Western Culture
by Henry Cow
- Type: Album
- Released: 1979
- Label: Broadcast
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 36:03
- Community rating: 4.25/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Irene Schweizer, Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper, Annemarie Roelofs, Tim Hodgkinson, Fred Frith, Georgie Born
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The final studio album from Rock in Opposition pioneers Henry Cow is a staggering, completely uncompromising display of instrumental complexity. 'Western Culture' weaves intensely technical, wildly eclectic arrangements filled with uncommon time signatures and deep dissonance, standing as a monumental, purely avant-garde conclusion to their boundary-pushing career.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, complex, instrumental, uncommon-time-signatures, dissonant, improvisation, technical, experimental, through-composed, orchestral
Tracklist
- Industry (6:58)
- The Decay Of Cities (6:55)
- On The Raft (4:01)
- Falling Away (7:38)
- Gretels Tale (3:58)
- Look Back (1:19)
- 1/2 The Sky (5:14)
Credits
- Henry Cow - primary artist, recorded by, mixed by
- Fred Frith - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, soprano saxophone
- Lindsay Cooper - bassoon, oboe, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, tape, written-by
- Chris Cutler - drums, electronic drums, noises, cover, trumpet, piano
- Gerald Reynolds - lacquer cut by
- Tim Hodgkinson - organ, clarinet, alto saxophone, lap steel guitar [hawaiian guitar], written-by, piano, written-by
- Etienne Conod - recorded by, mixed by
- Annemarie Roelofs - trombone, violin
- Irene Schweizer - piano
- Georgie Born - bass