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Kew Rhone

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Peter Blegvad John Greaves Format: Audio CD
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
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Cartoonist, Surrealist and Musician, Peter Blegvad is Known for his Radical and Avant Garde Leanings with Slapp Happy and Henry Cow Amongst Others. This Release with John Greaves (Ex Henry Cow) and Lisa Herman was Released in 1977, also Includes Contributions from Carla Bley and Michael Mantler.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.83 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Voiceprint
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Voiceprint
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000DAPV
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 27 ratings

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4.6 out of 5 stars
27 global ratings

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John T. Davidson
5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous early Canterbury'ish and pre-RIO effort
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021
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I followed John Greaves from National Health ..Queues and Cures.. to this effort, just prior to the NH CD. This one is amazing, and easy to see influences that later would impact RIO, and even Avante bands like Sleep Time Gorilla Museum, Bent Knee, Present, and others. This is an Amazing album, with so much talent and creativity.
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Russell
5.0 out of 5 stars The first web album?
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2000
I shall be brief. After spending nearly ten years on the lookout for Kew.Rhone. I found a CD release stuck in the 'G's in Virgin. One copy. So I bought it. It was a pleasure to hear the complex and witty (as opposed to deadening) melodies and lyrics, with the added bonus of Carla Bley's limpid orchestrations. This is music moving at an amazing pace - for art rockers to be finally playing with the big boys (Andrew Cyrille; Michael Mantler) and girls (Carla). But the joyful shock came when I played the record on my new PC. A very deceptively quiet intelligence had included a sound and image archive lasting well over one hour (to explore all the twists) and including unreleased tracks from the album (hidden), interviews, animations and full length alternative versions by none less than Robert Wyatt. Cult! Simply sublime. Buy it and weep that Greaves and Blegvad aren't considered as important as Becker and Fagen, if not (quite) Lennon-McCartney.
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M. Sommers
5.0 out of 5 stars A reminder of when intelligence was almost fashionable.
Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2001
Having been a big fan of Henry Cow, I had heard of this album, but had never seen it in a shop, and therefore I only obtained a copy a couple of months ago. I think I must have played it every day since then. John Greaves, who I knew primarily as a superb and inovative bass player and strong vocalist, proves himself to be a fantastic composer (and pretty good pianist, too). Peter Blegvad's lyrics are witty (if mind bogglingly obscure) and the other musicians on this record are superb. It is one of the most intelligent records I have heard in many years, and yet still has plenty of tunes you could whistle, if you were so inclined.
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Philip Welsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Animal laminate
Reviewed in the United States on January 26, 2000
This builds on the dada-erudition-language-game-songs only hinted at in its predecessor (Slapp Happy's "Desperate Straights") -- it's too clever by a factor of fifty, and never ceases to amaze. One of my ten or so favorite albums of all time. "Twenty-Two Proverbs" and "Catalogue Of Fifteen Objects & Their Titles" are hysterical; "Three Tenses Onanism" (look it up) even more so. As a founted receptacle of mystery, it reminds me more than anything else of Oak Island -- each time giving up a tiny bit more of its secret, but never the whole thing. But a blessing, nonetheless. So imagine being given a musical tour of the failed Oak Island dig sites by the progeny of some bizarre union of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Rev. Charles Dodgson. Unique, perverse, long-winded to a virtue, and nearly perfect -- it always saddens me Blegvad couldn't maintain this pitch. Yet perhaps -- like the children in Henry Kuttner's "And Mimsy Were the Borogoves" -- he outdid himself, as was seen so more. Spooky.
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peter@epl.meei.harvard.edu
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome partially-buried gem of mid-1970's mutant music
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 1998
Amazingly witty and musically intricate, more pop sounding than Henry Cow, more uplifting than the Art Bears or Cassiber, yet more dissonant than Hatfield and the North, this is one of the buried treasures of 1970's "progressive-experimental" rock-jazz music (for lack of a better label). Extremely listenable, entertaining, even erudite, if not obscurantist. Some lyrics are anagrams on Kew.Rhone, others are palindromes, e.g. "Peel's foe not a set animal laminates a tone of sleep", still others are musings on the first excavations of Mastodons (as physically carried out and depicted in painting by Peel himself). Data tracks accompany the audio-CD, with comments on the meanings of the songs. They just don't make 'em like this any more.
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Paul
5.0 out of 5 stars cd
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 16, 2024
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Prompt delivery, good value
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Fantakus
5.0 out of 5 stars Raffinatissimo
Reviewed in Italy on April 13, 2023
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Creativa opera guidata da John Greaves, meravigliosamente suonata e soprattutto cantata, tra Canterbury, jazz, musical e cabaret.
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マックマニア
5.0 out of 5 stars enhancedじゃないよ
Reviewed in Japan on March 3, 2007
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マルチメデイアトラックは収録されておりませんが。

ボーナストラックとしてLisa,Peter&JohnによるBad Alchemyの練習音源が収録されています。

本編は３０年経っても色褪せないから、多少高くても文句は言わない、が。
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Cliente Amazon
4.0 out of 5 stars Kew Rhone
Reviewed in Italy on January 4, 2020
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Musica da ascoltare più e più volte deve entrare nella testa,è chiamata Hart-Rock.
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Neil C
5.0 out of 5 stars Unique
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2007
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What a superb record. A consistently experimental and very highly listenable recording that melds avant garde jazz, progressive rock and contemporary classical music with a lyrical interest in lists, diagrams and palindromes. The playing, singing and composition/arrangements are generally first rate.

The album opens with a slightly clumsy intro which stacks some main thematic ideas in a kind of big band arrangement - then after the inauspicious start we are into the superbly energetic "Twenty Two Proverbs", in which a list of aphorisms are set with chromatic chord progressions and wonderful points of arrangement (close vocal harmonies and mixtures of solo and ensemble singing). This also has a blistering heavy electric guitar solo by Peter Blegvad in its centre.

"Seven Scenes..." is introspective and atmospheric with a lilting jazzy middle section... this is music with wide ranging expressive vocal melodies. The piano playing by John Greaves is also especially notable on this track.

"Kew.Rhone" and "Pipeline" - these pieces are real highlights - great playing, great compositions, great rhythm and feel, great complex melodic and harmonic progressions. And... Mike Mantler's trumpet solo on "Pipeline" - awesome!

"Catalogue..." returns to introspection at the start and runs through some quite demented ostinatos and virtuosic fast singing... always growing in intensity throughout the piece

There is a bit of a dip in quality with "One Footnote" which is short, brash and humorous. "Three Tenses Onanism" has a nice piano intro but ultimately comes across as unnecessarily rambling and atonal - it is perhaps the most extremely avant garde piece on the album with a vocal by Peter Blegvad.

"Nine Mineral Emblems" is back on form - introspective at the start and then with a change to some very tasty jazzy energetic playing dominated by some outstanding drumming and bass playing.

"Apricot" isn't of the quality of the rest of the album, although Mike Mantler's trumpet solo is excellent.

"Gegenstand" is an enigmatic, mysterious and spare but melodically complex epilogue - it leaves the album on a pensive note.

The version I have also has a CD Rom component with music, text and visuals allowing those interested to unpick some of the conceptual underpinnings of the work.

This music is unique as it represents the fusing of American experimental ensemble jazz (a la Carla Bley/Mike Mantler/Frank Zappa (in his big band jazzish works) with an English avant jazz rock sensibility that would include Henry Cow, National Health etc. Many more people should know about this excellent and unique music.
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