Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
Guy Segers ("Univers Zero", "Present", "Guts!", and several others) maintains an invaluable archive on Bandcamp, comprising tracks he composed or at least participated in someway. While browsing this extensive list, I was quite excited to find Tim Hodgkinson's 17-minute epic "Hold To The Zero Burn, Imagine" from his 1994 solo album "Each In Our Own Thoughts" there, too. Written back in 1976, and played live by "Henry Cow" from 1976 to 1977, it sounds like the logical continuation of "In Praise Of Learning", but was never recorded then. Only much later, Tim Hodgkinson invited a couple of essential "Henry Cow" members, comprising Dagmar Krause (vocals), Lindsay Cooper (bassoon), and Chris Cutler (drums), along with several other excellent musicians like Guy Segers on bass, to finally record a worthy version of this great composition. This track already casts shadows of the more free-form writing style that became Tim Hodgkinson's trademark on his later works.