HENRY COW LIVE IN VEVEY 1976

Year: 1976

Time: 75 mins

Music

Chris Cutler: drums

Dagmar Krause: vocals

Georgie Born: bass, cello

Tim Hodgkinson: organ, alto sax, clarinet

Lindsay Cooper: bassoon, oboe, recorder, piano, saxes

Fred Frith: guitar, tubular bells, piano, violin, xylophone 

Eye of Sound: Recorded for a swiss TV show called Kaleidospop in August 1976, this is said to be Henry Cow's only video recording. Working on the still vacant outskirts of avant-garde, jazz, rock, chamber music and what-not, Henry Cow added to this uncanny condensation the haunting and idiosyncratic vocals of Krause and surrealist lyrics, creating an unique sound universe which was never to be repeated. Floating with rich and colorful textures, bright as early dawn, yet intricately complex and sombre, the Sound of Cow remains a mystery after all these years.

HENRY COW VEVEY 1976