Kew. Rhone.

by John Greaves / Peter Blegvad / Lisa Herman

Type: Album
Released: March 1977
Label: Virgin
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 36:54
Community rating: 4.11/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Peter Blegvad, Lisa Herman, John Greaves

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Featuring key alumni from Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, this collaborative avant-prog masterpiece is an astonishingly dense, highly intellectual conceptual puzzle. 'Kew. Rhone.' intricately weaves profoundly complex, shifting time signatures with beautifully surreal vocal jazz and remarkably quirky, highly progressive lyrical anagrams.

Genres

Descriptors: fusion, avant-garde, conceptual, uncommon-time-signatures, progressive, rhythmic, political, complex, through-composed, narrative, theatrical, literary

Tracklist

Good Evening (0:33)
Twenty-Two Proverbs (4:08)
Seven Scenes From The Painting "Exhuming The First American Mastodon" By C.W. Peale (3:32)
Kew. Rhone. (3:04)
Pipeline (3:41)
Catalogue Of Fifteen Objects And Their Titles (3:36)
One Footnote (To Kew. Rhone.) (1:29)
Three Tenses Onanism (4:06)
Nine Mineral Emblems (5:51)
Apricot (3:05)
Gegenstand (3:44)

Credits

John Greaves - primary artist, music by, arranged by, percussion, piano, organ, bass, vocals
Peter Blegvad - primary artist, cover, lyrics by, tenor saxophone, vocals, guitar
Lisa Herman - primary artist, vocals
Vito Rendace - alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute
Boris Kinberg - claves
Andrew Cyrille - drums, percussion
Pete Norman - lacquer cut by
Carla Bley - tenor saxophone, vocals
Michael Mantler - trumpet, trombone, engineer
Michael Levine - violin, viola, vocals
April Lang - vocals
Dana Johnson - vocals