The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set

Infobox Album | Name = The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
Type = box
Artist = Henry Cow


Released = December 2008
Recorded = 1971–1978
Genre = Avant-progressive rock
Length =
Label = Recommended (UK)
Producer = Henry Cow
Reviews =
Last album = "Stockholm & Göteborg"
(2008)
This album = "The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set"
(2008)
Next album = –

"The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set" is an upcoming nine-CD plus one-DVD box set by English avant-garde rock group Henry Cow, scheduled to be released by Recommended Records in December 2008. It consists entirely of previously unreleased live recordings made between 1971 and 1978, and includes new compositions and improvisations, one-off projects and events, radio broadcasts, and live versions of some of Henry Cow's studio material. The original recordings were remastered by Bob Drake.

The box set is split into two volumes, each in its own box.
*"Volume 1" consists of five CDs and a book, and covers the period 1971 to 1976. Included is the March 1976 Hamburg radio show that was John Greaves’s last concert with the band, and the Trondheim concert that followed in May where Henry Cow performed as a quartet.
*"Volume 2" consists of four CDs, a DVD and a book, and covers the period 1976 to 1978. Included is the March 1978 Bremen radio broadcast and the May 1977 Swedish Radio broadcast. The DVD is 80 minutes of Henry Cow in 1976 (with Georgie Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many unreleased pieces as well as material from the original Henry Cow LPs.

One of the CDs in "Volume 2" is "Stockholm & Göteborg" (over an hour of extracts from Swedish Radio broadcasts), which was released in September 2008 as a teaser to the box set. Featured on "Stockholm" is "Erk Gah", a 17-minute composition by Tim Hodgkinson that was performed live regularly by the band between 1976 and 1978, [ cite web |url=http://calyx.club.fr/bands/chrono/henrycow.html |title=Henry Cow chronology |work=The Canterbury Music Website |accessdate=2008-07-09 ] but never recorded in the studio. [ cite web |url=http://www.ccutler.com/ccutler/bands/group03.shtml#artbears |title=Art Bears |work=Chris Cutler homepage |first=Chris, |last=Cutler |accessdate=2008-07-09 ] Hodgkinson later recorded it in 1993 under the title "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" with some of the former Henry Cow members and others, and released it in 1994 on his solo album, "Each in Our Own Thoughts".

Known track lists

"Stockholm & Göteborg" CD

#"Stockholm 1" (Born, Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Hodgkinson, Krause) – 6:38
#"Erk Gah" (aka "Hold to the Zero Burn") (Hodgkinson)
#*part 1 – 3:28
#*part 2 – 2:55
#*part 3 – 2:27
#*part 4 – 6:17
#*part 5 – 1:59
#"A Bridge to Ruins" (Hodgkinson) – 5:08
#"Ottawa Song" (Cutler, Frith) – 3:27
#"Göteborg 1" (Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Greaves, Hodgkinson, Krause)
#*part 1 – 6:06
#*part 2 – 8:20
#*part 3 – 2:27
#"No More Songs" (Ochs) – 3:35
#"Stockholm 2" (Born, Cooper, Cutler, Frith, Hodgkinson, Krause) – 6:13
#"The March" (Frith) – 4:15

DVD

#"Living in the Heart of the Beast" (Hodgkinson)
#"Beautiful as the Moon - Terrible as an Army with Banners" (Frith, Cutler)

Likely personnel

*Georgie Born
*Lindsay Cooper
*Chris Cutler
*Fred Frith
*John Greaves
*Tim Hodgkinson
*Dagmar Krause
*Geoff Leigh

References

* [http://www.somnius.com/amn/2008/07/08/henry-cow-40th-anniversary-boxed-set/ Avant Music News]
* [http://www.rermegacorp.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=RM&Product_Code=RERHCBOXALL&Category_Code=CU Recommended Records]