Latest Release
- 23 DEC 2022
- 5 Songs
- Vol. 1: Beginnings · 2009
- Western Culture · 1978
- Vol. 9: Late · 2009
- Vol. 9: Late · 2009
- Vol. 4 & 5: Trondheim · 2009
- Later and Post-Virgin · 2009
- Western Culture · 1978
- Vol. 2: 1974-5 (Digital Only) · 2009
- Vol. 1: Beginnings · 2009
- Vol. 1: Beginnings · 2009
- 2009
- 2009
- 2009
Singles & EPs
About Henry Cow
Formed at Cambridge during the political and social tumult of 1968, Henry Cow maintained that sense of intellectual rigor, fierce left-wing politics, and rejection of received wisdom throughout their lifespan. They released several albums on the pioneering progressive label Virgin Records, including an album-length collaboration with labelmates Slapp Happy, but split in 1978. Drummer Chris Cutler and Fred Frith forming the more song-oriented Art Bears while reeds players Lindsay Cooper and Tim Hodgkinson moved into abstract, free jazz pursuits. A 1978 festival curated by Henry Cow called Rock in Opposition spawned an experimental rock subgenre of that name.
- ORIGIN
- Cambridge, England
- FORMED
- May 1968
- GENRE
- Alternative