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Art Bears:
🎵 The Dance

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https://rermegacorp202.bandcamp.com/track/march-from-the-dance

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

AQSAK MABOUL
Un Peu De L'Âme Des Bandits
1980 Belgium pressing

Definitely one of the strangest records in my library, and one that’s certainly not for the average general music listener.

The personnel here features a healthy portion of the “Art Bears” crowd; Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, and Marc Hollander.

This is some demented and deeply experimental art rock; wide ranging in its vibe from classical, to Zappa, to French pop.
I’m happy to have an original press of this, as those who are familiar with it and love it had been clammering for a reissue of it for years, until Crammed Discs did one in 2018.

If you’re into weird shit, you’ll love it.

If you’re not, it’s going to be very difficult making it through to the second song.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcollection #art #music #vinylcommunity #retro #vintage #artrock #experimental #artrock #artbears #FredFrith #1980s #80s #80sMusic #artrock #aqsakmaboul

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

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Art Bears:
🎵 The Slave

#ArtBears

https://chriscutler2.bandcamp.com/track/art-bears-the-slave

https://open.spotify.com/track/1m95bAFpYY4FFehuH0X7ji

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Art Bears "In Two Minds"

From Hopes And Fears, 1978

#ArtBears #DagmarKrause #FredFrith #ChrisCutler #rio #rockinopposition #artrock #avant-garde

https://youtu.be/DkvB92a7X2I