How my friends think the music I listen to is written
How my friends think the music I listen to is written
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
How is Guapo’s History of the Visitation? I see that just went up on Bandcamp.
Np. Henry Cow : 40th Anniversary Box Vol.6: Stockholm & Goteborg
Stockholm & Goteborg... the single best live cd of Henry Cow? I think so. At least today.
My progressive music site: https://pienemmatpurot.com/ Reviews in English: https://pienemmatpurot.com/in-english/
I think its a wonderful album, I rank it second to 5 Suns in their discography. Make sure you get the CD-DVD version from Cuneiform as it includes the 5 Sun performance from Nearfest which is worth the price of admission alone.
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.co...the-visitation
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
My progressive music site: https://pienemmatpurot.com/ Reviews in English: https://pienemmatpurot.com/in-english/
From the boxset it's probably Bremen ("New Suite"!) or Trondheim for me. I really dislike the manner in which they have sectioned "Erk Gah" into several parts on the Stockholm CD, although the music obviously runs continuously either way. But overall I think "Untitled Piece" by Lindsay Cooper is possibly my fave from the entire set; that work is supposedly merely in its embryonic stage of arrangement and rehearsal when they taped it, yet it's probably one of the most advanced things ever attempted by a rock group at that point.
Side A of the original Concerts double album was their Peel session and arguably the single finest recording they ever accomplished. But it comes across as a studio piece, to my ears. Frith's guitar solo here is to my mind one of the most spine-chilling series of notes executed, even more so than Fripp's in "Prince Rupert's Lament". I get goosebumps just from thinking of it.
Last edited by Scrotum Scissor; 02-19-2021 at 11:08 AM.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
The long-winded ending of that piece, which may I add comes out as far less obviously perfectionist than much composed Cow (for instance the whipped, clean guitar chords at the start of "Gloria Gloom"), remains some of my fave music by absolutely anyone. The carefully ascending heavier-than-life bass, the sludgy yet thoroughly punctuated drumming pattern, and the backing of distant organ and winds - before those devastating piano chords return - this is truly stunning.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
My most often played Henry Cow album is Unrest. I have only love towards that staggeringly good album.
My progressive music site: https://pienemmatpurot.com/ Reviews in English: https://pienemmatpurot.com/in-english/
^ My personal fave as well. It used to be Western Culture, but in the end I found Unrest unbeatable. I can hear it many times in a row and still not get enough, and not because I keep 'discovering new things on each listening' but simply for the sheer fascination of how this was still basically a rock group performing.
"Ruins", to me, was a completely mind-altering realization when I first discovered the Cow and and finally grasped the song. It's essentially different and more radical from everything I knew up 'till then (including Zappa), yet from the very start it appeared to answer questions I somehow hadn't even got around to asking.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Henry Cow is the wurst music I've ever heard. They can't even tune their guitahs and they all play different songs at the sames times. They need to listen to some DC/AC or Leonard Skinherd to learn hows to play some real grooves.
Love all of their albums to death but I could NEVER live without Legend. Every album brings something different to the party so its difficult for me to try to rank or compare them, like comparing Joe's Garage, Civilization, Studio Tan, Burnt Weeny, etc....too fuckin hard and all essential. I still likes Skinherds grooves mores, though.
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Western Culture is easily their best - for the reason that the band didn't believe in it. Because Henry Cow was all about discord - and discord reached a peak there.
As for the live stuff Trondheim wipes everything out. For the same reason: it wasn't meant to happen.
(also credits for Trondheim, because godforsaken Olympiakos team was humiliated there some 20 years ago losing to Rosenborg 0 to 5.)
Some bands get along well AND work together sympathetically
Some bands don't get along but generally appreciate what the others do bring to the table and work together sympathetically
Some bands mostly really dislike each other and work together in a way that makes them greater than the sum of their parts because they are all pushing each other specifically because they don't like each other.
Bandz is a tough job. I've worked with all the three above and more.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
I would say that HC belongs in the 3rd category. For me, they should have stuck together no matter the cost. Art Bears gave us some incredible, outstanding music. Fred has been doing fantastic music on his own, and with numerous projects, the last 40 years. News from Babel albums are amazing. Yet nothing comes near the Henry Cow laboratory, in my own opinion.
The fact that Western Culture is the product of a band that already was gone is the evidence I bring to support my statement. On the surface, this is a record that had to been done to get over with it. And yet it sounds so much more accomplished than everything that preceded it. The sum of its parts does not make for this sort of perfection.
The Faust Tapes....good thing my wife is at work.
Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
One of my fave parts from The World Is a Problem is that tiny bit where John Greaves leaves and/or is made to leave the band and stacks up in one of Richard Branson's apartments and enjoys the Brans' bathtub and his expensive wines and pokes his nose at the desolate fate of his ol' comrades eating veggie salad and drinking cucumber-juice in "the band van". I mean, if THIS was the preset for his making of Kew. Rhone it was most certainly worth it.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
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