Winter Songs is the second album of the avant-garde rock group Art Bears. It was the first record that the group recorded under this name. The first album of the band, Hopes and Fears (1978), came about when the three were still part of Henry Cow.
Winter Songs consists of fourteen short songs, composed by Fred Frith about poetic texts by drummer Chris Cutler. These politically-tinted texts were based on the stylobate of the Notre-Dame of Amiens. The album was recorded from November 22 to December 5, 1978 and mixed in Sunrise Studio in Kirchberg (Switzerland). Co-producer Etiene Conod played an important role in the creation of the album.
The album was released in 1979 on Ralph Records and Recommended Records (UK). The same year appeared on Ralph the single 'Rats and Monkeys' / 'Collapse'. In 1988, Winter Songs with the third and last album of the group, The World as it is Today (1981), was released on one CD. The album was reinstated in 2003 in the collection box The Art Box. Tracklist Musicians Production and cover
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