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Titolo: Henry Cow

    HENRY COW
    40th ANNIVERSARY BOX SET Volumes 1 & 2
    9 CDs and 1 DVD with 2 substantial books - in two solid Boxes.
    LIMITED EDITION.
    Assembled over 15 years, this collection gives for the first time
    some idea of
    the breadth and depth of Henry Cow's work. Always very much a live
    band,
    performance was their metier, and a concert might range far - always
    driven by
    an intense dialogue between tightly knit compositions and radically
    open
    improvisation. The officially released LPs tell at best only half
    this story,
    and one purpose of this definitive collection is to set the work back
    into its
    broader context. These are all previously unreleased recordings, that
    include
    many compositions and improvisations new to anyone who only knows the
    official
    releases, documentation of a number of one-off projects and events
    and - where
    different or remarkable enough to justify inclusion - live versions
    of parts of
    the LP repertoire. Many of these recordings are high quality radio
    transcriptions taken directly from the original masters, others are
    less hi-fi,
    but justified we think by their historic and musical quality. And
    everything has
    been carefully transferred and re-mastered by Bob Drake to the best
    audio
    quality that current technology allows without interference or
    tampering. It's
    all a million times better than the terrible bootlegs that are
    swimming around.
    Altogether, these 9 CDs embody some extraordinary, and occasionally
    prescient
    music. Taking this box together with the officially released albums,
    it is
    possible at last to get some impression of the extensive ground Henry
    Cow
    covered in it's 10 short years. Finally, there is the DVD: 80 minutes
    of the
    1976 Cow (with Georgina Born and Dagmar Krause) performing many
    unreleased
    pieces as well as Living in the Heart of The Beast, Beautiful as the
    Moon &c.
    This is the only known video recording in existence - professionally
    made, multi
    camera - and has not been recovered since its original broadcast
    (just scour
    U-Tube, HC is conspicuous by its total absence). And last but not
    least, there
    is a great deal of written, photographic and textual documentation.
    Since this
    will probably be the last and definitive collection, it has to be
    thorough. For
    reasons of fairness and cost we have decided to split the set into
    two boxes -
    which can be bought separately or together. VOL 1 covers the period
    1971 to the
    1976 Hamburg radio show which documents John Greaves' last concert
    with the
    band, as well as the extraordinary Trondheim concert from the quartet
    tour that
    immediately followed. VOL 2 takes the story through to 1978 and
    includes more
    previously undocumented compositions as well as the Bremen radio
    recording. The
    Stockholm CD belongs to this second box, which also contains the DVD.
 
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    9 CDs and 1 DVD
Un chiodo nel culo arrugginito sarebbe meno doloroso.
rob 

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scritto:
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MI sa ke hai ragione, ma valeva la pena pubblicizzare il dvd visto che non
si trovano filmati in rete
sono anni ke non li sento più. come compositore il più interessante ex hc
ritengo sia frith.
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Libreria Lorici ha scritto:
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Parli di Wyatt?
Il box degli HC assomiglia piu' ad una scatola di ricci marini sulla
pancia, ed un fachiro che ci si siede sopra.
io_lavoro
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pancia, ed un fachiro che ci si siede sopra.
Semel in anno sono d'accordo con te senza remore.
Non lo comprerò.
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Mauro Moroni
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