Canterbury Appreciation

been diggin this stuff more and more recently

Oh, don't worry about it, my friend!

I think I'm `One of the Few', to quote Mr Waters, who is not a fan of the vocal tones of Mr Wyatt on those early Soft Machine albums, even though I quite like the music. I think I much prefer the later instrumental period. All I was mentioning was his voice, nothing more, but I'm glad others can appreciate his work on other levels.

Kind of like Professor Frink on the Simpsons playing with that toy mower with the coloured balls in it!

Frink: Mwa-hey, bwa-hai. The compression and expansion of the longitudinal waves cause the erratic oscillation, you can see it there, of the neighbouring particles.

(A little girl attracts Professor Frink's attention.)

Frink: Yes, what is it, what, what is it?

Little Girl: Can I play with it?

Frink: No you can't play with it, you won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do... Mm-hai bw-ha whoa-hoa. The colours, children. Mwa-ha-lee.

Also. I know genesis really can't be totally regarded as a canterbury band, but I'm thinking on the level of psyche rock not jazz rock fusion of course cause they're is nothing overly jazzi with genesis. No sir, but maybe Gong would be a more suitable choice. They are very good. The trilogy is pretty cool. I see and hear why so many love it. it's radical and it was music that was incredibly fresh during the late 1960's to early 70's.

Also. I know I may be odd for saying this, but Genesis's watcher of the skies reminds me a lot of that flower power psych rock sound. Maybe it's the sound of the moog in the intro. I don't know.

^ yeah I can't tell sometimes with the mellotron. It can sound like so many other instruments including the reedus flute, glockenspiel and can mimic an organ as well. Your good friend Tom corrected me once one time where 'creepy music' was the forum topic and I had mentioned as a 6 year old that the ending of strawberry fields has a really creepy flute solo that would freak the living sh*t out of me. Turns out, and tom is right on this, that its not a flute that creeped me out all those years....it's that mimicking mellotron once again that has me stumped. Lol

Thank you for the correction. :)

sagichim wrote: I saw in a few threads that Camel are sometimes regarded as Canterbury, personally I don't see the slightest resemblance for it.Just mentioning...

Sagi, I tend to think of Camel as being kind of a `default' Canterbury band, don't know if it's the presence of Richard Sinclair for a while, or more likely those earlier tracks with the fuzzy organ solos? I remember discussing this with Tom Ozric a while back, but I don't recall what answer we ended up with!

Camel's Six Ate is very close to a canterbury song (without words), and is for me the highlight of the band.

I have a fascination with EGG. Most people think they are rubbish- but i think the 'Civil Surface' and 'the Polite Force' are amazing- and the former grows on you over a long time- the mixing is terrible, but it is a great record. Mont Campbell, in my view is a very clever man- who wrote pretty much all of the material. He, like Zappa, was influenced considerably by Stravinsky when he wrote a lot of the material and it shows in the writing. Here is an archives clip of 'A visit to Newport Hospital' that i found today. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbu6YEjigAk 

'Rubbish' is probably a bad way of putting it- but i think they get overlooked by many, by the likes of Hatfield and Soft Machine. 

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: I That `Civil Surface' album has really grown on me over the last few months!

Edited by IGNEO1991 - June 21 2013 at 12:03

If you have some time (not to flaunt my stuff)- but i made a couple of tracks inspired by National health and Egg- a couple of demos that are ust rough mixes. https://soundcloud.com/ZOPPofficial