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mercoledì 4 dicembre 2013

Henry Cow - Western Culture


Western Culture is the last album by Henry Cow, recorded at Sunrise Studios in Kirchberg, Switzerland in January, July and August 1978. It was released on Henry Cow's own private label, Broadcast, in 1979. Later editions appeared on Interzone in the US and Celluloid in France. Only the UK Broadcast pressing used the custom label artwork design.


Western Culture is an instrumental album which came about as a result of disagreements in the band as to what the composition of their next album should be. Recording had already begun at Sunrise Studios in January 1978 and some members were not happy about the predominance of song-oriented material. As a compromise it was agreed that two albums would be made: one of "songs" (released soon after as Hopes and Fears under the name of a new group Art Bears) and one of purely instrumental compositions.
The group returned to Sunrise Studios in July that year to record the instrumental pieces for Western Culture, except "½ the Sky", which had been recorded during the January sessions.
Henry Cow split up shortly after recording this album.

Listen the full album on Youtube (Tracks 1 to 7 are the original tracklist, 8 to 11 are the bonus tracks from the 2001 cd re-issue):



giovedì 18 luglio 2013

Massacre - Killing Time

Original Cover, 1981
Cd reissue cover, 1993

Killing Time is the debut studio album by American experimental rock band Massacre. It was released in September, 1981, through record label Celluloid. It consists of a compilation of recordings made at Martin Bisi's OAO studio in Brooklyn, New York in June, 1981, and live recordings taken from their April, 1981 Paris concerts. The group disbanded shortly after, eventually reforming in 1998 with Charles Hayward replacing Maher on drums and further recording three more albums. Killing Time was generally well-received by critics.

The album was reissued on RecRec music in 1993 with six extra tracks.

Other infos here, here and here! 

You can listen this reissue as a full album on youtube here:


If you are lucky you can download mp3s here (don't know what version is!)