A version of Kew. Rhone.’s artwork for its CD-ROM release in 1998 as Kew. Rom.

Peter Blegvad’s illustration for the song “Pipeline”

Carla Bley and Mike Mantler’s Woodstock studio, Grog Kill, 1976

Kew. Rhone. production are terrific – Greaves had just Kew. Rhone. Club. So novelist Jonathan Coe surfaces of the record. This chimes with Peter Blegvad quit Henry Cow, and was recording with contributes an autobiographical memoir, Blegvad’s realisation that his attempt to Uniformbooks Pbk 192 pp and Mike Mantler at Grog Kill, Siegfried Zielinski gets philosophical, and write non-expressive lyrics, suppressing Kew. Rhone. is a controversial and their studio in rural Woodstock. Drummer the US singer and poet Franklin Bruno has his emotions, was causing those emotions extraordinary 1977 album by asked Greaves to help him fun with a counter-historical story, trading to reappear on a deeper level. So the and Peter Blegvad. A neglected masterpiece learn the intricate rhythms by beating out places between Kew. Rhone. and Never racing palindromes of the title track mask of surreal rock or an exasperating hall of time on Cyrille’s naked back. Mind The Bollocks (legend has it that Virgin a lament for lost childhood. The list of mirrors, a musical Finnegans Wake? For The album has been reissued several released both albums on the same day, but “Nine Mineral Emblems” constitutes a love many that exasperation starts with those times, even as a CD-ROM in 1998 (Kew. Coe’s keen memory punctures that one). It’s letter (“I am your quarry, your mine”). In a periods in the title, which seem unnecessary Rom.). Now publisher Colin Sackett has a pleasure reading the thoughts of people way the book itself works like this: like a even once you’ve understood that it’s an conjured up this delightful book, full of wit, who have lived with this strange album for good literary critic, Blegvad is reluctant anagram of Knowhere – as Samuel Butler’s pictures and Blegvad’s densely literary several decades. Poet Andrew Joron: “Yet to get into too much personal stuff, but in 1872 novel Erewhon was an anagram of considerations, sprouting thickets of for all the coolth of its construction, there reminiscences by Greaves and Herman, that Nowhere. Blegvad’s lyrics are a torrent of footnotes. In the first half former Slapp is a warmth that smokes and smolders “cloud of eros” is pungent enough. Like a puns, palindromes, anagrams, lists and Happy guitarist, songwriter and cartoonist within Kew. Rhone., a cloud of eros that is Peter Greenaway production, the record is commentary on pictures. The cover is a grim, Blegvad tackles the 11 tracks in order, not merely captured but actually produced a closet stuffed with conceits and games. grey reproduction of a Victorian painting shedding dada light on his lyrics (in 2011 by the machine. In this respect, Kew. But when Greaves’s bass embraces Andrew overlaid with Roman numerals. But the whole he was elected president of the London Rhone. is reminiscent of nothing other than Cyrille’s remarkable drumming, to borrow is seductive. Greaves’s music is rollicking Institute of ‘Pataphysics). The book’s Duchamp’s Large Glass.” Kew. Rhone.’s manner for a moment, rub and sexy. Lisa Herman’s singing is warm second half contains 13 essays by members Joron fingers how a story of desire conkers awl.

Kew. Rom cover) Ducat ( Kew. Kill); François Mantler (Grog Karen and bright, and both the musicianship and of what US music writer Glen Kenny calls The leaks out from the apparently opaque Clive Bell

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