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The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow
FORMAT
17CD BOX

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RER HCBRX1 RER HCBRX1
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RELEASE DATE
1/3/2020

"17 CDs, 1 DVD and 250 pages of histories, testimony commentaries and photographs -- in a sturdy box. This collection brings together in an inexpensive and definitive edition the full contents of all earlier Henry Cow releases, with the addition of a further 60 page booklet of newly unearthed, or commissioned, band commentaries, pictures and other documents prepared specifically for this box -- as well as re-mastered versions of all the studio CDs and a rare previously not for sale bonus CD -- Cabinet of Curiosities. This collection offers a major retrospective of one of Britain's most resilient and elusive bands -- and a redress to the rather over-tidy story told on their five officially released LPs. Like Frank Zappa or Harry Partch, Henry Cow were mavericks, working without compromise at the edge of their field and systematically breaking the rules and conventions that restrained it. In the 40 years since they disbanded, their work has acquired a formidable reputation, leading finally to this definitive collection -- which replaces a chaotic mass of degraded bootlegs with properly mastered, carefully selected and thoroughly annotated lost projects, compositions and performances."