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greenback 
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Posted: February 22 2005 at 23:51 |
canterbury is one of the less well defined prog sub genre. when someone asks me what is canterbury style, i answer it is a progressive sub genre which sounds a bit like Caravan or Soft Machine!
canterbury is richard sinclair 's voice; canterbury is this feeling that slightly distorted organ & electric guitar perfectly merge together. canterbury is those tender fender rhodes notes combined with very low frequency pitched rhythmic synthesizers. canterbury is those jazzy keyboards sounding like muted saxophone solos! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH....HOLY CANTERBURY! WISH I WERE BORN THERE!
so, i choose caravan!
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 00:01 |
st-dunstan:
below is OUR canterbury: quebec city! do you notice the similitudes??
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 02:52 |
Been to both of them (cities) and loved them both. Sloche is the greatest band out of Quebec city.
For Canterbury: toss-up between Caravan and the Machine. went for Caravan because they still exist. Gong to me is also a favorite but was from across the Chunnel in Normandy.
BTW , just outside St Dunstan's gate is a second-hand record shop that sells interesting stuff. Still exists nowadays ????
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 02:57 |
I only know Gong and Caravan from this list, I still have to listen to Hatfield And The North and Soft Machine, the rest doesn't sound to appealing to me for now (maybe if I like Hatfield and SM I'll dig deeper into canterbury).
For now I like both Gong and Caravan, the latter get's my vote for now, because it's more what I expected from the Canterbury sound.
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 05:15 |
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Tough fight for me between Caravan (my favourite Canterbury band) and
Hatfield And The North (whom I picked because they were also great and
were more representative of what I believe to be the Canterbury sound)
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 05:47 |
 greenback wrote:
canterbury is one of the less well defined prog sub genre. when someone asks me what is canterbury style, i answer it is a progressive sub genre which sounds a bit like Caravan or Soft Machine!
canterbury is richard sinclair 's voice; canterbury is this feeling that slightly distorted organ & electric guitar perfectly merge together. canterbury is those tender fender rhodes notes combined with very low frequency pitched rhythmic synthesizers. canterbury is those jazzy keyboards sounding like muted saxophone solos! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH....HOLY CANTERBURY! WISH I WERE BORN THERE!
so, i choose caravan!
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Very nice hommage greenback, and few people notice how much the one and only Richard Sinclair has done for Caravan, Hatfield &Camel plus his solo records, with his voice, bassplaying and composing.
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Posted: February 23 2005 at 07:15 |
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Initially torn between Caravan & Hatfield & The North - eventually went for Caravan - I guess they pretty much typify 'that' sound.
As an aside, a few years ago, the Canterbury festival was revived, initially as a one day event, then to a full 3 day-er. Over the first couple of years, it was a great prog festival, with performances by Caravan, Porcupine Tree, 21st Century Schitzoid Band, Fish, Hawkwind (both Dave Brock and Nick Turner's versions - not the same year!), Love, Arthur Brown, Jack Bruce....
The third year was to be headlined by a bunch of reformed early-1990's 'Madchester' bands; apparently, Camel offered to play, as did Caravan..... they were both told their music wouldn't be "appropriate".
We didn't go!
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