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Comus
Cover art on "First Utterance" and band members
Cover art on "First Utterance" and band members
Background information
Genre(s) Acid folk, progressive rock
Years active 1971–1973
Label(s) Dawn Records
Associated acts Slapp Happy
Members
Andy Hellaby
Glenn Goring
Roger Wootton
Bobbie Watson
Colin Pearson
Rob Young

Comus is a British progressive rock / folk band which had a brief career in the early 1970s and has enjoyed some notoriety from collectors as being unparalleled in their genre. A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Psychedelic folk or Psych folk is a Music genre that is a blending of Folk music and Psychedelic rock or pop Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music Dawn Records was a subsidiary of Pye Records. Active 1970 - 75, it was set up largely as Pye's 'underground and progressive' label a rival of the EMI Slapp Happy was a German / English Avant-garde pop group consisting of Anthony Moore (keyboards Peter Blegvad (guitar The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Progressive rock (often shortened to " progressive " " prog " or " prog rock " is a form of Rock music that evolved Progressive folk is a type of Folk music that rejects or de-emphasizes the conventions of traditional Folk music and encourages stylistic or thematic innovation A genre (ˈʒɑːnrə also /ˈdʒɑːnrə/ from French "kind" or "sort" from Latin: genus (stem gener-) is a loose set

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History

The band was named after Comus, a masque by John Milton and is also from the name of the Greek god Comus. In Greek mythology, Comus or Komos is the God of festivity revels and nocturnal dalliances David Bowie appreciated them and used them as support band for a 1969 concert at London's Purcell Rooms. David Bowie (ˈboʊiː born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947 is an English Musician, actor producer, and arranger. [1]

Their first album, First Utterance, appeared in 1971. First Utterance is the debut album of the British Progressive rock band Comus. The music is largely acoustic art rock that blends elements of eastern percussion, early folk and animal like vocals. Acoustic music refers to music that solely or primarily uses instruments which produce sound through entirely acoustic means as opposed to Electronic means The music evokes many feelings, but the most dominant are fear, confusion, despair with occasional passages of tranquil beauty such as can be found in "The Herald". The lyrics are dramatic, involving violence, murder, rape, and mental disorder. Apart from three tracks on "First Utterance" (The Herald, Diana and Bitten) most of the songs were written by Roger Wootton and arranged by Glenn Goring. The group disbanded after this album, but they reunited with new members for their second album, which was to be their swansong, To Keep from Crying, in 1974.

In 2005, a complete box set was released which featured both studio albums, their only single, Diana,and a previously unreleased track called "All the Colours of Darkness". The liner notes feature an exclusive interview with some members of the band. They reformed for the Mellotronen Festival in Sweden in March 2008[2]

Wootton also appears on some recordings by Slapp Happy. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Slapp Happy was a German / English Avant-garde pop group consisting of Anthony Moore (keyboards Peter Blegvad (guitar

Influence

In 1998, Opeth singer Mikael Åkerfeldt used a part of a sentence from "Drip Drip" for the title of the album My Arms, Your Hearse. Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band that formed in 1990 in Stockholm. Mikael Åkerfeldt (ˈoːkərˌfɛlt (born April 17, 1974, in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish musician best known as the current lead vocalist/lead My Arms Your Hearse (often abbreviated to MAYH) is Opeth 's third Album, released in 1998 The full line was "As I carry you to your grave, my arms your hearse".

Another nod to Comus was given on the 2005 Opeth album, Ghost Reveries. Ghost Reveries is the eighth full-length Studio album release of progressive death metal band Opeth. The second track "The Baying of the Hounds" was derived from a line in the song "Diana" which reads "And she knows by the sound of the baying, by the baying of the hounds".

English experimental band Current 93 covered the song "Diana" from First Utterance on their studio album Horsey. Experimental music is a term introduced by composer John Cage in 1955 Current 93 are an eclectic British Experimental music group working since the early 1980s in folk -based musical forms Musically this version is considerably different from the original, with David Tibet singing the lyrics in an agonizing fashion and constructing most of the song from a loop based around a vertiginous violin arrangement from the original. David Tibet (born David Michael Bunting, 5 March 1960 in Batu Gajah, Malaysia) is a British poet and Artist who Lyrics (in singular form Lyric) are a set of words that accompany music either by speaking or singing

Also by Current 93, the early album Earth covers Earth was conceived as a less bizarre (although still unique by Current 93’s standard) sequel to First Utterance, sometimes referred as “Second Utterance”

Personnel

Members who performed on "First Utterance"

Members who performed on "To Keep from Crying"

Discography

Studio albums

Box sets

Singles

Roger Wootton Solo Single

"Fiesta Fandango"/"New Tide"[3]

References

  1. ^ Sleeve notes from the 1995 remastered version of First Utterance (BGO CD275)
  2. ^ Comus Official myspace. Lindsay Cooper (born 3 March 1951) is an English Bassoon and Oboe player Composer and Political activist Didier Malherbe (born January 22, 1943 in Paris, France) is a saxophonist and flautist First Utterance is the debut album of the British Progressive rock band Comus. To Keep from Crying is the second album by Progressive folk band Comus. Retrieved on 2008-04-26. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1467 - The miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy.
  3. ^ slightly mainstream sunny pop with some nice ideas, using steeldrums and a Latin pop rhythm. "New Tide" also does not contribute much more to the content

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