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Posted: July 02 2008 at 17:40

Oh come on James, I answered Dick's question a whole 14 minutes before Tongue

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Posted: July 02 2008 at 17:57

Have a listen to this:

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"My new group Ascended Masters just finished our new demo, and I think a lot of you would dig it. Imagine a group somewhere inbetween Happy The Man, Hatfield and the North, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, My Bloody Valentine, and the Cocteau Twins, with the oldest member of the group being 23, writing an album that is one continuous 45 minute piece of music, broken up into 3 discrete movements, each of which break into 3 discrete submovements. If any of that sounds appealing to you, you should check it out, at www.myspace.com/ascendedmastersga.

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Posted: July 02 2008 at 18:04

Harry: I posted that reply before I read your own Wink

Assaf: thanks! I'll check out their samples Thumbs%20Up

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Posted: August 20 2008 at 15:34

C'mon now people. Canterbury rules and you know it. Wink

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Posted: August 20 2008 at 15:42

I went to Canterbury on my vacation.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 09:25

Chameleon wrote:

I went to Canterbury on my vacation.

I don't think many Canterbury musicians live in Canterbury anymore - when I stayed there 2 years ago there was no indication the Canterbury musical genre was recognised anymore locally.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 09:34

Can't believe this thread died for so long.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 09:48

Dick Heath wrote:

Chameleon wrote:

I went to Canterbury on my vacation.

I don't think many Canterbury musicians live in Canterbury anymore - when I stayed there 2 years ago there was no indication the Canterbury musical genre was recognised anymore locally.

Isn't it true that even at the time the musicians that comprised the scene didn't really have much to do with the actual town of Canterbury? Forgive me for quoting wikipedia, but from the "Canterbury Scene" wiki entry:

There is debate about the existence and definition of the scene. Dave Stewart has complained at the nomenclature as he and many other musicians identified with the Canterbury scene never had anything to do with Canterbury, the place. The former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, who lives in Whitstable, near Canterbury, has said: "I think it's a rather artificial label, a journalistic thing... I don't mind it, but people like Robert [Wyatt], he in fact hates that idea, because he was born somewhere else and just happened to go to school here. In the time when the Wilde Flowers started we hardly ever worked in Canterbury. It wasn't until Robert and Daevid went to London to start Soft Machine that anything happened at all. They weren't really a Canterbury band [...] if it helps people understand or listen to more music then it is fine." ^[4]

Edited by NaturalScience - August 21 2008 at 09:49

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 09:52

^Indeed.
Canterbury is an unforgiving nomenclature in more ways than one.

But what is strange, given Canterbury (the city itself) is still a relatively small one in population, you would think somehow parents (of the older generation alive when Canterbury was at it's peak) would have really passed on the knowledge to their kids, but perhaps Canterbury is not as tight knit a community as you might think for a small city , which was even smaller back then obviously.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 13:31

A fair amount of record stores I went in usually had a decent, albeit tiny, collection of 'Canterbury Scene' albums, though usually it was limited to Soft Machine and Caravan.

I did get a photo of myself on the corner of St. Radigunds, though. That was neat.

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 14:46

ewwww look what the postman just dropped off

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Posted: August 21 2008 at 14:51

^^

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:09

It took a while, but I've fallen in love with Hatfield and the North. Hug

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:12

song_of_copper wrote:

It took a while, but I've fallen in love with Hatfield and the North. Hug

This puts such a big smile on my face. Big%20smile

And yet, I think you'll love National Health even better.

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:21

NaturalScience wrote:

song_of_copper wrote:

It took a while, but I've fallen in love with Hatfield and the North. Hug

This puts such a big smile on my face. Big%20smile

And yet, I think you'll love National Health even better.

Haha. I thought it would, Pat. LOL

I'd actually thought National Health might be my next experiment, having read that excellent Chameleon blog entry! I'll let you know what I think... Smile

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:22

song_of_copper wrote:

NaturalScience wrote:

song_of_copper wrote:

It took a while, but I've fallen in love with Hatfield and the North. Hug

This puts such a big smile on my face. Big%20smile

And yet, I think you'll love National Health even better.

Haha. I thought it would, Pat. LOL

I'd actually thought National Health might be my next experiment, having read that excellent Chameleon blog entry! I'll let you know what I think... Smile

Please do - great to see this thread get resurrected from time to time.

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:23

Whilst Kultivator would be an even better purchase. Why?

Because you get that National Health, Soft Heap, Hatfield and the North, In Cahoots sound but with the added bonus of a Zeuhl feel as well.

The best of both worlds!

And their only album Barndomens Stigar has been recently remastered and is available from Wayside Music (albeit on the pricey side).

Wink

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:28

James wrote:

Whilst Kultivator would be an even better purchase. Why?

Because you get that National Health, Soft Heap, Hatfield and the North, In Cahoots sound but with the added bonus of a Zeuhl feel as well.

The best of both worlds!

And their only album Barndomens Stigar has been recently remastered and is available from Wayside Music (albeit on the pricey side).

Wink

As much as I am looking forward to Kultivator, everyone needs NH in their collection, and especially Melissa.

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Posted: September 03 2008 at 10:30

NaturalScience wrote:

As much as I am looking forward to Kultivator, everyone needs NH in their collection, and especially Melissa.