DOGGED BY DOGMA

As my first review, I choose an album that hasn't been reviewed yet, also an album which even when it's none of my favorites, is a quite nice record and I truly believe deserves more attention by Prog Rock listeners. Canterbury Scene, among other Progressive Rock styles, had an explosion in the late sixties and early seventies having as their most "important" (I think a better adjective would be popular) exponents bands like SOFT MACHINE, GONG and CARAVAN, bands that made remarkable albums experimenting with a whole bunch of instruments and being able to create really interesting mixtures of Psychedelic Rock and free Jazz without losing the characteristic sound that Canterbury style has itself. "Dogged by dogma" was recorded the next decade.

Even when there is not too much info about this band online, we can find two well-known names of the Canterbury Scene of the seventies: Dave STEWART (ARZACHEL, EGG, KHAN, HATFIELD AND THE NORTH, NATIONAL HEALTH, BILL BRUFORD BAND) AND Pip PYLE (DELIVERY, KHAN, GONG, HATFIELD AND THE NORTH, NATIONAL HEALTH, SOFT HEAP, DAEVID ALLEN BAND) among with a bunch of non-so-well-known musicians under the leadership of a guitar/organ player named Charlie SUMMERS who is not very easy to find info about online but he managed to form this interesting project.

The album is filled with really short songs (at least short in Progressive Rock measures), not a lot of instrumental passages and not very hard or improvised musical structures, however, the harmony of the music makes this album quite enjoyable and not at all boring. Probably if the band would have recorded more albums they would have created a strong cult of followers and maybe even opened the doors for more eighties Canterbury bands in Europe, sadly this was their first and last work.

Nor a very famous record, neither a masterpiece but truly an album that, as I said before, deserves more Prog-Rock fans to discover it and enjoy its uniqueness. If you haven't heard it yet, don't think about it twice, you could get a nice surprise.

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