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

G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 10/03/25

I get stuck with an awful album by Dagmar Krause.

Favorite Videos include YOUNGBIN on It's Live, Rubio's Tiny Desk concert, and more!

https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-10-03-25

#Music #MusicVideo #1001Albums #DagmarKrause #YoungBin #ItsLive #Rubio #TinyDesk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysb-9lpNbjk

#music #DagmarKrause #HannsEisler

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

#nowplaying
Slapp Happy "Some questions about hats" 1975

#SlappHappy #DagmarKrause #rockinopposition #avantgarde #artrock #artpop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj7bM6pJXsk

#NowPlaying
Slap Happy "Small Hands of Stone"

Tender, quivering flower of a song

#SlapHappy #DagmarKrause #artpop #artrock #rockinopposition #rio

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

Slapp Happy’s Ça Va got me through Friday afternoon, and a whole lot more than that. Also, Donnie approves.

#SlappHappy #DagmarKrause #PeterBlegvad #AnthonyMoore #NowPlaying #AlwaysPlaying #CatsOfMastodon

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

#nowplaying
Art Bears "In Two Minds"

From Hopes And Fears, 1978

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

https://youtu.be/DkvB92a7X2I