Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I personally prefer Antique Seeking Nuns over Sanguine Hum. Great band.

A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 05 2023 at 11:28

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I personally prefer Antique Seeking Nuns over Sanguine Hum. Great band.

I don't hear much difference in either band and prefer Sanguine Hum.

A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 05 2023 at 11:28

A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 05 2023 at 11:27

Jacob Schoolcraft wrote: This is a list of my Canterbury cds Caravan- Caravan If I Could Do It Again The Land Of Grey And Pink Waterloo Lily Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night New Symphonia Cunning Stunts Blind Dog At St. Dunstans Soft Machine Third Fourth Five Six Seven Bundles Egg-Egg The Polite Force The Civil Surface Hatfield And The North The Rotters Club National Health- National Health Of Queues And Cures DC Al Coda Missing Pieces Playtime Gilgamesh - Gilgamesh Another Fine Tune You've Got Me Into Arriving Twice Soft Heap Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard Gong Magick Brother Continental Circus Camembert Electrique Flying Teapot Angels Egg You Live Sheffield 74' Live Est Mort A Collection Shapeshifter Family Jewels Gong 2000 2032 I See You Love From Planet Gong ( box set) Live Longlaville Greasy Truckers at Dingwalls Dancehall Matching Mole- Matching Mole Little Red Record Michael Giles- Progress ( ex Caravan members)

A style of writing which developed because of most Canterbury musicians shifting around to different bands. Dave Sinclair, Mike Ratledge, Dave Stewart and Alan Gowen having similarities in their choice of chord progressions and voicing.

There are many comparisons. The chords for "Carol Ann" from Soft Machine Seven have similarities to chord progressions heard in the music of Caravan, National Health, Gilgamesh, Hatfield and the North, Egg, and Robert Wyatt.

In the 70s it wasn't a style that surfaced in bands like Weather Report, RTF, Miles Davis, or Herbie Hancock. It felt obsolete when I heard it. Some of its essence I felt through the early instrumental albums of Frank Zappa...for example, Grand Wazoo.

Chord progressions producing a dark sound had similarities played by different keyboardists and scattered throughout the music of Hatfield And The North and Gong. The piece "As If" from Soft Machine 5 is very reminiscent of a style heard in the music of Gong. "Shaving Is Boring" from Hatfield And The North actually sounds like the Gong band in 73' and 74'.

The way Dave Stewart was spoken to by a record executive made me ill. It sounds like what everybody else is doing? Really?
Or the Canterbury style was not commercially viable enough because it acquired a taste.. So that gives me the impression that anyone who chooses to think different and write different..they are only doing it out of self interest and nobody could ever have a principle but you huh? Charlie? Whatever your name is? 😃

dr wu23 wrote: Recommended to Canter bury heads..............

Excellent album

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Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 03 2023 at 06:39