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Henry Cow is a Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of Kevin Ayers, John Greaves, Mike Oldfield, Robert Wyatt and Anthony Moore. Those roots explain a lot about how Henry Cow arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Hatfield and the North, Soft Machine, National Health, Matching Mole and Robert Wyatt, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into John Greaves, Colin Edwin, Joanna Newsom, Noa and Fish Rising, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 27 connections around Henry Cow, reaching back through Kevin Ayers and forward to John Greaves. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Henry Cow were an English experimental rock group, founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Henry Cow's personnel fluctuated over their decade together; alongside Frith and Hodgkinson, however, drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, and bassoonist/oboist Lindsay Cooper were important long-term members.
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Henry Cow connections
Henry Cow grew out of Kevin Ayers, John Greaves, Mike Oldfield and Robert Wyatt, shares an orbit with Hatfield and the North, Soft Machine, National Health and Matching Mole, went on to shape John Greaves, Colin Edwin, Joanna Newsom and Noa. 27 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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