Rare recordings of Lindsay Cooper. Ex-Henry Cow, National Health, News from Babel,Mike Westbrook Orchestra, FIG.

Lindsay Cooper was a rare and extraordinary woman; at home in rock bands (Henry Cow, National Health), Jazz ensembles (Mike Westbrook Orchestra, Maarten Altena Octet) Concert Halls (Concerto for Sopranino Saxophone and Orchestra, Songs for bassoon and Orchestra); she also founded the Feminist Improvising Group, scored feature films and wrote for television, dance, radio, theater, contemporary ensembles and orchestras - as well as being highly respected as a virtuoso performer on several instruments. A number of recordings are still available, but much is undocumented. The rarities series hopes to redress this lack. The 2 CD set includes 2 previously unreleased gems: 33 minutes and 33 seconds of a beautiful recording of the Trio Trabant (Lindsay Cooper, Alfred Harth and Phil Minton) made in 1991 and heard here for the first time, and the luminous Rosetta Stone that is Piano Roulette - a newly discovered piano solo performed at a concert in New York in 1985

Track Listing

• Tsar's Band
• The Assassination
• The Evening Before
• Give us a Smile: film score
• Washing Line
• Against the Current: film score
• The Time of their Lives
• Curtain Music
• The Song of the Goose and the Common
• Off the Fence
• Fair exchange
• Windscale
• The Number 8 Bus
• Belfast
• Fanfare
• Flute Tune
• Priesthill
• Domestic Bliss: end Credits
• Court Entry
• Lord Wilberforce
• Home Movie 1
• Open Letters
• Linda B
• Home Movie 2
• Three heads
• Julia: end Credits
• Extract from Concerto Per Sax Sopranino e Archi
• In the Archive
• Mainz
• Paulskirche

• Le Detroit
• De Breede en de Smalle Weg
• Le Cadran Bleu 3
• State of Retrograd
• Vigilanz
• Pictures from the Great Exhibition
• In the Dark Year
• Piano Roulette.
• Petrified
• Education

Additional Details

Label: Rer Megacorp

Genre: Progressive Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 124 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/13/15

UPC: 752725034029