The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow

The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow
A black and white photograph of a road with mountains in the background; on the road is Henry Cow's touring bus coloured yellow; at the top of the image over the sky are the letters "Henry Cow" in yellow reflecting on the clouds
Box set by
Henry Cow
Released24 November 2019 (2019-11-24)[1][better source needed]
Recorded1971–1978
Genre
Length975:40 (excluding bonus CD)
LabelRecommended (UK)
ProducerHenry Cow
Henry Cow chronology
The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
(2009) 		The Henry Cow Box Redux: The Complete Henry Cow
(2019)

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. The box set comprises the previously released 2006 Henry Cow Box (excluding the bonus CD-single: "Unreleased Orckestra Extract") and the 2009 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set (including the bonus CD: A Cow Cabinet of Curiosities), totalling over sixteen hours. A bonus CD: Ex Box – Collected Fragments 1971–1978 was given to advance subscribers of the 2019 Box Redux, and contains newly recovered and previously unreleased recordings, plus the contents of the 2006 box set bonus CD-single: "Unreleased Orckestra Extract". The 2019 Box Redux plus the Ex Box bonus CD contains all the officially released studio and live recordings of Henry Cow, excluding "Bellycan" as released on the 1991 East Side Digital version of Legend,[a] and the complete version of "The Glove" from the 1991 East Side Digital version of Unrest.

The Henry Cow Box Redux was released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the formation of Henry Cow. Included in the box set are three 60-page booklets: Book 1: The Studio Volumes 1–7; Book 2: The Road Volumes 8–12; and Book 3: The Road Volumes 13–17. All the studio CDs were remastered by Bob Drake. RēR Megacorp also released the Ex Box bonus CD as a free-standing album.

In December 2022, a supplemental CD was released, Volume 20: Glastonbury and Elsewhere containing unreleased material uncovered after the release of the Redux box set in 2019.

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