Art Bears
Hopes And Fears
LabelBelle AntiqueGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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*2024 reissue* Debut album released in ‘78 by Art Bears, a unit spawned from the fusion of Henry Cow and Slap Happy. With lyrics by Cutler + songs by Frith and songs by Dagmar, the image of the band is as if the extracts of the above two bands had been extracted and sharpened. A memorable album that could be seen as the starting point for the movement later known as ‘RecoMenkei’. Paper jacket, SHM-CD, remastered in 2015, with four bonus tracks, and even the poster included only on the first pressing is reproduced. A long-awaited encore pressing of this long-unavailable work!
Release notes
2024 Reissue of [r7199206]. Japanese gatefold Mini LP sleeve replica, with obi, original folded mini poster replica and folded insert (mostly in Japanese). Tracks 15 to 18 are Bonus Tracks Matrix runout shows the previous Belle Antique 2015 catalog number.
| 1 | On Suicide | 1:26 | |
| 2 | The Dividing Line | 4:11 | |
| 3 | Joan | 3:05 | |
| 4 | Maze | 5:05 | |
| 5 | In Two Minds | 8:45 | |
| 6 | Terrain | 3:49 | |
| 7 | The Tube | 3:05 | |
| 8 | The Dance | 5:09 | |
| 9 | Pirate Song | 1:28 | |
| 10 | Labyrinth | 2:15 | |
| 11 | Riddle | 2:49 | |
| 12 | Moeris, Dancing | 5:08 | |
| 13 | Piers | 2:10 | |
| 14 | Silence | 1:00 | |
| 15 | The Riddle | 2:21 | |
| 16 | First Things First | 1:55 | |
| 17 | March From The Dance | 1:05 | |
| 18 | The Hermit | 2:47 |
- Jane Colling
- Artwork [Figures]
- Georgie Born
- Bass, Cello
- Lindsay Cooper
- Bassoon, Oboe, Soprano Saxophone, Recorder
- Art Bears
- Cover
- Doug Kierdorf
- Cover [Assistant]
- Chris Cutler
- Drums, Drums [Electrified Drums], Percussion [Percussions], Noises [Noise], Artwork [Centre]
- David Vorhaus
- Engineer (6, 7, 8, 13)
- Etienne Conod
- Engineer (1 to 5, 9 to 12)
- Jack Balchin
- Engineer [Assistance] (6, 7, 8, 13)
- Fred Frith
- Guitar [Guitars], Violin, Viola, Piano, Harmonium, Xylophone
- Tim Hodgkinson
- Organ, Clarinet
- Kazuo Ogino
- Remastered By
- Dagmar Krause
- Voice
