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Nogbad_The_Bad ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() RIO/Avant/Zeuhl & Eclectic Team Joined: March 16 2007 Location: Boston Status: Offline Points: 21296 |
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National Health are one of the absolutely essential core Canterbury bands with Caravan, Hatfield, Gong & Soft Machine. First two albums are outstanding. Tenemos Road is the greatest opening track on a debut album by anyone, ever, IMHO.
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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OCARINAH French band Ocarinah's one and only album "Premiere Vision de L'etrange" literally translates as "First Vision of the Strange", and it is indeed my first sighting of this strange Gallic album. And just as this exotic, garlic-flavoured album may not be to everyone's taste, the ocarina itself is a strange-looking musical instrument, looking like some kind of futuristic weapon in Star Trek, or resembling an Art Deco hair-dryer. ![]() ![]() ![]() Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 13 2023 at 11:29 |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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Grumpyprogfan ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: July 09 2019 Location: Kansas City Status: Offline Points: 12375 |
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National Health is one of my favorite bands. Was lucky to see them live in 1979. All three studio releases get five stars from me.
Paul, they also had a live album "Playtime" released in 2001. |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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Thanks Will. I just found the full Playtime album on YouTube and I'll give it a listen later on today. I'm listening to National Health's "Of Queues and Cures" right now, which is the perfect prescription for a post-Covid world. ![]() ![]() Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 14 2023 at 17:10 |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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Thanks for the info. I've never tried BandCamp though. I still remain inexplicably loyal to YouTube, despite them deleting three of my prog channels for no apparent reason. ![]() I'm not sure that The Muffins are to my tastes anyway. I prefer crumpets.
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Bandcamp gives money to artists, YT puts money in their own pockets.
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Ian
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PANTHEON The best Canterbury Scene album you've never heard! Pantheon are the brightest stars in the Orion nebula, and in the vast Pantheon of Prog, what could be more obscure than a stellar album of Canterbury Scene music from The Netherlands!?? Pantheon may be a long way from the dreaming spires of Canterbury, but this album still sounds better than many well-known Canterbury Scene bands who are much closer to home - such as Hatfield & the North and National Health for instance. ![]() ![]() |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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PAZOP Belgium aren't just famous for their chocolates and Brussels sprouts. No, they're famous for their Canterbury Scene music too. Well, not really, but they ought to be after hearing the weird and wonderful sound of Pazop. Make no mistake - this is classic Canterbury Scene music. You don't have to take my word for it though. Just take a look at Pazop's far-out, psychedelic album title, and that'll give you some idea of the weird and wonderful delights to be heard on this unique, one-off album treasure. Listening to this marvellous album is the most pleasure you'll ever gain outside of the bedroom. An absolute delight of lunatic genius! ![]() ![]() Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 15 2023 at 04:23 |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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I wonder why it is that many of the best Canterbury Scene bands featured here so far are from nowhere near the dreaming spires of Canterbury?
![]() For instance:- HenryTennis (Japan) The Lodge (United States) Moleslope (Japan Mr. Sirius (Japan) Pantheon (Holland) Pazop (Belgium) And still to come... Zyma (Germany) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Because the Canterbury Scene has been horribly mislabeled: it should be a Style, not a scene, because it represents a particular sound and style far more than a Cathedral town in which a few musicians passed through during the 1960s. |
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Well that clearly needs a large IMHO, if I look at the Canterbury chart the top 20 albums are covered by:- Caravan (3) Robert Wyatt (1) Khan (1) Gong (2) Hatfield & The North (2) National Health (2) Soft Machine (2) Supersister (1) Moving Gelatine Plates (1) Egg (1) Steve Hillage (1) Quiet Sun (1) Picchio Dal Pozzo (1) Cos (1) 75% of those are associated with the original Canterbury bands. |
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Ian
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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^ Well, I'm known for being opinionated.
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JOHN G. PERRY A musical nomad who's been involved with several Canterbury Scene bands over the years, most notably with Caravan and Quantum Jump, who are coming up here shortly. John J. Perry was the Lone Ranger, and Kimosabe say fill up your heap big pipe of peace for Tonto. ![]() ![]() Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 17 2023 at 01:48 |
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PICCHIO DAL POZZO (Woodpecker from the Well) are one of the more avanguardia Canterbury Scene bands, so this Italian band from Genoa may not be to everyone's tastes (unlike Genoa cake) and they're definitely not for the uninitiated. Picchio dal Pozzo's first self-titled album is regarded as a classic of the genre though, in England as well as in Italy. Pasta la vista, baby! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists THE POLITE FORCE Egged on by their mutual appreciation of Canterbury Scene music, this short-lived British quartet of Canterbury Knights only stayed together long enough to record one jazzy album, and if the name of the band sounds strangely familiar, The Polite Force also happens to be the the name of an album by Canterbury Scene band Egg, an experimental early-1970's threesome who preferred not to be yolked by more traditional forms of music. In fact, Egg had such a unique sound that they could never be accused of poaching songs from other bands. ![]() |
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Psychedelic Paul ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: September 16 2019 Location: Nottingham, U.K Status: Offline Points: 43284 |
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There goes my hard-boiled theory.
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PIP PYLE (1950-2006) ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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^Pip is one of my favorite drummers. I miss him.
He has three solo and two live albums. Three stars seems like a fair rating. ![]() |
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