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01. HENRY COW - History & Prospects: Industry
02. HENRY COW - History & Prospects: The Decay of Cities
03. HENRY COW - History & Prospects: On the Raft
04. HENRY COW - Day By Day: Falling Away
05. HENRY COW - Day By Day: Gretel's Tale
06. HENRY COW - Day By Day: Look Back
07. HENRY COW - Day By Day: Half the Sky
08. HENRY COW - Viva Pa Ubu
09. HENRY COW - Look Back (alt)
10. HENRY COW - Slice
ARTIST
TITLE
Western Cuiture
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
RER HC4 RER HC4
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
2/14/2005

"This is the 4th in ReR's series of Henry Cow re-releases, which traces the career of this most influential of experimental rock groups. Following their split with Virgin, the group's history became complicated; bass player John Greaves left, and after a dispute in the recording studio, what was intended as the next Henry Cow album mutated into the Art Bears' much respected Hopes and Fears. In 1978 the members of the Cow agreed to stay together under the Cow banner for a final six months of touring. They decided to record a final album of entirely new music, written by Tim Hodgkinson and Lindsay Cooper -- and that album was Western Culture. It's one of their very best. Titles like 'Industry', 'The Decay of Cities', and 'Falling Away' hurl the listener into a dark world of additive time signatures, spooky organ interludes, and complex instrumental textures. The invigorating blast of energy suggests a new vision of part classical, part Industrial, part Brechtian rock chamber music. Like a minimal, concentrated re-vision of the old Henry Cow, it prefigures the terrifying structures of 80's iconic rock group This Heat. For the first time the group was happy with their recorded sound. Western Culture has been digitally re-mastered, and the CD sounds better than ever before. The booklet is crammed with previously unpublished photographs and biographical material, and there are three extra tracks which have only appeared before on the ReR vinyl magazine."