• Glastonbury, and Elsewhere (Henry Cow Redux Box - addon packaging)

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  A further collection of missing pieces uncovered since the release of the 18 CD Henry Cow Box that fills in parts of the story still undocumented (even on the bootleg circuit)....
  
  Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao and the Lions of Desire!
  
  Intended primarily for box owners – designed to fit into the box - (with an alternate digipak format (for purists and owners of the original cow boxes) available as a standalone item.
  
  Glastonbury contains:
  
  • The earliest and only known stage recording of the band as it was in June 1972 (Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson) at the first Glastonbury Fayre. The recording is quite clean, though the mix heavily favours bass and guitar, which in a way makes it of special interest, both musically and historically.
  
  • The brief two-week iteration of Henry Cow from April 1978 that featured Fred, Tim, Chris and Phil Minton, and an eclectic programme that included a lot of Westbook/Orkhestra materials, none of which has been released before.
  
  • Taken from a concert in Bilbao in 1977, some otherwise unrecorded compositions from the late Cow repertoire bound into a typical mash up of different compositional snippets.
  
  • Further unusual extracts from the Chaumont concert in 1976, as well as a brief studio moment captured by a film crew during the recording of Half Awake, Half Asleep, in 1973.
  
  This collection supplements the 19-volume Henry Cow Redux Box set released in 2019. Further additions may follow.
  
  If purchasing this CD to be added to your copy of the 19-volume Henry Cow Redux Box set, you can do so directly from the listing on that item, at a reduced price (packaged with only the front and back cover in a compact plastic sleeve)
  
  Contents: 1: the earliest and only known stage recording of the band as it was in June 1972 (Martin Ditcham, Fred Frith, John Greaves and Tim Hodgkinson) at the first Glastonbury Fayre. The recording is quite clean, though the mix heavily favours bass and guitar but, in a way, this makes it of special interest, both musically and historically. 2, Then there’s the brief two-week iteration of Henry Cow from April 1978 featuring Fred, Tim, Chris and Phil Minton, with an eclectic programme that included a lot of Westbook/Orkhestra materials. 3.Taken from a concert in Bilbao, in 1977, some otherwise unrecorded compositions from the late Cow repertoire in a typical mash up of different snippets - as well as: 4, further unusual extracts from the Chaumont concert in 1976 and: 5, a brief studio moment captured by a film crew during the recording of Half Awake, Half Asleep, in 1973.
  
  These are not high fidelity recordings, but they are the only documentary evidence that survives of these configurations, and Bob Drake has worked wonders with them. Box Version has essentially the same artwork as digipak format, except square in orientation.
  
  Includes unlimited streaming of Glastonbury, Chaumont, Bilbao and the Lions of Desire via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. ... more
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• Glastonbury and Elsewhere (standalone Physical CD in digipak packaging)

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