IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS

CARAVAN is the monster that emerged from Canterbury in 1968. 10 years to bring out a baby in 2014, another 8 for this one; Pye remaining the only one active with Geoffrey coming soon after. Folk, rock and jazz, melodic pop first, progressive forays around certain tracks with individual solos and a warm and luminous sound; bridge between prog and psyche. A huge box set of 37 records covering their legacy titled "Who Do You Think We Are?" "Is released this year just before this memory album of their journey through musical time. In fact CARAVAN is just a musical dinosaur that I could only get into in this column.

"Down From London" sets the tone directly, country-style folk-pop-rock with Geoffrey's violin, that fits well with the story; the final cascading guitar solo, fresh, brings closer to the Canterbury atmosphere. "Wishing You Were Here" follows with a rhythmic ballad and its flight of instruments throughout the title, heavy rock evolution midway then the keyboards that smell of vintage. "It's None Of Your Business" with a sound à la DIRE STRAITS, bucolic for one of the two great pieces with snub on the music industry or what remains of it; it's fresh, it smacks of work to find a classical composition that unfolds so easily; little groove with a fresh keyboard that takes you to the Genesis territories, psyche violin,we are well at the genesis of rock when we took the time and that confirms the progressive imprint; a title that makes you say that making music sounds easy, ending with the return to the tune of the enchanted and dancing departure and a last rhythmic solo by Pye and Jan. "Ready Or Not" violin forward peeping over the JETHRO TULL but not CARAVAN also has a stamped viola sound; brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.a title that makes you say that making music sounds easy, ending with the return to the tune of the enchanted and dancing departure and a last rhythmic solo by Pye and Jan. "Ready Or Not" violin forward peeping over the JETHRO TULL but not CARAVAN also has a stamped viola sound; brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.a title that makes you say that making music sounds easy, ending with the return to the tune of the enchanted and dancing departure and a last rhythmic solo by Pye and Jan. "Ready Or Not" violin forward peeping over the JETHRO TULL but not CARAVAN also has a stamped viola sound; brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.end with the return to the tune of the enchanted and dancing departure and a last rhythmic solo by Pye and Jan. "Ready Or Not" violin forward peeping over the JETHRO TULL but not CARAVAN also has a stamped viola sound; brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.end with the return to the tune of the enchanted and dancing departure and a last rhythmic solo by Pye and Jan. "Ready Or Not" violin forward peeping over the JETHRO TULL but not CARAVAN also has a stamped viola sound; brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.brief samba aside on this track where bossa nova hints clearly ooze; always a frank dynamic and the cottony voice of Pye which completes to melt the listener not knowing any more if he is in the 70's or just now, superb. "Spare A Thought" and the acoustic, divine, simplistic ballad; guitar, violin, flute to imprint a bucolic, melancholy memory of life that passes and some that pass away, a title that flows naturally.self-evident title.self-evident title.

"Every Precious Little Thing" and another title which reminds me from afar the soaring DIRE STRAITS for rhythm guitar and especially the organ that seems to come from a church in Mississippi; it's more folk, rhythmic, dancing atmosphere, encouraging to enjoy the little moments of life, the aerial flute bringing back to Canterbury. "If I Was To Fly" and this American tune, punctuated between the banjo and the guitar, fresh, playful, giving in the festive title, a musical interlude in my opinion to remain cheerful and positive in this special year. "I'll Reach Out For You" for the 2nd long track; pop-rock intro agreed without progressive catch, basic tune at first, the song Canterbury according to me, goes everywhere, simple rock to DYLAN without particularity?. then drifts with an instrumentation, guitar and piano fine, notes which are scattered ,progressive drawers that open, this notion of progression that sets in, this flute, we remain stuck; bucolic freshness imparting an air of relaxation which is still remarkable for our time; the slap of the album in my opinion. "There Is You" begins jazzy with the piano, the spleen violin, the muffled voice; wink on DYLAN again; the piano seems to stop time and puts a beat of the positive melancholy color. We are far from rock however, we are perhaps in CARAVAN! "Luna's Tuna" and the last instrumental title, still spleen with this violin, these piano keys; the viola makes it possible to reflect on the notion of current music, of what it can print as a sensation at the level of our psyche; emotion which reminds me a little of the luxuriant research of David DARLING and which brings back to the present time.Ideal for meditating.

CARAVAN is releasing the consensual album at the end of the year 2021, offering here and there simple and effective notes. I read somewhere that 'the pigs will fly over grandma's lawn over and over again'. The legacy of the CANTERBURY is still present and shows how the progressive current can creep in everywhere. The more this feeling of listening to a young group; at least that of entering the world of CARAVAN and listening to everything again.