Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning

Henry Cow - In Praise Of Learning 1975







This was the first Henry Cow I ever bought, the LP with the red boot.



Eventually I had them all, and would put those three 'boots' on my wall, each in a transparent LP frame.



WishI stll had 'em.







Anyway, this can be a life-changing album if heard under proper circumstances.

Considered in the context of its time, over thirty years ago, astonishingly different- yet fearlessly so.



It is the first album to be co-credited with Slapp Happy, whose Dagmar Krause would later form the Art Bears with Frith and Cutler.





"Art is not a mirror, it is a hammer" the band quotes John Grierson.