1978-March-22

Henry Cow	Volume 8: Bremen

Sendesaal	Bremen, Germany


Disc 1  -  74.07
1	Armed Maniac / Things We Forgot		11.55

New Suite  (14.36)
2	Van Fleet >				1.49
3	Viva Pa Ubu instrumental extract >	4.35
4	The Big Tune Begins >			0.45
5	The Big Tune Continues >		2.11
6	The Big Tune Ends >			1.30
7	March"	Frith				3.46

Die Kunst Der Orgel
8-12	Bremen >				34.25
13-14	Erk Gah instrumental extract		13.04


Georgie Born		Bass, Cello
Lindsay Cooper		Winds
Chris Cutler		Drums
Fred Frith		Guitar
Tim Hodginson		Keyboards


Notes that came with this recording:

Extracts from a live radio broadcast on Radio Bremen for 
New Jazz Live on 22 March 1978.

Henry Cow perform here as a quintet of Hodgkinson/Frith/Cooper/Born/Cutler. 
Dagmar Krause had left the band the previous November due to ill health. 
"Armed Maniac/Things We Forgot" is a titled improvisation with references 
"in ambience" to contemporary classical composers Krzysztof Penderecki 
and György Ligeti.  New Suite is a Fred Frith composition that includes 
"Van Fleet", a pun on Don Van Vliet, and an instrumental version of 
Tim Hodgkinson's "Viva Pa Ubu".  "Viva Pa Ubu" is a song that had been 
recorded, with the whole group singing, during (what became) the Hopes 
and Fears recording sessions in January 1978, and was the start of a 
musical production by Hodgkinson of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi 
(Pa Ubu being a character in the play).  It was later released on the 
Recommended Records Sampler and re-released as a bonus track on the 
CD reissue of Western Culture.  Die Kunst Der Orgel is a 34min improvisation 
that ends with an instrumental version of Tim Hodgkinson's "Erk Gah".