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We’ll try and figure out what the main elements of the elusive Canterbury sound are, and run through a quick who’s who of the members of the bands that comprised the scene. Among the bands ...
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- Is it Prog?
Mar 17, 2022 · This strange and entheral music that heralded from Canterbury England in the mid to late 60s, is seen as a tributory or sub-genre of prog. In this video we examine the origins of bands like...
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- Classic Album Review
- Offbeat Musical Adventures
- A Movement Blossoms
- A New Era
- Going Global
The genesis of the scene sounds like the plot of the least commercial coming-of-age movie ever made: A group of budding bohemian teens attend the progressive Simon Langton School in the cathedral city of Canterbury, spend the first half of the 60s discovering jazz and the avant-garde music together, and gear up for their own offbeat musical adventu...
At the start of 1969, Caravan released its own self-titled mission statement. Their wry perspective was apparent even in the album art, which showed the members atop pedestals in mock-dramatic poses. While more song-oriented and less anarchic than early Soft Machine, the first Caravan LP bears more than a few ‘Machine similarities, from the organ-d...
June 1, 1973, brought tragedy to the Canterbury scene. Robert Wyatt, who had more than one too many at a party, fell out of a fourth-floor window and permanently lost the use of his legs. He titled his 1970 solo debut The End of an Ear, but the accident truly brought about the end of an era for the scene, even though Wyatt would reinvent himself as...
You might not expect a sound as singular as Canterbury’s to translate to other nations but it spread all over Europe in the 70s, especially with the help of people like BBC tastemaker John Peel, who championed the Canterburians and brought just about all of them in for radio sessions that sent the music on an even wider trajectory. Moving Gelatine ...
What album first turned you on to the "Canterbury sound", and how did you come upon it? For me it was Egg - Egg, and I'm pretty sure I was just looking for stuff that heavily featured the Hammond organ.
Apr 17, 2015 · Steve Hillage, whose Canterbury credentials include Uriel’s Arzachel, Khan’s Space Shanty and his solo debut Fish Rising, was in Canterbury from 1969 to 1971. “There was a definite scene and style then, so I would say the concept of a ‘Canterbury Scene’ pre-dates 1973,” he states.
Apr 14, 2021 · In this BBC segment, edited out of a longer documentary on prog rock, they look at the roots of the Canterbury scene, what made it special, and how it fits into progressive music and rock in...
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Aug 10, 2023 · With its title coined by bassist Richard Sinclair when describing a sunset in his native Kent, the album is dominated by keyboardist Dave Sinclair’s tasteful use of fuzzed organ, which does so much to define the Canterbury sound.
