Re: art rock recommendations?

["David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

Rick -

My personal favorite HC was/is "In Praise Of Learning."

The odd thing is when I was growing up as a teen in the latter-half of the
70's in France this stuff was as hip and happening among the other "muso's"
as perhaps Stereolab is today.

Anyway, here's a Henry Cow chronology -- you'll see lots of bands that
listed that fell into the Henry Cow orbit.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/bands/chrono/henrycow.html

Some HC band history here...http://www.furious.com/perfect/henrycow.html

Or search closely here: http://www.ccutler.com/bands/group02.shtml and ask
Chris Cutler for recommendations. :-)

If you're not already familiar with them, try adding Robert Wyatt and Soft
Machine to your "exploration" list.

However I *strongly* support Chris Muir's MAGMA recommendation.  Now here 
is
a band whose work defies description.  Try getting Mekanik Destruktiw
Kommandoh (1973) or MAGMA LIVE (1975).  WOW!

David


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:48 PM
Subject: art rock recommendations?


> Somehow I completely missed out on the whole
> Henry Cow/Art Bears phenomenon.   I think I was really sick of
> prog rock at the time that they started making records so I foolishly
> dismissed them
> without ever even hearing them.   Ahhhhh, the follies of youth.
>
> Anyway,  a good friend of mine from this list, the looping
> trumpeteer/singer/multi-instrumentalist, George Demarest
> highly recommended that I check out Chris Cutler, the innovative drummer
> with some of those groups (who he just saw
> perform in Boston)  and I realized that I knew nothing about the whole
scene
> and wondered if anyone here would
> give me a desert Island disc list of 3-5 CDs that they think are the best
of
> this group of people.
>
> Any Henry Cow/Art Bears fans out there who want to initiate a newbie?
>
> eagerly anticipating a reply,   Rick
>