1975 avant-rock song written by Tim Hodgkinson for Henry Cow
For the Kalahari Surfers album, see Living in the Heart of the Beast (album).
"Living in the Heart of the Beast"
Song by Henry Cow with Slapp Happy
from the album In Praise of Learning
Released
9 May 1975 (1975-05-09)
Recorded
February–March 1975
Studio
The Manor, Oxfordshire, England
Genre
Avant-rock
Length
16:18 15:30 (remix)
Label
Virgin
Songwriter(s)
Tim Hodgkinson
Producer(s)
Henry Cow, Slapp Happy, Phil Becque
"Living in the Heart of the Beast" is a 1975 song written by Tim Hodgkinson for the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. It was recorded in 1975 by Henry Cow with Slapp Happy, who had recently merged with Henry Cow after the two groups had recorded a collaborative album, Desperate Straights the previous year. The song was released on In Praise of Learning in May 1975 by Virgin Records. The song's title is a quote from the nineteenth-century Cuban poet and liberation fighter José Martí.[citation needed] "Living in the Heart of the Beast" was the first of two "epic" compositions Hodgkinson wrote for Henry Cow, the second being "Erk Gah" (1976), later known as "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine".[1]
In 1986 "Living in the Heart of the Beast" inspired the title of the Kalahari Surfers' second album, Living in the Heart of the Beast.[2] Former Henry Cow members Chris Cutler and Hodgkinson had toured with the South African band across Europe in the mid-1980s and Cutler's Recommended Records had released several of their albums.[3] A jazz interpretation of "Living in the Heart of the Beast" was recorded by the Michel Edelin Quintet [fr] with spoken texts by John Greaves and released on their 2019 album, Echoes of Henry Cow.[4]
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