Slapp Happy, the Glossary
Slapp Happy was a German/English avant-pop group, formed in Germany in 1972.[1]
Table of Contents
71 relations: Acnalbasac Noom, AllMusic, Anthony Moore, Armageddon, Arrangement, Art Bears, Avant-garde, Avant-pop, Ça Va, BBC, Berlin, Bossa nova, Bremen, Cabaret, Cafe Oto, Carmaux, Channel 4, Chanson, Cologne, Composer, Comus (band), Dagmar Krause, Desperate Straights, Duke University Press, Experimental music, Faust (band), France, Fred Frith, Geoff Leigh, German language, Graham Preskett, Hamburg, Henri Rousseau, Henry Cow, Hyde Park, London, Ian MacDonald, In Praise of Learning, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Japan, Jazz, Lindsay Cooper, Live in Japan (Slapp Happy album), Lotte Lenya, LP record, NME, Opera, Oxfordshire, Peter Blegvad, Polydor Records, Pop music, ... Expand index (21 more) »
- Avant-pop groups
- British experimental rock groups
- German experimental rock groups
Acnalbasac Noom
Acnalbasac Noom (also known as Slapp Happy or Slapphappy) is a studio album by German-British avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in Wümme, Bremen, Germany in 1973 with Faust as their backing band.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore (also known as Anthony More) (born 13 August 1948) is a British experimental music composer, performer and producer. Slapp Happy and Anthony Moore are Virgin Records artists.
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Armageddon
According to the Book of Revelation in the New Testament of the Christian Bible, Armageddon (Late Latin: Armagedōn; from Hebrew: Har Məgīddō) is the prophesied location of a gathering of armies for a battle during the end times, which is variously interpreted as either a literal or a symbolic location.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition.
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Art Bears
Art Bears were an English avant-rock group formed during the disassembly of Henry Cow in 1978 by three of its members, Chris Cutler (percussion, texts), Fred Frith (guitar, bass guitar, violin, keyboards) and Dagmar Krause (vocals; previously of Slapp Happy). Slapp Happy and Art Bears are British experimental musical groups and English rock music groups.
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
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Avant-pop
Avant-pop is popular<!--- Do not change to "pop", per source, "By this I mean a form of popular music that is self-consciously experimental, new, and distinct from existing forms..." ---> music that is experimental, new, and distinct from previous styles while retaining an immediate accessibility for the listener.
Ça Va
Ça Va (French for "okay", literally "that goes") is a studio album by German/British avant-pop trio Slapp Happy, featuring Anthony Moore, Peter Blegvad and Dagmar Krause.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Berlin
Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.
Bossa nova
Bossa nova is a relaxed style of samba developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Bremen
Bremen (Low German also: Breem or Bräm), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (Stadtgemeinde Bremen), is the capital of the German state of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (Freie Hansestadt Bremen), a two-city-state consisting of the cities of Bremen and Bremerhaven.
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
Cafe Oto
Cafe Oto is a venue for free jazz, experimental and free improvisation performances located in the Dalston district of London, United Kingdom.
Carmaux
Carmaux (Carmauç) is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.
Channel 4
Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.
Chanson
A chanson (chanson française) is generally any lyric-driven French song.
Cologne
Cologne (Köln; Kölle) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
Comus (band)
Comus are a British progressive folk band who had a brief career in the early 1970s.
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Dagmar Krause
Dagmar Krause (born 4 June 1950) is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups including Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears.
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Desperate Straights
Desperate Straights is a collaborative studio album by British avant-rock groups Slapp Happy and Henry Cow.
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Duke University Press
Duke University Press is an academic publisher and university press affiliated with Duke University.
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Experimental music
Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions.
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Faust (band)
Faust (English: "fist") are a German rock band from Hamburg. Slapp Happy and Faust (band) are German experimental rock groups and Virgin Records artists.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Fred Frith
Jeremy Webster "Fred" Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improviser.
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Geoff Leigh
Geoff Leigh (born 5 October 1945) is an English jazz and progressive rock musician, playing primarily soprano saxophone and flute.
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German language
German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.
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Graham Preskett
Graham Donald Harry Preskett is a British composer and musician who has been active since the early 1970s.
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Hamburg
Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910) at the Guggenheim was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner.
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Henry Cow
Henry Cow were an English experimental rock group, founded at the University of Cambridge in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Slapp Happy and Henry Cow are Virgin Records artists.
Hyde Park, London
Hyde Park is a, historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London.
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Ian MacDonald
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was an English music critic, journalist and author, best known for both Revolution in the Head, his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from art historians, and The New Shostakovich, a study of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
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In Praise of Learning
In Praise of Learning is a studio album by British avant-rock group Henry Cow, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor studios in February and March 1975, and released in May 1975.
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Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Lindsay Cooper
Lindsay Cooper (3 March 1951 – 18 September 2013) was an English bassoon and oboe player and composer.
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Live in Japan (Slapp Happy album)
Live in Japan is a 2001 live album by German-British avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded in Tokyo, Sapporo and Kyoto, Japan in May 2000.
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Lotte Lenya
Lotte Lenya (born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer; 18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian-American singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, specifically a phonograph record format characterized by: a speed of rpm; a 12- or 10-inch (30- or 25-cm) diameter; use of the "microgroove" groove specification; and a vinyl (a copolymer of vinyl chloride acetate) composition disk.
NME
New Musical Express (NME) is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon) is a ceremonial county in South East England.
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Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad (born August 14, 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, writer, and cartoonist. Slapp Happy and Peter Blegvad are Virgin Records artists.
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Polydor Records
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group.
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Pop music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.
Rapping
Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular".
Recommended Records
Recommended Records (RēR) is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler with Nick Hobbs in March 1978.
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Richard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate best known for co-founding the Virgin Group in 1970, which today controls more than 400 companies in various fields.
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Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician. Slapp Happy and Robert Wyatt are Virgin Records artists.
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Rock in Opposition
Rock in Opposition or RIO was a movement representing a collective of progressive bands in the late 1970s united in their opposition to the music industry that refused to recognise their music.
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Sampling (music)
In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording.
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Shibuya
is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis, Japan.
Slapp Happy (album)
Slapp Happy (also known as Casablanca Moon) is a studio album by German/British avant-pop group Slapp Happy, recorded at Virgin Records' Manor Studio in 1974.
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Sort Of
Sort Of is the debut studio album by the avant-rock band Slapp Happy.
Tango music
Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European and African immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").
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The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (also known as The Road) is a nine-CD plus one-DVD limited edition box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow, and was released by RēR Megacorp in January 2009.
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The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow
The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow (subtitled 50th Anniversary Box) is a seventeen-CD plus one-DVD box set by English avant-rock group Henry Cow; it was released by RēR Megacorp in November 2019.
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The Manor Studio
The Manor Studio (a.k.a. the Manor) was a recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire, England, north of the city of Oxford.
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The Wire (magazine)
The Wire (or simply Wire) is a British music magazine publishing out of London, which has been issued monthly in print since 1982.
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Top Gear (radio programme)
Top Gear was a BBC Radio programme broadcast between 1964 and 1975.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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V2 Records
V2 Records (or V2 Music; V2 being an abbreviation for Virgin 2) is a record label that was purchased by Universal Music Group in 2007, sold to PIAS in 2013 and partially acquired by Universal in 2022 (as part of larger PIAS 49% equity acquisition).
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Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.
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Voiceprint Records
Voiceprint Records was a British independent record label based in England, founded in November 1990 by Rob Ayling.
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Waltz
The waltz, meaning "to roll or revolve") is a ballroom and folk dance, normally in triple (4 time), performed primarily in closed position.
War (Henry Cow song)
"War" (originally entitled "War (Is Energy Enslaved)") is a 1975 song composed by Anthony Moore with lyrics by Peter Blegvad for the English avant-pop group Slapp Happy.
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See also
Avant-pop groups
British experimental rock groups
- Delicate AWOL
- Guapo (band)
- JBK (music)
- Moonshake
- Slapp Happy
- Teeth of the Sea
- The Ocean Fracture
- Toy Horses
German experimental rock groups
- Can (band)
- Cassiber
- Exmagma
- Faust (band)
- Podsdarapomuk
- Slapp Happy
- Station 17
- The Blackbirds (German band)
- To Rococo Rot
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapp_Happy
Also known as Slapphappy.
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