There's something so heroic about the sight of these ragged-looking musicians, three women and three men, standing and sitting in a muddy field in Switzerland in the middle of the night, doing this defiantly uncommercial music.
J'aime votre commentaire.. Il est beau comme la rencontre d'abord improbable, puis messianique d'un parapluie et d'une machine à coudre sur une table de dissection👑🥸😜
Thanks for this! I hung with Chris Cutler in London in 1982. He was with the Janus Circus later that summer when we tour Yugoslavia (before the wars). Loved Henry Cow.
Beyond the anarchies, HC denounced the apparent order and the paradoxes of an insensible world. Spiritual, sensory and rebellious, these poets for once not so cursed, reveals secret impostures, explores serene enjoyments, a world of rekindled dreams !!
Really very good indeed, love the way it builds. With the Cow, you could never see the joins between the totally improvised and the composed parts. Elsewhere on RUclips is an absolutely beautiful piece called 'A Little Prayer' played by Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie, it's well worth checking out.
Lovely to see this band again after so many years. That bass and percussion combination kicking into the theme (at 7.00 ish) always sends shivers down my spine
once i read an article named ''why chris cutler does'nt like robert fripp. I didn't know frith and fripp were at odds over something but now that you mentioned it i agree that it would be an interesting idea if they decided to make music together...especially now that the collaboration between RF and adrian belew seems to have come to an end
Подобно первым лучам сумерек, это звуковое произведение открывает глаза на давние обещания природы. Напоминая о силах, находящихся за пределами наблюдения, эти произведения тянут за струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают вихри, содранные жизни и оцепенение измученных наблюдателей 💫💦💥
Yeah, I read that she started playing electric bass specifically for Henry Cow, she'd only ever played Cello before that. She's no John Greaves, but she's got some chops!
Ah p'tting! ça fait du bien de revoir Cutler essayer de choper les mouches; un des plus meilleurs morceaux de ces extraterrestres; on savait vivre, à l'époque, et quelle(s) musique(s)! je revois encore leur vieux camion pourri, les tripes à l'air sur le parking de l'amphi Descartes à Poitiers, avant un concert de folie; merci Bernard (private joke inside)
I wish there were film of the Peel session that takes up side 1 of the vinyl version of Concerts, which was recorded much better than this. Also, not to denigrate Georgie Born's playing in any way, but I do prefer John Greaves.
Georgie (now Georgina) Born doesn't even play music anymore, as far as I know. Her most recent work was a book: a large and apparently painstakingly-researched academic critique of the decline of the BBC. It's supposed to be really good.
@CarolSuemoo If by 'timeless' you mean 'great', I agree with you; but it wouldn't be a word I would use to describe Henry Cow's music if I wanted to give people a sense of what it's like. Only in the late 60s/early 70s could a band like this have formed, got a record deal and become famous. Nowadays, such a band could form and release its own stuff, but it'd never become famous outside of a certain niche. Before the late 60s, this band would neither have got together nor got a record deal.
@lexo30 If it was bad, there wouldn't be anything heroic about it. You can get a lot of people with little talent and self-development doing "uncommercial" music. I think you should qualify your statement =)
if you don't dig this, no prob. go away, listen to Stockhausen, Boulez, Varése, and hell, Stravinsky, and return. I think you'll dig more. pity they broke up the track.
Hate to tell ya, at least one is a lesbian. Seriously, Cooper came out many years ago. I don't know about Born (the bassist), and I think Krause is straight.
true?! I thought Fripp and Frith were at odds over alledged copying each other's styles . Sad if true, they could make INCREDIBLE Music together, kind of like Steve Hackett and Tony Banks icy duo ?!
@CarolSuemoo Really? Maybe you're right, but I wonder if the Cow would have liked the idea that their music sounded that cosmic, or whatever. From what I've read of them they were doggedly political.
well no one can argue they weren't flawlessly correct. trillions of crimes and pain and suffering under capitalism and greed. even the religious folks ALL say we godless commies are right about everything. (EVEN the GOP worships the hippy commie Christ!)
@@duffbaker9554 DEAR IGNORANT CHILD, please cite all the pain and suffering CAUSED BY THE COMMUNIST FIRE DEPARTMENTS. See? Took me ONE SENTENCE to prove you are insincere and just parrot what the billionaire-owned press TOLD YOU. YOU ARE SO INTELLECTUALLY LAZY, that you don't realize there has NEVER BEEN a communist nation, you phony. EX: The USSR was "communist" the same way Amerikkka and North Korea are "DEMOCRACIES". (ex: it's LITERALLY a fact that the taxpayers do NOT choose the president, ya lemming. The political hacks of the Electoral College do.) WATCH ME PROVE YOU THINK YOU'RE LYING: PLEASE EXPLAIN why the USSA has to PAY RUSSIA in 2019 to fly Amerikkkan astronauts to the ISS. PLEASE EXPLAIN why Amerikkka PAYS COMMUNIST CHINA $1 BILLION EVERY DAY (!!!).... just for the INTEREST PAYMENTS on the National Debt. I can't wait to hear you explain why CAPITALIST america had to borrow the most money on earth. ("Capitalism works so well, that you have to borrow money every day to survive!") ("Communism is so FAILED, that all capitalists HAVE TO BEG THE COMMIES TO LEND US MONEY!")
There's something so heroic about the sight of these ragged-looking musicians, three women and three men, standing and sitting in a muddy field in Switzerland in the middle of the night, doing this defiantly uncommercial music.
I can't imagine this happening now, especially in the UK!
日本語で失礼しますが、彼らのスイスでのライブ動画は、大変貴重で、ここにはヘンリーカウのほぼ全員のメンバーが認められ、すばらしい演奏を聴くことができます。あまり日本では、多く知られていないけど、彼らこそカンタベリーロックの行きついた先で、プログレシブロックを音楽的にも高い存在にできたグループでした。この後、このグループが解散した後の個々人の活動や、RIOと呼ばれる一連の各国のグループの発掘活動が、どれほど多くのグループに光を当てたかを思うとき、彼らの偉大な演奏をここで聴くことができるのは、ただただ感激しかないです。ありがとう。
J'aime votre commentaire.. Il est beau comme la rencontre d'abord improbable, puis messianique d'un parapluie et d'une machine à coudre sur une table de dissection👑🥸😜
I discovered this ages ago.
Didn't like it.
Started listening to contemporary classical music and atonal music.
Came back.
Now I LOVE IT
I hear you. Some music you need context.
This is unbelievably great. Henry Cow are truly musical pioneers and have been for a long time. I admire these musicians so very much.
Phenomenal clip, what an amazing group they were, groundbreaking in so many ways.
Thanks for this! I hung with Chris Cutler in London in 1982. He was with the Janus Circus later that summer when we tour Yugoslavia (before the wars). Loved Henry Cow.
Beyond the anarchies, HC denounced the apparent order and the paradoxes of an insensible world. Spiritual, sensory and rebellious, these poets for once not so cursed, reveals secret impostures, explores serene enjoyments, a world of rekindled dreams !!
Now, and some probable Then, perhaps. The next excursion is, or, will be, in another realitiy's tomorrow. Now.
Holy Cow, how intense and beautiful, glad to finally "see" them, nothing like them!
+brotzmannsax
and Wholly Chao!
Thank you. I didn't discover Henry Cow until the early 90s, when I was in my early 20s, but they seemed to fill a need that I'd never known I had...
If this is where all the weirdoes go I'm fucking glad I went there too.
Chris Cutler has played stunningly with David Thomas and the Pedestrians et al---just brilliant!
thanks for posting this timeless, wonderful and mildly bonkers clip..always loved them and one of the very few bands that never let me down. salut'
Lindsay Cooper RIP
Parfois je perds la raison quand j'écoute la magie de cela encore & encore !!!!!!!
こんなものが観れるなんて・・・ 感動としか言いようが無い・・・
This is a better version than the Concerts version.
And it is interesting to finally see some video of the band.
Really very good indeed, love the way it builds. With the Cow, you could never see the joins between the totally improvised and the composed parts. Elsewhere on RUclips is an absolutely beautiful piece called 'A Little Prayer' played by Fred Frith and Evelyn Glennie, it's well worth checking out.
I never knew it was Frith on the Piano @6:30 on. Damn, what a wonderful improv group they were.
Lovely to see this band again after so many years. That bass and percussion combination kicking into the theme (at 7.00 ish) always sends shivers down my spine
Just magnificent!
alltough an overall great piece, the last 3 minutes clearly show the quality gap between their improvisational skills and their structured music.
once i read an article named ''why chris cutler does'nt like robert fripp. I didn't know frith and fripp were at odds over something but now that you mentioned it i agree that it would be an interesting idea if they decided to make music together...especially now that the collaboration between RF and adrian belew seems to have come to an end
fantastic, what else to say, this is amazing
This is wonderful. I LIKED the piano sound at the beginning. Jeez people, get over the need for perfect acoustics!
MUSICA DE ROCK RIO EN SU GRANDEZA -- PUROS MUSICOS VIRTUOSOS -- MAGNÍFICOS --
interesting that georgie born sits as if she has a cello but is playing electric bass
After this song they did 'Louie Louie' ! Kidding RIO finest artistes
Подобно первым лучам сумерек, это звуковое произведение открывает глаза на давние обещания природы. Напоминая о силах, находящихся за пределами наблюдения, эти произведения тянут за струны сердца, вызывают ностальгию и пробуждают вихри, содранные жизни и оцепенение измученных наблюдателей 💫💦💥
Yeah, I read that she started playing electric bass specifically for Henry Cow, she'd only ever played Cello before that. She's no John Greaves, but she's got some chops!
@LittleDrummerBoy234
her bass is actually tuned as a cello
Seriously, what a fuckin awesome groove they kick into around 6:38. My god, I could Iet them just run an eternity, just like that!
Excellently put! I couldn't agree more!
I am not so sure if the word DELICIOUS can apply to free improvisation... but I 'll say it anyway...
Drummer reminds me of one of the guys from the 80s tv series Fridays.
Is that the Chris Cutler aerobic workout?
This is so so so good!!
Ah p'tting! ça fait du bien de revoir Cutler essayer de choper les mouches; un des plus meilleurs morceaux de ces extraterrestres; on savait vivre, à l'époque, et quelle(s) musique(s)!
je revois encore leur vieux camion pourri, les tripes à l'air sur le parking de l'amphi Descartes à Poitiers, avant un concert de folie;
merci Bernard (private joke inside)
merci, superbe !
One could get a wicked slice from Chris' crash cymbal.
The anarchist's Abba.
The Cow on RUclips?!?
Hath Hell frozen over?
Those last 3 seconds were rather depressing.
Love it!!
I wish there were film of the Peel session that takes up side 1 of the vinyl version of Concerts, which was recorded much better than this. Also, not to denigrate Georgie Born's playing in any way, but I do prefer John Greaves.
Georgie (now Georgina) Born doesn't even play music anymore, as far as I know. Her most recent work was a book: a large and apparently painstakingly-researched academic critique of the decline of the BBC. It's supposed to be really good.
@CarolSuemoo If by 'timeless' you mean 'great', I agree with you; but it wouldn't be a word I would use to describe Henry Cow's music if I wanted to give people a sense of what it's like. Only in the late 60s/early 70s could a band like this have formed, got a record deal and become famous. Nowadays, such a band could form and release its own stuff, but it'd never become famous outside of a certain niche. Before the late 60s, this band would neither have got together nor got a record deal.
I see someone got their 40th Anniversary Box Set.
Such a shame about Lindsey Cooper but she's still composing. I saw Chris Cutler several years ago at an art space in DC and he was amazing as always.
@lexo30 If it was bad, there wouldn't be anything heroic about it. You can get a lot of people with little
talent and self-development doing "uncommercial" music. I think you should qualify your statement =)
Is thus free improvisation part called electro acoustic?
if you don't dig this, no prob. go away, listen to Stockhausen, Boulez, Varése, and hell, Stravinsky, and return. I think you'll dig more. pity they broke up the track.
若いしみんなうまいし、いいですね！ライブは。
Sounds like Magma last few minutes, hope it's not as evil as it sounds .
Hate to tell ya, at least one is a lesbian.
Seriously, Cooper came out many years ago. I don't know about Born (the bassist), and I think Krause is straight.
thats so cool
true?! I thought Fripp and Frith were at odds over alledged copying each other's styles . Sad if true, they could make INCREDIBLE Music together, kind of like Steve Hackett and Tony Banks icy duo ?!
Fripp and Frith don't sound anything alike, so that's weird.
FRITH is far more mad-scientist than Fripp was.
@CarolSuemoo Really? Maybe you're right, but I wonder if the Cow would have liked the idea that their music sounded that cosmic, or whatever. From what I've read of them they were doggedly political.
"let Ends Begin"................93
I cannot get the lyrics because my languange ability,what the lyric tells us?
@lexo30 It's punk man!
Fucking rad.
@paramind Duly noted, but I'm not going to. :)
FRED FRITH likes to play sitting down... like ROBERT FRIPP...
OOPS ! I said the FORBITTEN NAME ! CHRIS CUTLER doesn't like RF !
Love the Cow, hate their politics.
well no one can argue they weren't flawlessly correct.
trillions of crimes and pain and suffering under capitalism and greed.
even the religious folks ALL say we godless commies are right about everything. (EVEN the GOP worships the hippy commie Christ!)
No crimes and pain and suffering under communism and greed? Um, right.
@@duffbaker9554 And Empire Goodness, for that matter: what do state socialism (communism) and state capitalism have in common?
@@duffbaker9554 DEAR IGNORANT CHILD, please cite all the pain and suffering CAUSED BY THE COMMUNIST FIRE DEPARTMENTS.
See?
Took me ONE SENTENCE to prove you are insincere and just parrot what the billionaire-owned press TOLD YOU.
YOU ARE SO INTELLECTUALLY LAZY, that you don't realize there has NEVER BEEN a communist nation, you phony.
EX:
The USSR was "communist" the same way Amerikkka and North Korea are "DEMOCRACIES".
(ex: it's LITERALLY a fact that the taxpayers do NOT choose the president, ya lemming. The political hacks of the Electoral College do.)
WATCH ME PROVE YOU THINK YOU'RE LYING:
PLEASE EXPLAIN why the USSA has to PAY RUSSIA in 2019 to fly Amerikkkan astronauts to the ISS.
PLEASE EXPLAIN why Amerikkka PAYS COMMUNIST CHINA $1 BILLION EVERY DAY (!!!).... just for the INTEREST PAYMENTS on the National Debt.
I can't wait to hear you explain why CAPITALIST america had to borrow the most money on earth.
("Capitalism works so well, that you have to borrow money every day to survive!")
("Communism is so FAILED, that all capitalists HAVE TO BEG THE COMMIES TO LEND US MONEY!")
NO