{"id":3876,"date":"2018-02-16T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/?p=3876"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T16:02:54","slug":"love-at-first-listen-art-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/love-at-first-listen-art-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"Love At First Listen: Art Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I may, I&#8217;d like to speak to the ladies a moment. The women, the females, the girls; there&#8217;s something I think you&#8217;ll find very interesting. I&#8217;m so sure of this, that I&#8217;m just gonna hit you with it cold; straight, no chaser. Afterwards, I&#8217;ll reveal why.<\/p>\n<p>The following YouTube link should be cued up to the correct spot, but on the off chance it isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re looking for the 9:04 mark:\u00a0<strong>&#8220;The Slave&#8221;, from Art Bears&#8217; 1979 album\u00a0<em>Winter Songs.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>The lyrics are under the link in case you&#8217;d like to read them. The words are so clearly sung, you probably won&#8217;t even need to.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyh7hxG3Gwg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=544&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Once as the sun was setting<br \/>\n<\/em><em>A slave came to the gate<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Day dying.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On its fiery tongue<br \/>\n<\/em><em>An opal lay<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Of copper spun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then did we dream?<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Or were our houses<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Lambent gold?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In Winter&#8217;s pool<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Did glory pass<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And hold us speechless<br \/>\n<\/em><em>In its spell?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Where he had fallen,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Used and cast aside,<br \/>\n<\/em><em>All he had touched<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Was trembling and alive<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each life is present<br \/>\n<\/em><em>In this way;<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Each fashioned thing<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Speaks of its change.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Okay, take a moment, let that marinate, allow the goosebumps to subside-<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you even know a female voice could\u00a0<em>do that?!?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Any\u00a0<\/em>voice, for that matter? Because I didn&#8217;t, until recently.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the voice of German singer Dagmar Krause, overdubbed so it sounds like two women (I thought it was at first, so don&#8217;t feel bad if you did too). Krause, Chris Cutler and Fred Frith were members of the avant-rock collective Henry Cow, until they split in 1978, becoming Art Bears. The name comes from\u00a0<em>Ancient Art and Ritual\u00a0<\/em>(1913) by Jane Ellen Harrison:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Even to-day, when individualism is rampant, art bears traces of its collective, social origin.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Percussionist and lyricist Chris Cutler explains]\u00a0that it was a deliberate out-of-context quote, but that &#8220;not too much should be read into this; it just sounds intriguing, has an animal in it, plays with ambiguity and is mildly ridiculous&#8221;. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Art_Bears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wikipedia<\/em>]<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3877\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3877\" data-attachment-id=\"3877\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/love-at-first-listen-art-bears\/artbears1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg?fit=400%2C233&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,233\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"artbears1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Art Bears in 1978. (l.-r.) Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg?fit=400%2C233&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3877\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg?resize=400%2C233\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears1.jpg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art Bears in 1978. (l.-r.) Chris Cutler, Fred Frith, Dagmar Krause.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dagmar Krause&#8217;s work with Henry Cow was almost as challenging; if (by chance) you&#8217;re familiar with Frank Zappa works like &#8220;Time Is Money&#8221; and &#8220;Spider Of Destiny&#8221;, you&#8217;re already warmed up for its style. Here&#8217;s an example, just in case you&#8217;re intrigued.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Fd_7unOj4A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Even if you aren&#8217;t into avant-garde music, this is pretty impressive stuff, no?<\/p>\n<p>Art Bears recorded three studio albums;\u00a0<em>Hopes and Fears\u00a0<\/em>(1978, originally a Henry Cow effort),\u00a0<em>Winter Songs<\/em> (1979, posted above), and\u00a0<em>The World as It Is Today\u00a0<\/em>(1981, screamier than the previous album). All of it is uniquely, terrifically dark and vivid. Fred Frith is one of my favorite musicians, from his work solo and with John Zorn&#8217;s Naked City. I&#8217;ve never heard<em> anyone<\/em> sing like Dagmar Krause. It was like when I first heard Kaki King play guitar. I loved it immediately. That&#8217;s why I made you listen to that specific song first; I wanted you to feel the same rush of discovery I felt, hearing those indelible, affecting lines. I had to push you into the deep end to show you how great the water feels.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty great, huh? You should listen to the rest of the album. &#8220;The Hermit&#8221;, which follows &#8220;The Slave&#8221;, is quite lovely. &#8220;Rats and Monkeys&#8221; gets a little intense, but you can handle it. We can let the guys in now. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t think dudes would appreciate Art Bears, it&#8217;s that I feel the ladies might benefit more from some musical enlightenment, to which they can honestly relate. It&#8217;s a shame that there aren&#8217;t more musicians like this around today, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, my dear, I sure as hell think so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3878\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/love-at-first-listen-art-bears\/artbears2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg?fit=400%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"400,410\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"artbears2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg?fit=400%2C410&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3878\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg?resize=400%2C410\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg?w=400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/artbears2.jpg?resize=293%2C300&amp;ssl=1 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I may, I&#8217;d like to speak to the ladies a moment. The women, the females, the girls; there&#8217;s something I think you&#8217;ll find very interesting. I&#8217;m so sure of this, that I&#8217;m just gonna hit you with it cold; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/love-at-first-listen-art-bears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,72,46],"tags":[266,353,897,105,880,2907,2903,2904,2905,383,2908,380,409,379,2909,2906,2910],"class_list":["post-3876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faint-signals","category-girls-of-biul","category-late-to-the-party","category-thousand-listen-club","tag-1970s","tag-353","tag-897","tag-1980s","tag-880","tag-art-bears","tag-avant-rock","tag-chris-cutler","tag-dagmar-krause","tag-fred-frith","tag-henry-cow","tag-john-zorn","tag-kaki-king","tag-naked-city","tag-progressive-rock","tag-slapp-happy","tag-sprechstimme"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p53HmY-10w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":611,"url":"https:\/\/www.bandsiusetalike.com\/biul\/aerosmith\/","url_meta":{"origin":3876,"position":0},"title":"Aerosmith","author":"MattyBoy","date":"09\/02\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's the thing about Aerosmith. 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