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David_D
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The Wilde Flowers never got to that stage.
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Psychedelic Paul
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^ Nicely back on-topic again with The Wilde Flowers after that wild Stone Age excursion.
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Grumpyprogfan
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How about some Dinosaur Canterbury Rock?
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Psychedelic Paul
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My definition of Dinosaur Rock... Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 23 2023 at 18:03 |
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My definition of "true dinosaur albums": Albums by artists who had been active more than 10 years. Edited by David_D - October 23 2023 at 17:56 |
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I like their feathers.
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The original Monsters of Rock. Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 23 2023 at 17:26 |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Well, when it comes to Asia Minor, we're talking about the Byzantine era of prog.
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David_D
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But that's only the case when talking about UK Prog, and it can be different with Prog from other countries, like Asia Minor and Bacamarte. |
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No, they're the prime, classic Prog albums.
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Psychedelic Paul
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How can that be when Soft Machine's best album was released in 1981? And besides, aren't the true prog dinosaur albums supposed to be from the classic 1970's era?
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As you very probably already have noticed, true dinosaur albums (post-1979) are not much of my interest.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Thanks. I even gave Hatfield & the North's eccentric Rotters' Club album a positive 3-star rating too, so I guess my tastes in music can't be that bad after all, and talking of experimental styles, I just discovered today that Soft Machine have a new album out this year, so that's one to look forward to hearing later on in this blog.
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Now I've heard a couple of the first tracks of Mainstream, I can tell that with their raw electronics and very experimental style, they don't seem to me as typical Canterbury. I see some inspiration from Heldon and Stomu Yamash'ta, but I can't see how it could be possible to put some vocals to them - unless some very freaky type. Something else when considering your quite positive review of this album, it's maybe again an example of that your tastes are not quite as conservative as you like to call them.
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Psychedelic Paul
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A-Z of Canterbury Scene Music from Around the World
1992: Short Wave - Live - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvGzNASO8aA 1992: Richard Sinclair - Caravan of Dreams - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-8xeZHjl1E 1994: Richard Sinclair - R.S.V. P. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJs0ekgPyT8 1978: Soft Heap - Rogue Elephant - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1colrRPsKg 1979: Soft Heap - Soft Heap - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_2yK0b3YDU 1995: Soft Heap - A Veritable Centaur - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0EywTaVx_c 2008: Soft Heap - Al Dente - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Xx0-rh7fVc 1968: Soft Machine - The Soft Machine - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu2Lq_DV8ksSBDAsKQTWLQh 1969: Soft Machine - Volume Two - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtEaaflha32IyWIG4z83uAQ 1970: Soft Machine - Alive in Paris - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuOo1g0OGzZ-vXzKmEkZSZj 1970: Soft Machine - Third - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvSfC2pufabkdZ5Oty7BSgS 1971: Soft Machine - Fourth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lu_Vr8eXLBdjgXQ2-wrRsya 1972: Soft Machine - Fifth - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lsx4E8VoKv4YakLs2237xgs 1973: Soft Machine - Six - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Lt63Z0slMpNeaQY0cWettv0 1973: Soft Machine - Seven - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltf26e2tZFBg3APTuGNKH45 1975: Soft Machine - Bundles - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuBm0Ga3qBjdY2Oc3utjUoh 1976: Soft Machine - Softs - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvyLK7eC-z75etCxyfT4fAf 1976: Karl Jenkins & Soft Machine - Rubber Riff - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LuiJUCiuPd7XiZuYwdbmHsJ 1978: Soft Machine - Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvBVfX6SzmtW0Px4YHawIVI 1981: Soft Machine - Land of Cockayne - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1Ltd8PW6SVTN6uNdV_0sYJwQ 2018: Soft Machine - Hidden Details - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n-dzTtWvV1awr4cDbVEV69KJSGhLuJbGY 2023: Soft Machine - Other Doors - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kBmpQwX4JfWQ-iou603t02469-r__I8TA 2005: Soft Machine Legacy - Live in Zandaam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dHp8vRZxk 2007: Soft Machine Legacy - Steam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG4CDHBKMYE 2010: Soft Machine Legacy - Live Adventures - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9K7dkECjR0 2013: Soft Machine Legacy - Burden of Proof - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfhPNzfb_VUlFMVF4jkD1Tj1gebWzHhyf 2007: Soft Mountain - Soft Mountain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AYM47_QG4Y 2003: Soft Works - Abracadabra - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90wuHMT9DFU 2020: Soft Works - Abracadabra in Osaka (Part 1) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SNx_TXcDk4 (Part 2) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=076nKRVC8q4 1985: Stubbs - The Prime Moving Lumps - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luqJTY7SIzg 1970: Supersister - Present from Nancy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SurjxwfHNu8 1971: Supersister - To the Highest Bidder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU5026Bj3S0 1972: Supersister - Pudding en Gisteren - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwzcBzD-SsM 1973: Supersister - Iskander - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94yD3bq_ioU 1976: Supply Demand & Curve - Supply Demand & Curve - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1EX_7o7TWk Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 15 2023 at 12:47 |
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^ Interesting and well-written read, Paul.
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A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists
1975: Quiet Sun - Mainstream - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k5cj7CqlqUQyE7VXL7IlujXMjXlJQiDUI QUIET SUN were a short-lived, British Jazz-Rock combo. Their line-up included Phil Manzanera (of Roxy Music fame) on guitar. Their one and only album "Mainstream" (1975) has been described as Canterbury Scene music, although none of the London- based band members are actually from the city of Canterbury. After all, Canterbury Scene is more of a musical description than a geographical location. Although Quiet Sun split up in 1972, Phil Manzanera got the band together again in 1975 for a one-off studio session and this album was the result. Renowned record producer and former member of Roxy Music, Brian Eno, participated in the making of the album, although he wasn't credited as the album's producer. The 2011 CD reissue of "Mainstream" included five bonus tracks added to the original seven mostly instrumental pieces on the album. So, what can we expect from Quiet Sun's "Mainstream" album? One suspects that the band were being a little bit ironic with the "Mainstream" choice of album title. Is it going to be mainstream music or something a little more offbeat? Well, let's find out.
It's sunny side up for the 7-minute-long opening number "Sol Caliente" (Spanish for "Hot Sun"), a warm and inviting sunburst of fuzzy guitar-driven, psychedelic Jazz-Rock. This long uptempo instrumental piece really gives the musicians a chance to shine in a psychedelic jazz guitar freak out, with a nifty keyboard player in his element and with the drummer pounding away on his kit with frenetic energy as if his life depends on it. It's not exactly a toe-tapper, because your feet could hardly keep up with the frantic pace of this upbeat and offbeat piece of music with its unusually complex time signature, so just lie back and enjoy it. There's more funky fusion on the way with "Trumpets with Motherhood". It's anybody's guess what this bizarrely- titled piece of music is all about, because it's another instrumental number. You might at least be expecting to hear some trumpets though in a piece of music titled "Trumpets with Motherhood", but no, there's not a toot of a brass trumpet horn to be heard anywhere, because this is another uptempo fuzzy guitar and electric piano combination. It's less than two minutes long though so there's barely time to nip out the room and make a cup of tea, so you may as well stick around for the next number, "Bargain Classics". You're unlikely to find this rare album in the bargain classics section of your local store though, as it's a pretty hard album to get hold of these days. So, what does the music sound like you may well ask. Well, it's a very offbeat and "off-piste" piece of music in a highly irregular time signature, which is intricately complex and fascinating to put it kindly, but which is all over the place, to put it unkindly. It all depends on your point of view: if you're an aficianado of Jazz Fusion, then you may go into rhapsodies of delight upon hearing this musical mayhem, but on the other hand, if Jazz-Fusion is not your thing, then you may want to skip to the next piece of music, which is "R.F.D.". The meaning of the initials "R,F.D." are shrouded in mystery, but this is a pleasantly soothing, laid-back mellow number to close out Side One, so lie back, relax, and let the music play as the cares of the day drift away, because this gorgeous piece of music is like a bright ray of sunshine on a hot sandy beach. Side Two opens with one of the most bizarrely-titled pieces of music of all time: "Mummy was an Asteroid, Daddy was a Small Non-Stick Kitchen Utensil". It's just as well it's an instrumental piece, because if this song had lyrics, they'd probably make no sense at all, although that's never been a problem in the wierd and wonderful world of prog, where just about anything goes when it comes to song lyrics. Anyway, back to the music we have here, and it's another intense and fast-paced Jazz-Fusion freak out, which is *almost* as freaky as the track title implies, but don't let that put you off, because the music is very impressive. It's also pretty wild and "finger-licking" good, so be prepared to hear some fast and furious acid guitar riffs. We're off at a "Trot" for Song No. 6 now, a 5-minute-long piece of uptempo Jazz-Fusion which gallops along nicely to bring us to the closing piece of music on the album, "Rongwrong". It's another bizarre track title in an album full of peculiar and offbeat track titles, and at times, peculiar and offbeat music to match. "Rongwrong" is the longest song on the album at nearly 10 minutes in duration. It's also the first real song on the album, as it actually includes lyrics for the first time. If you think the song title is bizarre though, take a look at these off-the-wall lyrics:- "I'm looking in my little black book, to see if I was right or rongwrong, within the confines of whoremonger logic, to even try to sing this song. I could have asked the I Ching, but that would have taken up too much time, And with the time before fall, I didn't see there was no time to lose, If things got bad it could always turn into a blues, Like they do back home on the Delta ? grunt and groan." ..... Confused? You will be! Never mind the lyrics though, what about the music? It's joyful, uplifting and exuberant, but also quite offbeat, which is just what we've come to expect by now from an album that is a little bit off the beaten track. This Canterbury Scene album of Jazz-Rock/Fusion is certainly not "Mainstream" and it may not be to everyone's taste, but it is pretty good and definitely worth a listen. One can't help feeling though, that the album could have been better if most of the tracks had included vocals instead of just the final song on the album. It certainly would have made the music more memorable if most of the tracks had included lyrics. That said, if you're heavily into Jazz-Fusion, then this rare long-lost album might be right up your street. |
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A-Z of Canterbury Scene Artists
QUANTUM JUMP Hi-ho silver away! Who is that masked man I hear you cry? Why, it's none other than The Lone Ranger, a Top 5 hit single from Quantum Jump, who are arguably the best-known Canterbury Scene band in the world, purely on the strength of that one unforgettable song with its indecipherable opening, and no, its not a place in Wales. If you've never heard either of Quantum Jump's two jazzy Canterbury Scene albums before, then you're in for quite a surprise. Their albums are a quantum leap away from that legendary masked lawman. 1976: Quantum Jump - Quantum Jump - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mQg6GgmKUzVQUZWfrHuicMw85GGE0grQk 1977: Quantum Jump - Barracuda - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k2Rlyaaed-eDKYffQPYrmopyjUW6uAeis Edited by Psychedelic Paul - October 23 2023 at 02:06 |
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That's good to know. I thought I may have underrated them again, just like many other Canterbury Scene albums I've listened to.
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