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Had she lived, #LindsayCooper would have turned 75 yesterday. She was my favourite #HenryCow member, both in terms of her distinctive woodwind contributions but also her astounding compositional ideas - see Western Culture, side 2. Still, I reckon her post-Cow work is even better. The beautiful scores she wrote for various #SallyPotter-directed projects stand as some of the best politically-engaged #experimentalmusic of the 80s. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSNq8HTGpSk

Happy 77th birthday to the one-and-only Fred Frith, born #OTD in 1949. Unique in the field, he has experimental music he has produced a staggering body of work, both solo and in collaboration with so many others, across almost 60 years.

It was a real highlight to see him live in Glasgow last May: the sense of space, the sense of play, the sense of reaching beyond.

#FredFrith #HenryCow #ElectricGuitar #ExperimentalMusic #ImprovisedMusic #NewMusic #ExtendedTechniques @ExperimentalMusic @improvisedmusic

Hopes and Fears is the debut album by the English avant-rock group Art Bears. It comprises tracks by Henry Cow, Art Bears's predecessor... in January 1978, and tracks by Art Bears... in March 1978.

...It also shows Frith experimenting with eastern European folk music on "Moeris, Dancing",[6] which he explored further on some of his subsequent solo albums, particularly Gravity (1980) and Speechless (1981).

Stewart Mason wrote at AllMusic that the album's longest track, "In Two Minds" is the closest Art Bears came to playing "conventional rock music". When Cutler was asked in an interview in 2004 whether the song was a "homage" to the Who, he replied, "It would be hard to deny the connection. It is so obviously a reference. I was certainly directly influenced in my youth by The Who – and in particular by Keith Moon." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-yz4q7OXEE&list=RD0-yz4q7OXEE&start_radio=1

#ArtBears #HenryCow #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #DagmarKrause #RIO #Music #AvantRock #PostPunk #LindsayCooper

“[W]hat’s always fascinating is that sometimes you think you know what something sounds like and do the thing that produces the sound you think you will get, and then you don’t get it. There are always variabilities, variations, and things you didn’t expect… They always lead you to explore something differently. I think the joy is in the fact that even though my vocabulary is relatively static, what happens, without fail, always brings me to places I haven’t been before. I don’t know why, but it happens. I think it has to do with having an understanding that when something unexpected happens, you can make it into something interesting.”- Fred Frith

https://postgenre.org/normal-fred-frith-i/

#fredfrith #guitar #sologuitar #roulette #improvisedmusic #music #art #postgenre #postgenremusic #postgenremedia #preparedguitar #guitarsolos #henrycow #rock #nakedcity #interview #rouletteintermedium

Happy 75. #birthday to Dagmar Krause!

"Her unusual singing style makes her voice instantly recognisable and has defined the sound of many of the bands with whom she has worked."

A very short one with the legendary Henry Cow:
https://youtu.be/X7coxuzEG1M

#music #dagmarkrause #henrycow #slapphappy #artbears #brecht #weill #eisler