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Rick - My personal favorite HC was/is "In Praise Of Learning." The odd thing is when I was growing up as a teen in the latter-half of the 70's in France this stuff was as hip and happening among the other "muso's" as perhaps Stereolab is today. Anyway, here's a Henry Cow chronology -- you'll see lots of bands that listed that fell into the Henry Cow orbit. http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/bands/chrono/henrycow.html Some HC band history here...http://www.furious.com/perfect/henrycow.html Or search closely here: http://www.ccutler.com/bands/group02.shtml and ask Chris Cutler for recommendations. :-) If you're not already familiar with them, try adding Robert Wyatt and Soft Machine to your "exploration" list. However I *strongly* support Chris Muir's MAGMA recommendation. Now here is a band whose work defies description. Try getting Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (1973) or MAGMA LIVE (1975). WOW! David ----- Original Message ----- From: "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:48 PM Subject: art rock recommendations? > Somehow I completely missed out on the whole > Henry Cow/Art Bears phenomenon. I think I was really sick of > prog rock at the time that they started making records so I foolishly > dismissed them > without ever even hearing them. Ahhhhh, the follies of youth. > > Anyway, a good friend of mine from this list, the looping > trumpeteer/singer/multi-instrumentalist, George Demarest > highly recommended that I check out Chris Cutler, the innovative drummer > with some of those groups (who he just saw > perform in Boston) and I realized that I knew nothing about the whole scene > and wondered if anyone here would > give me a desert Island disc list of 3-5 CDs that they think are the best of > this group of people. > > Any Henry Cow/Art Bears fans out there who want to initiate a newbie? > > eagerly anticipating a reply, Rick >