Kew. Rhone.
| Kew. Rhone. | ||||
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| Studio album by John Greaves and Peter Blegvad | ||||
| Released | March 1977 | |||
| Recorded | October 1976 | |||
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| Length | 36:43 | |||
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Virgin (UK) Europa (US) Voiceprint Records Le Chant du Monde |
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| John Greaves and Peter Blegvad chronology | ||||
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| AllMusic |
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| Babyblaue | 11/15 |
Kew. Rhone. is a concept album by British bass guitarist and composer John Greaves, and American singer-songwriter and guitarist Peter Blegvad. It is a song cycle composed by Greaves with lyrics by Blegvad, and was performed by Greaves and Blegvad with vocalist Lisa Herman and others. The album was recorded in in October 1976, and was released in the UK in March 1977 by Virgin Records, credited on the front cover to "John Greaves, Peter Blegvad and Lisa Herman", but on the record label as "John Greaves and Peter Blegvad". It was issued in the US in 1978 by Europa Records.
Blegvad's lyrics on Kew. Rhone. are filled with "anagrams, palindromes and other verbal games".
An enhanced CD version of Kew. Rhone. was issued by Voiceprint Records in 1998 which included an interactive multimedia track entitled "Kew. Rom.". The album was a critical success, but failed commercially; AllMusic called it "an unfortunately neglected masterpiece of '70s progressive rock."
John Greaves, from the English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and Peter Blegvad, from the German/English avant-pop trio Slapp Happy, first worked together during the merger of the two groups in England in 1974. Slapp Happy and Henry Cow recorded their first collaboration album, Desperate Straights in late 1974, and the song "Bad Alchemy" from the album was Greaves and Blegvad's first collaborative songwriting effort. After the two groups recorded their second album, In Praise of Learning in early 1975, the merger ended and Blegvad moved to New York City. There Blegvad spent the rest of the year earning a living as an illustrator, which included drawing backgrounds for Peanuts animated films. Early the following year Greaves left Henry Cow and joined Blegvad in New York City to start work on the Kew. Rhone. project, with funding from Virgin Records, Henry Cow and Slapp Happy's record label at the time.
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