"Canterbury Scene" Recommendations
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Topic: "Canterbury Scene" Recommendations
Posted By: MillsLayne
Subject: "Canterbury Scene" Recommendations
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:20
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This is a sub genre of progressive rock that I've really been getting into lately and I've been buying up all the so called "classics" of said genre, but I was wondering what other albums were worth picking up? ------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow">  ht |
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:24
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Yummy!! Just to get a better picture before we all start posting our faves here - what are your most preferred of the ones you already have? It's just that Canterbury can be very melodic and suave, but it can also be cryptic and highly avant guarde in nature. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:27
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Supersister's To thee Highest Bidder and Quiet Sun's Mainstream are some of my favorites that seem to get overlooked. ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:39
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Ok then. Here are some you may fancy(I really love 'em): Amoeba Split. Spanish newcomer sounding remarkably like the old classic bands, yet without ripping any of them off. Pazop - Psychilis of a Lunatic Genius ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:48
American band The Muffins recorded a sweet little thing as their debut. Highly recommended ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:50
I actually just bought this and should be here any day now!
 Some of my favorite albums/bands:
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Soft Machine - Vol.1 - Seven
Gong - Camembert Electrique and the whole Radio Gnome Trilogy
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom ------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow"> ht |
Horizons wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 07:54
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Oh - I almost forgot! This band is from Italy, but they're all instrumental(at least there are no lyrics) and they recorded one heck of a beautiful album with their self-titled. Pichio dal Pozzo: ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 09:00
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One of my favorite subgenres of progressive rock, and probably the one that "got me started". Not even sure where to begin on recommendations, but I'll keep and eye on the thread and chime in again if anyone's missed anything. There's just a whole ton of stuff.
------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Ross369
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 09:26
cool!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:46
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Hi,
Canterbury, for me, starts with Soft Machine and Caravan ... all the others are "impostors". But you have to go back to 1966 and 1967 and their very early days so you can study things better!
The problem is where you take this ... because all of a sudden SM is three or four or five different bands and folks, and Caravan, of course, if you stick to the brothers alone, you have 10 different bands or so ... and chasing these things is crazy! But it is fun, and the more you chase ... the more music you find ... ohhh my gawd ... he was in Camel? ... and it goes on and on and on ... to the point that you wonder where you stop!
The jazzy-ier side is even more mixed and even goes to New York and back ... with some interesting connections and marriages.
All in all, when you get done and you think you can define something ... let us know! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 11:13
| There are actually many underground Canterbury titles mentioned in this thread..that I have yet to hear! gosh! How can you have it all? Early to mid period Caravan was interesting. I liked "For Girls Who Grow Plump In the Night" , "Land Of Grey and Pink" and most of you know the story. It's all about mood for me, but I do love their albums. Hatfield and the North....and National Health are 2 of my favorites. Robert Wyatt's "Rock Bottom" has this "feel" to it and I don't quite know what it is, but when I hear the music, I stare out then window and dream. Love it! |
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 12:03
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I'm so glad other guys like Canterbury on this forum and there is a new topic today... I might say that I'm really exited... excuse me if my post sound like an arse. 70s Hatfield and the North (2) and National Health (3 or Complete)... Bruford (3), egg (3), Pierre Moerlen's Gong (4) Matching Moles (2), Gilgamesh (2), Gowen-Miller-Sinclair-Tomkins (1), Moving Gelatine Plate (2), the first Henry Cow (Leg-End), Piccio Dal Pozzo (3), The muffins (Mana and Chrono)... Kenso (2,3,sparta,dreamhill), Ain Soph (hat and field, Marine, Mysterious forest) and Mr Sirius (2) from Japan... Pazop, Panthéon, John Greaves (kew rhone). And don't forget to buy Soft Machine - Bundles too. "NewSchool" bands : Antique Seeking Nuns, Volaré, Moom, Bandhada, Amoeba Split, SIXNORTH, A Triggering Myth (2 last), French TV (3 first), Radio Piece III, Tipographica, And there is a ton of fusion groups/albums that could have some similar lining like Tasavalan Presidenti, Pekka Pohjola, Uzva, Samurai, Granada, Maneige, Bubu, Kultivator (zeuhlish), Jacques Tollot (cinq hop = zeuhlish), Potemkin (Nicolas 2 = zeuhlish), Abus Dangereux (4ième Mouvement = Zeuhlish), Mahogany Frog If you ask me my favorites, I really dont know...every of those album have such a wonderfull taste. I'm always searching for that kind of feeling and often found new fusion or RIO albums with some similar lining. I'm actually at seeking into those genre to get my feelings back.
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 12:37
| All of the music mentioned is good that I know of (I have a particular thing for John Greaves et al's Kew Rhone, Cos and Picchio dal Pozzo of the recommendations). I've hardly heard any Canterbury Scene albums that were not good, or to my taste (Fish Rising didn't do it for me) But since you like Robert Wyatt, more Robert Wyatt albums (I like all of his albums, but Shleep might be a safe bet), and I would highly recommend Matching Mole. Also consider John Greaves' Songs which features Robert Wyatt. I'm a major Wyatt fan and have collected quite a few albums which feature him (News From Babel is good one with him as well as Mantler ones). |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 12:42
Kultivator were amazing. I recently got their one and only album and it's great. Anekdoten apparently were big fans of them. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:12
Thanks a lot for the recommendations so far, guys!  Looks like I have a lot to sift through, although a few of these are already on my "Albums To Get" list (Cos - Viva Boma, for instance). That Pichio dal Pozzo track was very entrancing!
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 14:35
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Nobody mentioned Khaaaaaaaaaaan! Also, Zyma is only Canterbury-sounding band from Germany that I'm aware of, and they're quite good: http:// http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=3069" rel="nofollow - www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=3069 ------------- |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 14:56
Wow surprisingly those are my least favorite releases from each artists, exluding Wyatt - never listened to his work. Not sure what you've heard out of the Canterbury Scene but Caravan's If I Could is miles past Grey and Pink. I even rate Plump and Waterloo Lily higher than it. Gong's Shamal and Gazeuse are my favorites, more traditional fusion but it's done perfectly. Quiet Sun is crazy fun, hope you enjoy it. It's one of my favorite Canterbury albums. I also think Khan is HIGHLY overrated and not that special. Sounds too dated, and it's quite boring. Moving Gelatine Plates has a great duo of albums, their first 2 are 4* efforts.
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 15:09
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Can a Canterbury band come from Athens Georgia? On PA it can. My friend had this album, and I don't remember a lot about it, but in the late 90s there was a LOT of buzz about it, particularly since the band was from Athens GA (right down the road from me) and played a Canterbury kind of prog. I remember it sounding very good, but there wasn't a whole lot of Canterbury around at the time, so it might just have been the novelty which impressed me. (edit: after sampling the track below, I think it still sounds good). http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5116" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=5116 VOLARE' - The Uncertainty Principle Found this track on Youtube, but the song title doesn't appear on either of the albums on PA. In any case, it's a good example of how they sound - very Hatfield and the North-y. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 18:02
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For Kultivator, true, there only one album is pretty amazing. They were singing
in their native langage wich looks like a tad like Magma’s Kobaian langage. Wyatt - rock bottom is a good canterbury album, really pleasant to listen too, more interesting than some Soft Machine imo, its Wyatt first solo album post Soft Machine and Matching Moles. Khan - Space Shanty is more space rock than Canterbury, with Dave Stewart (Egg, HatN, NH) on keyboard and Steve Hillage (Gong) on guitar... this album is often cited with the two first Egg albums. Like Horizons says, that sounds a tad vintage... but many early Canterbury albums also sound dated (I’m actually thinking about the 3 first SM and Caravan, Egg, the first of SuperSisters...) Like Logan, I haven’t really felt Steve Hillage - Fish Rising. Its a post Khan, similar to Gong trilogy era with some psychedelic/spacy lining. Sorry for Horizons but my favorite Caravan is still "In
the land of the grey and pink"... that was my introduction to the genre
even to prog rock music... I also like "Plump" and "if i
could", but not really
"waterloo lily" tho I like Quiet Sun too... a tad more fuzzy and abrasive than Hatfield but similar. A must have in your Canterbury collection for sure. John Greaves -
Kew. Rhone is often cited as a Canterbury album but in fact, this sounds more like
RIO meets Zeuhl meets Canterbury, its more like an avant-prog album... I find
this one weird but really nice to listen... Cos – Viva Boma
is a good choice. Buy it if you succeed to find it at low cost cause I
cannot... this album is in my wish list since a long time ago. I own “ train
robbery” . I don’t really
know Zyma, what I have eard didn’t succeed to convince me back in some years to
buy their album... might give another try tonight. Volaré –
Uncertainty Principle is one of my “newschool” fav, Memoire is good too but the
record sounds not very good. |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 18:14
Quoted for Irrefutable Truth |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 19:06
Well if you haven't already, you must hear both Hatfield & The North albums as well as the first two National Health albums and Egg's The Polite Force. It's mandatory, dammit!
------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 19:19
| All three of Egg's albums are great. I never really got big into Hatfield, but they are not bad. Nation Health's debut is fantastic, I've only heard the second one once but didn't dig it as much |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 20:18
Given your starting point I'd highly recommend the following bolded albums
It's pretty much essential to get the Hatfield, National Health, Matching Mole & Gilgamesh. |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: April 16 2012 at 21:14
Yeah, a lot of these recommendations WILL be in my collection fairly soon. My bank account isn't very happy about it.
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Posted By: Atoms
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 03:54
I agree on everything you said. I had the exact same "relation" with National Health's second album. I even rated it as a 2-star album for a while, but it really grows on you. Now I prefer it to the debut with a giant margin. But both are without any doubt 5-star albums for me.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 08:05
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Favorite Canterbury albums that i own. I would love to have more! Caravan - s/t, Ificoulddoitalloveragainiddoitalloveryou, In the land of Grey and PinkRobert Wyatt - Rock Bottom Hatfield and the North - Rotters Club Soft Machine - Third Matching Mole - s/t, Little Red Record Quiet Sun - Mainstream Gong - Angel's Egg Caravan's first is probably my favorite!  |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 11:11
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Hi,
I was actually thinking of Carla Bley and some of the other jazz folks that also show up all over the place.
It's been said that Nick Mason's album "Fictitious Sports" (probably the ONLY true Canterbury PF solo album EVER done!) is more of a Carla Bley album than it is anything else. It is also an album that Robert Wyatt runs a muck on it and it is a lot of fun, but not something that most PF fans (specially the DSOTM and WALL fans) will usually enjoy! This is fun for the sake of fun, not pointed music, although thinking that you are a mineralist might get you going ... hmmm ... wonder what kind of dope that is?
Consider following/checking the Sinclairs and the Millers that were in Caravan and then some ... it's the most incestupus family you ever saw, and makes me wonder if they are into music at all!
 NP: Caravan of Dreams - Richard Sinclair ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 14:32
Interesting
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Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 16:13
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Nice!!! I'm writing Mason "Fictitious sports" on my wishlist... I don't feel the canterbury touch I'm usually seeking in a canterbury album though... but it sounds like a crazy album with many interesting influences including the Floyds, RIO and some canterbury with Wyatt vocal. This is exactly what I was expecting while signing on PA forum... to discover new fusion and avant albums similar to zeuhl and canterbury. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 16:31
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Listed here on PA under psych, Hiro Yanagida made one fusion album with 1 and a half foot in the Canterbury lands called Hirocosmos. Highly recommended ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 17 2012 at 16:55
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I'm falling of my chair desk... literally... I need this one in my life. ok... Keep them coming ;3 |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 15:29
While I can get behind National Health and some of the better known things, there are a lot of them that are not as well known that are much more interesting ... when listening to Richard Sinclair's Caravan of Dreams, the first thing that stands out is ... ok ... it has its pop'y moments ... wait ... what's that? ... oh my gawd ... is he mumbling through a water pipe? ... and for me, it is what "Canterbury" really was about ... a lot of fun and different things, and not a style ... it was about the person or the music itself, and the names were invisible.
It's hard for me to sit here and appreciate the "canterbury" scene, in the way that folks are mentioning it ... when in the end, you will find ... good gawd ... where do I start defining this stuff? ... because it is way too different from album to album ... even though you might think ... that's a bit jazzy here ... but when you get over there and you have Lol Coxhill ... that's jazz'y ... but what is it ... and you go crazy defining it.
Canterbury, is more of an "enjoyment" than it is a "style" ... and for more appreciation of it, I would recommend listening to it for enjoyment and a different experience. If you are looking for a lable, I can tell you that none of these people enjoy lables and many of them are all over the place in terms of what and where they play!
Lastly ... so many of these folks are majors and professors in music ... it's not funny ... so yeah ... at times it is expected that the musical knowledge and playing and ability in this stuff is way further up the studious lather than otherwise! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Blobfish
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 16:03
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Hugh Hopper and Richard Sinclair's, 'Somewhere in France' is a nice collaboration. ------------- "Everyone has a time machine. The ones that take you back are memories; and the ones that take you forward are dreams." H.G. Wells |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 16:37
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I'm loving Quiet Sun's Mainstream. So happy I happened upon a review of it to get my attention because that is an awesome album. And I'm like that Hiro Yanagida song above. Still have a long way to go to get through all of these!
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Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 18:17
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I'm agreeing with a lot of what Moshkito said. There is this label called Canterbury for a bunch of bands and albums coming from this place and some guys somewhere else on the planet trying to do something similar. The human like to label things. That helps to search and find what you enjoy. This genre is really wide, like previously said in someone else post, you could have mindblowing stuff, complexe mainly avant or 90%jazz music under the same umbrella. My feelings about that kind of music and why I stick to it is because its this happ and /humoristic jazzy prog rock with nothing pretentious that can be played on a sunny sunday morning... drinking a tea... And this is what I'm searching. Under the canterbury label or not. The PA gives a few bands name and albums who label their music (or other has labeled for them) as Canterbury. You can easily pass in a few years (for me) through all the names under this umbrella and be really exited everytime someone find a new band or album suiting the "definition"... but this is not all. There is a ton of other albums that I find under other umbrellas (fusion, symphonic, avant/RIO...) that have similar sounds that bring my feelings back... but everytime I find a new one it was a chance... I wasn't expecting to hear some canterbury influences. In the mean time, those other genres are so wide and have so many bands that I cannot find every albums that suite my taste in music with canterbury influences. This is why I think a thread like this could help me and other to find some other bands and albums not listed into Canterbury that have similar lining or are influenced of. Bandhada – s/t, Open Cage (not listed in PA : really laidback fusion, easy listening, a tad lush) Radio Piece III - The Lost Puzzle aka “Tomato Pie Blues”, Tesseract & Monuments (Not listed in PA : Egg with 80s keyboard, complex but laidback, excellent) Combo FH – Vëci (Things) (Listed under RIO/Avant : Canterbury meets RIO, with some interesting/weird percussions) French TV - 3 firsts albums (listed under RIO/avant) Granada -
Espana Ano 75 (Listed under symphonic : Spanish symphonic with folkloric element and a jazzy edge that
makes everything sounding a tad like Canterbury) Maneige - Ni vent ni nouvelle (Listed under jazzrock/fusion, great RPQ band with a jazzy touch reminding me the canterbury scene) SIXNORTH – Prayer (listed under jazzrock/fusion : early 2000s Japanese new school band with many vets influences, sounds similar to HatN) Tasavalan Presidenti - Lambert Land (listed under jazzrock/fusion : Finish really colorful Canterbury-ish fusion album with vocal) Uzva – Niitoaika, Uoma
(listed under jazzrock/fusion : Finish New school instrumental fusion band, similar to Tasavalan Presidenti
“Lambert Land”, got the jazzy colorful element of Canterbury with some world
influences) Quantum -
Quantum (Brazil, 1983) (Listed under symphonic but the feeling I have listening to this
album reminds me some Canterbury albums) Samurai –
Samurai (truly a nice cross-over with fusion and the Canterbury humor, this
album got his own taste, sounds a tad vintage though) Tipographica
– God say I can’t dance (Listed under RIO/avant : crazy Japanese 90s band, really complex, similar to
Henry Cow “leg ends” even more complex... not an easy listening. They have done
4 albums but this is actually the only one available) Chance:RIsiko
– Sleep Talking (Listed under CrossOver : recent crossover band with a lot of Canterbury influences with
Rhodes and vibraphones, a tad dark but the album is a nice complete
masterpiece) and I could go on and on... this is where I need help from PA senior forum members. ;3 |
Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 18:23
^The Maneige, Tasavallan Presidentti and Samurai albums are great ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: April 19 2012 at 18:26
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I see Canterbury as more of a spirit, an attitude, than a style per se. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 07:49
I've always thought it was so ... and the quintessential piece was always the ABC piece by Soft Machine, and WHEN it was done and WHERE ... because at the time, I really think it was a bit of a college group, pretty much sending a finger to everyone around them that were not listening and didn't give a damn about the music ... the ABC's got the attention, and you could say that the rest is ... Canterbury!
But there are other links here as well ... there is a lot of Syd Barrett in Canterbury ... ohhh heck, him and all these other folks were living together! ... ohh wait ... there is a lot of Canterbury in Syd Barrett ... that doesn't sound right. Oh heck, there's a lot of Kevin Ayers in Canterbury ... oh wait ... those folks also played ... oh my gawd ... you're kidding me ... and it doesn't stop. That guy was in Camel? ... he doesn't play that stuff! ... he what? ...
It ends up bringing up a completely different appreciation for music and you learn quickly that they just play everything with anyone and everyone, and the only person that didn't show up was ... oh well, we'll use him instead! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 11:34
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^ I'm starting to get more how you are seeing the canterbury scene... For you, Canterbury is more than a specific genre where you hear this or that type of happy jazzy music. Its a musicians family that has lived something together in a particular atmosphere back in many years. That leads you, to see some albums as Canterbury albums that I considere more like folk/pop or something else (Syd Barrett, Kevin Ayers and Caravan of dream) and in the other way, jazzy happy prog music that I feel like Canterbury stuff but don't come from that specific time and place, you are seeing it like fusion or something else... I'm I right ? ok Good !
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Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 13:36
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I can't help with recommendations, as I'm just as unfamiliar with the scene; I'm a Canterbury noob. I only have Soft Machine's Third and Fourth, and Ive heard various things from many of the Shred guys.I also have all of The Tangent albums; many of their songs are highly influenced by the Canterbury scene. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/MysticBoogy" rel="nofollow - My Last.fm 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 13:57
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A band that sadly gets forgotten in the midst of all these delicious Canterbury acts(well maybe not moreso than some of these acts in this thread - as this easily is one of the more far fetching of the sort I personally have come across) is Dutch act Pantheon with their sole album Orion. Some pretty saucy stuff: ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: April 20 2012 at 14:15
We're our own breed.  ------------- Crushed like a rose in the riverflow. |
Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 21 2012 at 09:01
yesh, planty of nice colorful albums. Quiet Sun is definitly a great one. I have found this one later in my progression due to the fact that there were no major canterbury vet other than Bill MacCormick who were playing the bass in Matchin'Moles too...
mine comes in a digipack and sounds terrible... its a bit a shame cause yeah, the songs are great. This one from two well-known vets is really quiet. I like a lot. http://youtu.be/9QAvWPzfNC4" rel="nofollow - http://youtu.be/9QAvWPzfNC4 this one is Abraxis –
Abraxis, jazz-fusion group by the leader of Pazop, rare http://youtu.be/00lt-rm8bAw" rel="nofollow - http://youtu.be/00lt-rm8bAw a RPQ band named Opus 5 has done some nice fusion songs where i could hear some canterbury lining. I cannot really say if they were influenced by the canterbury scene or not http://youtu.be/ut5fN3Q2F1k" rel="nofollow - http://youtu.be/ut5fN3Q2F1k edit : I cannot embed the videos... dunno why. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: April 22 2012 at 13:56
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Hi,
IN general, for my tastes, the majority of Canterbury is too "style" oriented, as if the jazz'y style was more intellectual or academic ... and not many of those bands did very much rock oriented things.
In terms of "progressive", Khan (Steve Hillage) would be one of the exceptions along with Quiet Sun and I don't remember Egg too well right now.
The fusion style of the jazz thing is a bit overdone and "the same" for my ears. The part of Canterbury that I tend to listen to the most, would be (still) Kevin Ayers, who is still around doing his thing, Daevid Allen and Gong folks.
There are some Gong offshoots, but the funny thing is that most of them stick to the rock side of things or the meditative side of things, rather than the jazz thing, other than Daevid (on occasion) doing some of it just for fun and play. Of all the things I listened to here, the first one was the nicest for my ears, and the last one posted is very nice as well. Pantheon.
Would be nice to see more bands do this on the rock side of things ... instead of the jazz side. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: April 29 2012 at 20:33
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Found Caravan's If I Could... at a record shop this weekend, and I gotta say, while the album as a whole is enjoyable, "Can't Be Long Now/Francoise/For Richard/Warlock" is worth the price of admission alone.
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Posted By: Olivier!
Date Posted: April 30 2012 at 15:29
yep For Richard is a really nice track, comings before 9 feet underground... both are similar and are masterpieces. As I feel I die is great too, that thing grow on you.
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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: May 19 2012 at 20:15
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I've been listening to a lot of Hatfield and the North
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 19 2012 at 21:16
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Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: May 20 2012 at 02:01
| Listening to National Health, and Brujo is so amazing! So furious. Love the tightness of this Canterbury super group. |
Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: May 20 2012 at 03:29
------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: The Wrinkler
Date Posted: May 21 2012 at 01:03
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For the Rotter's Club fans. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 21 2012 at 02:56
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Wondeful! ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: May 21 2012 at 07:56
I think Hatfield And The North's S/T will be my next purchase (maybe after I complete my 70's VdGG collection).  ------------- http://gamercards.exophase.com/xbox/user/MillsLayne/" rel="nofollow"> ht |
Posted By: MillsLayne
Date Posted: May 29 2012 at 03:13
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I just finished "For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night" and really enjoyed the second half of this album. I was also surprised to hear a section of SM's "Slightly All The Time" in the last suite (I think it's called "Backwards"). Very cool album.
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