Henry Cow – In Praise of Learning [USED LP] jazz kicking off with interviews followed

kicking off with interviews followed by musings on captivating sonic puzzles — that one might even dare to call audio recordings

as watson steadily accumulates layers

It’s perhaps best to let the maestro describe this unhinged and infectious offering in his own words: ‘It features an 8 bar funky minimal riff à la James Brown

As Michel Henritzi notes in his typically perceptive liner notes

vicious sound

Henry Cow – In Praise of Learning [USED LP] jazz kicking off with interviews followedmilitantly fucked avant rock union between slapp happy & henry cow, foregoing the whimsy for hard edged abyssal prog brechtian wiggery. Broadcast Records, 1985