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Radar Favourites: Radar Favourites
by Nic Jones
Full credit is due to Mike King and Reel Recordings for this exercise in historical reclamation. For a brief period back in the mid-1970s, Radar Favourites was a band with a pedigree. For one thing, it was saxophonist Geoff Leigh's first venture after his departure from Henry Cow, while guitarist G.F. Fitz-Gerald was responsible for the ...
George Cartwright: Barrier Islands Bird
by Gordon Marshall
George Cartwright can't be forgotten. The triple sax threat is part of the archaeology of modern New York. The downtown scene, just like New Orleans or 52 Street, has its mythology, and, as much as John Zorn, Cartwright figures in that, having come to the city fresh out of The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, New ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by John Kelman
Probably the most curious reaction guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, when it debuted at the 2008 International Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, was that it was “too melodic." Detractors of that show will likely be equally nonplussed by the group's overdue debut disc, Ragged Atlas, but it'll be their loss, as Frith's first “rock band" in ...
Fred Frith: Mapping the Further Reaches
by Nic Jones
Multi-instrumentalist/composer Fred Frith occupies a unique niche. As a charter member of Henry Cow, a band for which improvisation was always an integral part of musical expression, he was partly responsible for some of the most radical music ever to have emerged from beneath the rock umbrella.So much so, in fact, that ...
Cosa Brava: Ragged Atlas
by Mark Corroto
In the last forty years, no one has been about to categorize just what exactly Fred Frith music is. His seminal early work with the British prog-rock band Henry Cow--along with the likes of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart--developed the idea rock artists could also be accomplished and serious musicians. Later he founded the New York ...
Steve Norton: Debris and Beyond
by Gordon Marshall
Multi-reedist Steve Norton is best known for his work with the 1990s Boston-based band Debris. Debris was an ambitious, exuberant, puzzling band that puzzled together serialism, free jazz and funk. Their music is in equal measure exhilarating and exhausting. It was the combination, in part, that burned Norton out about ten years ago, as ...
Geoff Leigh / Yumi Hara: Upstream
by Nic Jones
The former Yumi Hara Cawkwell is obviously intent on fashioning her own musical territory, if this and her previous Moonjune release --Dune (2008), as one half of a duo with the late bassist Hugh Hopper--are anything to go by. Her partner here is one-time Henry Cow member Geoff Leigh, whose concentration on the flute for a ...
The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
By Henry Cow
Label: ReR Megacorp
Released: 2009
Track listing: CD1 (Beginnings): Pre-Teenbeat I; Pre-Teenbeat II; Rapt in a Blanket; Came to See
You;
Amygdala extract (pre-Legend demo); Teenbeat; Citizen King; Nirvana for Moles;
With
the Yellow Half Moon and Blue Star: Introduction, Invocation, Demi-Lune Jaune, Three Little
Steps,
Red Riff, Chorale Flautando, Cycling Over the Cliff, First Light; Guider Tells of Silent Airborne
Machine: Olwyn Grainger, Betty McGowan, Lottie Hare.
CD2 (Early 2): Introduction; Ruins I; Half Asleep, Half Awake; Ruins II;
Nix;
Halsteren: Halsteren I, Solo 1, Solo Extension 1, Halsteren 2, Halsteren 3, First Suspension,
Extension 2, Extension 3, Solo 2, Solo Extension 2, Halsteren 4, Second Suspension, Extension
4,
Solo 3, Solo Extension 3, Halsteren 5, Living in the Heart of the Beast (Parts 1-9).
CD3 (Hamburg): Fair as the Moon (Song of Solomon 6.10); Nirvana for
Rabbits; Ottawa Song; Twilight Bridge; Gloria Gloom; Hamburg 1; Hamburg 2; Red Noise 10;
Hamburg 3; Hamburg 4; Hamburg 5; Terrible As an Army with Banners; A Heart; Little Red
Riding
Hood Hits the Road; We Did It Again.
CD4 (Trondheim 1): Trondheim I (Parts 1-10).
CD5 (Trondheim 2): Trondheim II (Parts 1-6); The March.
CD6: (Stockholm & Goteborg): Stockholm I; Erk Gah (aka Hold to the
Zero
Burn) Parts 1-5; A Bridge to Ruins; Ottawa Song; Goteborg I Parts 1-3; No More Songs;
Stockholm
2; March.
CD7 (Later and Post-Virgin): Joan; Teenbeat 2; Would You Prefer Us to
Lie?;
Untitled Piece; Chaumont 1; Chaumont 2; March; Brain Storm Over Barnsley; Teenbeat 3;
Post-
Teen Auditorium Invasion; Bucket Waltz; On Suicide.
CD8 (Bremen): Armed Maniac/Things We Forgot; Herring; Viva Pa Ubu
instrumental extract; The Big Tune Begins; The Big Tune Continues; The Big Tune Ends;
March.
CD9 (Late): Joy of Sax; Jackie-ing; Untitled 2; The Herring People; RIO
Parts 1-4; Half the Sky; Virgins of Illinois; Viva Pa Ubu.
DVD (Vevey): Beautiful As an Army with Banners 1; Vevey 1; Beautiful
As
an Army with Banners 2; No More Songs; Living in the Heart of the Beast; Vevey 2; March; Erk
Gah.
National Health: National Health / Of Queues and Cures
by John Kelman
Keyboardist Dave Stewart first emerged with Uriel and Egg--two early Canterbury groups that initially expanded on the psychedelia of earlier progenitor Soft Machine but ultimately created their own space where rock, classical and even hints of jazz music met. But Stewart truly hit his stride with Hatfield and the North, whose two Virgin albums--the impressive Hatfield ...
