A COW CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

Henry Cow

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3.86 | 9 ratings | 1 reviews | 22% 5 stars

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Boxset/Compilation, released in 2009

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Pre-Virgin Demo (3:55)
2. Pre-Virgin Demo (1:02)
3. Unidentified Improvisation 1 (1:30)
4. Unidentified Improvisation 2 (5:37)
5. Unidentified Late Composition (2:04)
6. Exploded Amygdala / Teen Introduction (3:37)
7. Lovers of Gold (6:29)
8. Hamburg 6 (5:33)
9. Ruins Extract (8:24)
10. Hamburg 7 (9:44)
11. Half the Sky (5:03)
12. Extract from the Glove (2:19)

Total Time 55:17

Line-up / Musicians

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Releases information

CD, UK - ReR Megacorp (HC 1000)

Limited edition of 1000 copies. Originally a free CD given to subscribers of the Henry Cow 40th Anniversary Box. Remaining copies were later available for purchase separately to non-subscribers.

Track 1-2: recorded in rehearsal in 1972
Track 3-6: extracted from tapes run from mixing desk.
Track 7: out take from "In Praise of Learning" in 1984
Track 8-10: NDR Jazz Workshop concert in Hamburg March 26, 1976
Track 11: In concert at Sendesaal Studio F, Radio Bremen March 22, 1978
Track 12: extract from "Unrest" out take in 1984.

Thanks to TCat for the addition
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HENRY COW A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities ratings distribution

3.86
(9 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music (22%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection (44%)
Good, but non-essential (11%)
Collectors/fans only (11%)
Poor. Only for completionists (11%)

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Review by Warthur
PROG REVIEWER

Originally made as a free gift to subscribers of the 40th Anniversary Henry Cow box, before being made available separately and bundled in the Cow Box Redux, this is a grab-bag of material which didn't fit anywhere else either on their studio albums or on the various archival live releases the Cow has put out. Material ranges from early demos from before they'd even signed to Virgin to latter-day live material, the latest of which comes from a Radio Bremen appearance hailing from the period after the sessions that eventually got released as the first Art Bears album and before the sessions that gave rise to Western Culture, Henry Cow's swansong.

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