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Thanks for this, which really brings out the dark beauty of the piece.

The version on the first side of Henry Cow Concerts I think is the definitive one (minus the multitracked atonal pianos). Tim Hodgkinson's organ line over the vamp is gorgeous and completely cogent atonality, with Fred shifting to a compressed guitar lead in counterpoint. John's fuzz bass on the vamp for the C section finale is blistering.

Do more Henry Cow please. This was wonderful

This is so cool! Would love to see more HC analysis.

Came here from Reddit. Three decades ago, I was encouraged to listen to Henry Cow, but I never got around to it. Thanks for being my guide!

Thank you very much for your transcription and harmonic analysis of this compelling piece of music.

Holy f#$@ Batman, that's impressive. Like how you squeezed Magma in there. Frith is up there with Fripp for me. Your explanation is almost akin the the BBC shipping forecast. Neat.

Great to hear someone tackling HC. Bravo! Subscribed.

Your effort here is much appreciated 🙏

nailed it addy's homeplate. this music means so much to me, and it's great to see how practical its theory is in execution, it all Makes Sense and goes deeper and deeper. a less theory-minded individual would have a difficult time pulling this kind of writing off. myself very much included.

That damn groove in 7/4 with the second bar a 8th note shorter. I had such trouble figuring that rhythm out back in the day. Its such a damn great groove though, god damn. Especially in the live version, where they really ham it in and Cutler goes crazy on the drums.

this is awesome! i would love to see a video like this breaking down a magma piece!

Always loved this piece (and, perhaps not so strangely, its title). Thanks for helping me see a little bit further into it.

Oh, and by the way, I did enjoy singing the actual lyrics to your playing the music! Thank you! P.

So dope! I've never heard this song before but I'm super into it

Nice reduction. Love this piece and the flipside long-form composition by Tim Hodgkinson.

That’s a colorful and challenging piece of music. You presented it very well! Good job!

I always love an explanation, even if it is way out of my learning. Henry Cow is a band I've been pressing people to listen to for decades.

Amazing work, mate. Congratulations.

Great work 👏 Thanks for posting this. Always been a favourite piece.

Henry Cow are usually categized as a subgenre of progressive music, often known as Avant-prog. Hell, they may be the band that founded the subgenre. Other bands in the same subgenre, are: Univers Zero Thinking Plague Art Zoyd Aksak Maboul Miriodor Samla Mammas Manna Yugen And otheres...

You are so cool to transcribe this song. Tell me whats the lyric tells us? l love HC mostly the vocal pieces.Thanks to play this song,and I just know piano play by Fred Frith(?). the tones mysteriously beautiful.

You forgot reason number 4. #4, BECAUSE I'M BRILLIANT!

Thank you for transcribing this piece I love Henry Cow. Have you heard Arrigo Barnabe’s album Tubaroes Voadores?

i have always loved this track, the piano zomg

Hi. Thank you so much for your video on what is one of Henry Cow's finest achievements on record. In all truth, I would have dearly loved to hear you attempting the free form overdubbed piano music played by Fred Frith just before the song's finale. I understand that would have been very difficult but it would have been great to my ears to have heard some very rough attempts at it. I note that Henry Cow themselves never performed this free form piece live, but instead inserted three or four other songs to make a suite of different musics as a cohesive entity. That was good but even Fred Frith would play different free form guitar solos to his composition "Ruins" whenever that piece was played, which was a great many times. Thanks once again and I would love to see your response to this, if you have the time and inclination. Sincerely, Peter.

Nice work. Love this piece

Song of Solomon - Chapter 6 6:4 Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners. 6:5 Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead. 6:6 Thy teeth are as a flock of sheep which go up from the washing, whereof every one beareth twins, and there is not one barren among them. 6:7 As a piece of a pomegranate are thy temples within thy locks. 6:8 There are threescore queens, and fourscore concubines, and virgins without number. 6:9 My dove, my undefiled is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the choice one of her that bare her. The daughters saw her, and blessed her; yea, the queens and the concubines, and they praised her. 6:10 Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners?

Lovet it!

really enjoyed this, thank you.

Excellent work!!!

Hey! Great work transcribing!!! Now can you get your partner to sing like Dagmar Kraus? IMHO (Don't try it, she might get injured! )

Now do Living in the Heart of the Beast!!!

Hi, this piece is really a master piece. Thanks a lot for your transcription. Will it be possible to find or to buy the complete transcription in PDF ? Tks in advance Krgds YL

Great analysis! But I'm little suspicious of some parts. I think that 2nd bar is 3/8 and I think Bb7#9/D's bass is C#.anyway really great analysis I've ever seen