Art Bears
Winter Songs
LabelBelle AntiqueGenrePsychedelia & Kraut
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*2024 reissue* Brilliant second album by Art Bears, a band/project featuring Fred Frith, Chris Cutler and Dagmar Krause, formed in 1978 after disputes over the musical direction within Henry Cow. 'Winter Songs', originally released in 1979, placed Art Bears in the forefront of the Rock In Opposition Movement. Art Bears' intense and brutal avant-garde approach on the album comes across as primordial expression, which is nailed down by Krause's violently charismatic voice. As a piece of music revealing unrivalled originality and creativity, 'Winter Songs' is even more relevant today than it was at the time of its original release.
Gold embossed jacket as original, with leaflet. Paper jacket, SHM-CD, remastered in 2015, 2 bonus tracks. Long-awaited encore pressing of this long-unavailable work!
Release notes
2024 Reissue of [r7691743]. Japanese Mini LP CD replica with obi miniaturized original insert replica and folded insert (mostly in Japanese). Track 15 is really silence. Tracks 16 and 17 are bonus tracks. Matrix runout shows the previous Belle Antique 2015 catalog number.
| 1 | The Bath Of Stars | 1:45 | |
| 2 | First Things First | 2:50 | |
| 3 | Gold | 1:41 | |
| 4 | The Summer Wheel | 2:47 | |
| 5 | The Slave | 3:29 | |
| 6 | The Hermit | 3:00 | |
| 7 | Rats And Monkeys | 3:24 | |
| 8 | The Skeleton | 3:12 | |
| 9 | The Winter Wheel | 3:07 | |
| 10 | Man And Boy | 3:22 | |
| 11 | Winter / War | 3:06 | |
| 12 | Force | 0:55 | |
| 13 | 3 Figures | 1:52 | |
| 14 | 3 Wheels | 3:35 | |
| 15 | Silence | 1:00 | |
| 16 | Collapse 1979 | 4:51 | |
| 17 | Carved In Stone (Rebirth) | 1:46 |
- Chris Cutler
- Drums, Percussion, Written-By, Arranged By, Text By [Texts]
- Fred Frith
- Guitar [Guitars], Violin, Keyboards, Xylophone, Written-By, Arranged By, Composed By [Compositions]
- Kazuo Ogino
- Remastered By [Digitally]
- Dagmar Krause
- Voice
