''Each in Our Own Thoughts'' is a 1994 solo album by English

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composer and performer Tim Hodgkinson from Henry Cow. It is his second solo album, after ''Splutter'' (1985), and comprises six unreleased pieces composed by Hodgkinson between 1976 and 1993. They were recorded in 1993 and co-released in 1994 on CD by Woof Records in the United Kingdom and Megaphone Records in the United States.

Content

''Each in Our Own Thoughts'' consists of three instrumental pieces and three songs. The music varies from

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to avant-rock: there is a

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("String Quartet 1"), two works for small ensembles ("A Hollow Miracle" and "Palimpsest"), a piece for samples and multiple horns ("From Descartes' Dreams"), a piece for

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-instruments ("Numinous Pools for Mental Orchestra"), and an unrecorded Henry Cow number from 1976 ("Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"). Hodgkinson composed the music for all the tracks and wrote the lyrics for "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine"; Chris Cutler wrote the song texts for "A Hollow Miracle" and "Palimpsest". Hodgkinson does not perform on "String Quartet 1". " Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" was originally composed by Hodgkinson for Henry Cow as "Erk Gah" in 1976 and was performed regularly by the band between 1976 and 1978. It was scheduled to be recorded in

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in early 1978 for their next album, but objections from some of the band members over its revised lyrics resulted in it being shelved. Henry Cow broke up in mid-1978 and "Erk Gah" was never recorded in the studio. Three live recordings of "Erk Gah" appear in '' The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set'' (2009). The recording of "Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" in 1993 (with the original "Erk Gah" lyrics) was a Henry Cow reunion of sorts in that four of the musicians that played on this track were from the original band: Tim Hodgkinson, Chris Cutler, Lindsay Cooper and Dagmar Krause.

Reception

In a review in ''Exposé'', Mike Borella called ''Each in Our Own Thoughts'' "an important and invigorating release" that is a "high-water mark for

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alumni". He said that despite its mix of "avant-garde, post-classical ndstructurally complex music", it remains "cohesive in itself", and "is a must" for Henry Cow fans. Borella felt that although the "synergy of group composition" is lacking, he gave the album his " ghest recommendation".

Track listing

#"A Hollow Miracle" ( Hodgkinson, Cutler) – 4:18 #"String Quartet 1" ( Hodgkinson) – 11:09 #"From Descartes' Dreams" ( Hodgkinson) – 6:32 #" Hold to the Zero Burn, Imagine" ( Hodgkinson) – 16:43 #"Palimpsest" ( Hodgkinson, Cutler) – 4:13 #"Numinous Pools for Mental Orchestra" ( Hodgkinson) – 9:55 Source: Liner notes.

Track notes and personnel

#Composed in 1993 around texts by Chris Cutler. #* Dagmar Krause – voice #* Tim Hodgkinson – piano, viola, bass guitar, sampling, sequencing #The first of four pieces for strings composed in Grenoble,

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in 1993. #* Charles Mutter – violin #* Chris Brierley – violin #* Helen Kamminga – viola #*

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– cello #An

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derived from "Three Dreams of Descartes", a larger work composed in 1991 in which a philosopher's rational self confronts personal demons. #* Tim Hodgkinson – bass clarinet, clarinet, alto saxophone, sampling, sequencing #Composed for Henry Cow in 1976 as "

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" and performed in concerts by the band in 1976–1978, but never recorded in studio. #* Dagmar Krause – voice #* Chris Cutler – drums #*

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– guitar #* Lindsay Cooper – bassoon #* Richard Bolton – cello #* Guy Segers – bass guitar #* Dominic Weeks – xylophone #*

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– flute #* Clarissa Melville – flute #* Jonathan Impett – trumpet #* Tim Hodgkinson – keyboards, alto saxophone, clarinet #Composed in 1992 around texts by Chris Cutler. #* Dagmar Krause – voice #*

– flute #* John Impett – trumpet #* Raúl Díaz – French horn #* Guy Segers – bass guitar #* Tim Hodgkinson – piano, percussion #* Rick Wilson – percussion #Composed in 1986 for a real orchestra and later recorded on a computer and revised for

-instrumentation. #* Tim Hodgkinson – sequencing Source: Liner notes.

Production

*Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 5 recorded and mixed by Dominique Brethes at Wolf Studios,

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*Track 2 recorded live at Bottolph Clayden by Tim Hodgkinson *Track 6 recorded direct to DAT from

-instruments by Tim Hodgkinson

References

External links

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''Each in Our Own Thoughts''
''Dagmar Krause: The Voice of Armageddon''.

''The Canterbury Website''. {{Authority control 1994 albums Albums produced by Tim Hodgkinson Tim Hodgkinson albums