Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad ( born August 14, 1951 in New York City ) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the band Slapp Happy, worked with Henry Cow and recorded a number of solo albums, including several in collaboration with other artists.
Life and work
The son of the New York children's book author Lenore Blegvad ( born Hochman ) and the Danish illustrator Erik Blegvad ( 1923-2014 ) grew up in Connecticut, until his family moved to England in 1965, including out of concern for the possible convening of her sons Peter and Kristoffer for military service in Vietnam.
Peter Blegvad and Anthony Moore, both students at St. Christopher School in Letchworth, played in various bands. In 1972 Blegvad Moore to Hamburg. Along with Moore's girlfriend Dagmar Krause founded the avant- pop band Slapp Happy, which began its first two albums with the German rock band Faust. 1974 and 1975 played Slapp Happy with Henry Cow Artrockband the two albums, a; They also appeared together. Despite the success left by Moore and Blegvad the project to start a solo career, respectively. 1982/83, 1997 and 2000, there were short musical reunions of Slapp Happy; and the three musicians worked together on the 1991 television opera project Camera ( from an idea by Krause, Music: Moore, Text: Blegvad ).
Blegvad went to New York where he worked as a cartoonist, but without giving up music. In 1977, he took with John Greaves, bassist Henry Cow, the album Kew. Rhone on; this they were supported by Carla Bley, Michael Mantler and Andrew Cyrille. 1995 worked Blegvad and Greaves together again and brought out the album Unearthed. In the following years Blegvad recorded a number of albums, some in collaboration with other artists, especially former colleagues of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow.
Between 1992 and 1997 appeared in The Independent Blegvads comic series Leviathan. 2001 parts of the series were published under the title The Book of Leviathan in book form. 2013 the book was published under the title Le livre de Leviathan in French translation in 2014 and was honored at the 41st Festival International de la Bande Dessinée d' Angoulême with the "Prix Révélation ". More comics and illustrations Blegvads published in comic magazine The Ganzfeld and Ben Katchor Picture Story 2 for the British newspaper The Spectator developed Blegvad 2011, the format of the drawn book review.
For several years Blegvad produced under the title Static in the Attic radio plays for BBC Radio 3, which he describes as " Eartoons " ( Hörcomics ). In 2011 he was awarded for the radio Use It or Lose It with the Silver Sony Radio Academy Award.
Peter Blegvad are courses in creative writing to gifted young people at the University of Warwick in England.
In September 2012, the London Institute of ' Pataphysics published under the title The Bleaching Stream a book of interviews conducted by Kevin Jackson with Peter Blegvad.
Discography
Solo
- The Naked Shakespeare (1983, LP, Virgin )
- Knights Like This (1985, LP, Virgin )
- Downtime (1988, LP, Recommended Records )
- King Strut and Other Stories (1990, LP / CT / CD, Silvertone )
- Just Woke Up (1995, CD, East Side Digital)
- Hangman's Hill ( 1998, CD, Recommended Records )
- Choices Under Pressure (2001, CD, Voiceprint )
Bands and projects
- Sort Of (1972, LP, Polydor )
- Slapp Happy (1974, LP, Virgin )
- Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin ) as Slapp Happy / Henry Cow
- In Praise of Learning ( 1975, LP, Virgin ) as Henry Cow / Slapp Happy
- Acnalbasac Noom (1980, LP, Recommended Records )
- Ça va (1998, CD, V2 Records)
- Camera (2000, CD, Voiceprint ) as Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore
- Live in Japan (2001, CD, F.M.N. Sound Factory)
- Kew. Rhone. (1977, LP, Virgin )
- Dr. Huelsenbeck Mental healing method - Dada (1992, LP, Rough Trade )
- Unearthed (1995, CD, Sub Rosa )
- Of Queues and Cures (1978, LP, Charly )
- Smell of a Friend (1988, LP, Iceland )
- Orpheus - The Lowdown (2003, CD, Pony Canyon )
- Gonwards (2012, CD, Ape House)