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Released
  
1991 (1991)

Length
  
142:19

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box (1991)
  
Henry Cow Box (2006)

Release date
  
1991

Genre
  
Experimental rock

Recorded
  
1973–1975, 1990

Producer
  
Henry Cow and others

Artist
  
Henry Cow

Label
  
Recommended Records (UK)

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Similar
  
Henry Cow albums, Experimental rock albums

The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box is a three-CD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow. It was released in 1991 by Recommended Records and East Side Digital, and contains three albums Henry Cow made for Virgin Records between 1973 and 1975, Legend, Unrest and In Praise of Learning. Included in the box set is a 24-page souvenir booklet and a Henry Cow fold-out family-tree.

Contents

Track lists

The CDs in this box set are as released by East Side Digital in 1991, which include bonus tracks and remixed versions of Legend and In Praise of Learning.

Personnel

  • Fred Frith – guitars, violin, viola, xylophone, piano, voice
  • Tim Hodgkinson – organ, piano, alto saxophone, clarinet, voice
  • John Greaves – bass guitar, piano, voice
  • Chris Cutler – drums, piano, voice
  • Geoff Leigh – saxophones, flute, clarinet, recorder, voice
  • Lindsay Cooper – bassoon, oboe, recorder, voice
  • Dagmar Krause – voice
  • Peter Blegvad – guitar, voice, clarinet
  • Anthony Moore – piano, electronics and tapework
  • Remixes

    Disc 1 is a remixed version of Legend by Tim Hodgkinson and Fred Frith at Cold Storage and Red Shop Studios in May/August 1990. The bonus track "Bellycan" is an outtake from Henry Cow's Greasy Truckers Live at Dingwalls Dance Hall recording session in November 1973.

    Disc 2 was not remixed. The bonus tracks "Torchfire" and "The Glove" were derived from raw material recorded during the Unrest sessions, and were mixed by Hodgkinson at Cold Storage Studios in 1984.

    Disc 3 is a remixed version of In Praise of Learning by Frith, Hodgkinson and Martin Bisi at BC studios, New York in April 1985, and at Cold Storage studios by Hodgkinson. The bonus track "Lovers of Gold" is an alternate version of "Beginning: The Long March" created by Chris Cutler.

    References

    The Virgin Years – Souvenir Box Wikipedia