including: a well-recorded concert at the the first Glastonbury Fayre in 1972, the earliest recordings of the quartet of Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson; a 1978 grouping with Phil Minton; unrecorded compositions from 1977 in Bilbao; and a 1976 Chaumont Concert.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: UK Packaging: Digipack w/booklet Track 1 recorded at Glastonbury Fayre, UK, in 1972, by John Lundsten.
Track 2 recorded at Oxfordshire, UK, in 1973.
Track 3 recorded at Chaumont, Salles De Fetes, France, in 1976.
Track 4 recorded at Unknown Venue, France, 1977.
Track 5 recorded at Bilbao Teatro S. Vincente, Spain, in 1977.
3. The Road To Ruins (Chaumont, Salles De Fetes, 1976) 11:02
4. The Lions Of Desire [With Phil Minton] (France, Unknown Venue, 1977) 17:50
5. Bilbao, Teatro S. Vincente, 1977 13:03
sample the album:
descriptions, reviews, &c.
"A further collection of missing pieces uncovered since the release of the 18 CD Henry Cow Box that fills in parts of the story still undocumented (even on the bootleg circuit), Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao and the Lions of Desire contains: The earliest and only known stage recording of the band as it was in June 1972 (Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson) at the first Glastonbury Fayre. The recording is quite clean, though the mix heavily favours bass and guitar, which in a way makes it of special interest, both musically and historically.
The brief two-week iteration of Henry Cow from April 1978 that featured Fred, Tim, Chris and Phil Minton, and an eclectic programme that included a lot of Westbook/Orkhestra materials, none of which has been released before.
Taken from a concert in Bilbao in 1977, some otherwise unrecorded compositions from the late Cow repertoire bound into a typical mash up of different compositional snippets.
Further unusual extracts from the Chaumont concert in 1976, as well as a brief studio moment captured by a film crew during the recording of Half Awake, Half Asleep, in 1973.
This collection supplements the 19-volume Henry Cow Redux Box set released in 2019. Further additions may follow."-ReR Megacorp