#NowPlaying #FreeImprovisation #ExperimentalMusic #Haiku

Haiku In The Wide World by #TimHodgkinson & #AtsukoKamura (2025, ReR Megacorp)

“It was the self-contradicting aspect of these poems that gradually sank in. There was a change, but the old situation was still there. Some signs pointed one way, but other signs pointed the opposite way. Something still was in fact moving and something moving turned out to be still. It was difficult to see something. Two things were going on at the same time but without fitting together. An act of observation irremediably disturbed its object. There was a lack of a hoped-for connection. Something symbolic turned out not to symbolise anything. A single thing had two quite different effects. Aspects of the same object looked at one another with displeasure. And so on.”

https://timhodgkinson-atsukokamura.bandcamp.com/album/haiku-in-the-wide-world

#NowPlaying #MickHobbs #TimHodgkinson #TheWork #RockInOpposition

THE WORK - "Hell" from The 4th World CD (Ad Hoc Records, 2010; recorded 1994).

"The texts for the songs performed on this tour were montaged from art catalogues, sacred books, mistranslated poems, medical manuals, teaching materials, newspapers and play scripts."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEVnTnR9l6o

I find myself turning more and more to the music and ideas of Henry Cow these days, not to mention those of the myriad spheres and satellites orbiting their sun-gone-supernova. Hard to believe their remarkable first LP was released 50 years ago this month.

#HenryCow #AvantRock #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #TimHodgkinson #DagmarKrause #RockIsForEveryone

Return of the Cow.

Henry Now (Henry Cow) @ Teatro President Piacenza 18/11/22 LIVE EXCERPTS

Lineup:

John Greaves
Fred Frith
Chris Cutler
Tim Hodgkinson

#Music #HenryCow #HenryNow #FredFrith #JohnGreaves #ChrisCutler #TimHodgkinson

https://youtu.be/MndFeU6uf84