Canterbury Scene Music - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Well, didn´t read all from that Canterbury sites, but at least Robert Wyatt seems to think same way as I:

Robert Wyatt

"I couldn't tell you much about that... I don't remember any particular movement happening there. I was at school there, I got married there and I lived there for a while. The school I went to had nothing special, there wasn't any particular interest for art, and I grew bored because I wasn't really good at school... If there ever was a Canterbury scene, it was when the Wilde Flowers became Caravan : they were Canterbury people...".
"I didn't even know it meant me until interviewers started asking me about it. As I say, because I'd bussed in from outside to go to school there I didn't really consider myself a Canterbury person. I think it really means people like Hugh Hopper and Richard Sinclair, who are genuinely based in that area. I met them there and I'm eternally grateful that I met someone like Hugh who provided something I don't think anyone else could have provided. My mind doesn't dwell on it as a place though, if I recall a former fantasy world upon which I draw, it's Harlem in the Forties and not Canterbury in the Fifties...".

I'm not sure if this is considered to be a product of the Canterbury Scene, but it does feature a lot of people who were involved with it. Absolute top-notch jazz rock, in any case.

Mirakaze wrote:

National Health's debut album is the one album I hold more dearly than any other on this earth, it's such an amazing journey. As a musician, this song written by keyboard wizard Alan Gowen gave me huge anxiety for a long time because it felt so far ahead of what I was able to accomplish compositionally, but it did help me to broaden my horizons and refine my own writings:

Great album and great song. Health/Hatfield are some of my favorite recordings. They are not dated and still sound fresh. Timeless. I would be interested to hear your music. Not many can compose music like Alan, Phil, Dave, Pip, Richard, and John did.

^ Excellent music, thanks for sharing!

My favorite tracks to play to on my organ are Egg songs (Newport Hospital, Egg Symphony etc). Love Canterbury scene.

interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings

Zopp, a new UK Canterbury band similar to Egg and National Health will drop their debut record on Bad Elephant Music April 10th. Listen to their latest track from the album>> https://soundcloud.com/zoppofficial

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/zoppmusic

IGNEO1991 wrote:

I'm from Nottingham too! small world isn't it!

Yes, it's nice to meet another prog fan from Nottingham. As it happens, I've been out and about all around Nottingham today, looking for bargain CD's in the charity shops in Carlton, Mapperley, Arnold and Sherwood and I picked up seven CD's in total, although none of them were prog. I can only ever remember buying one prog CD from a charity shop and that was just last week when I picked up Genesis' "Wind & Wuthering" album for just a pound from a charity shop on Goose Gate in the city centre.

Hey, as for Prog Rock Brittania, I'm sure you're dying to watch the full documentary, but it's not on YouTube.

You can watch it here, I watched it a month ago or so.

interests: Moon Safari, Gilgamesh, Egg, ELP, Soft Machine, Gong, Opeth (Everything pre watershed), Brighteye Brison, The Flower Kings

I love the Canterbury sound and have a great collection of albums by now. Funnily enough I seem to gravitate more towards the faux-Canterbury acts these days ie the ones that don’t necessarily stem from the British town but rather reside elsewhere...like Norway, Italy and Belgium.

Fans of this style should do themselves a big favour and check out:
COS - Viva Boma
Needlepoint - Aimless Mary
Supersister - Iskander
Picchio dal Pozzio - s/t
The Winstons - Smith
De Lorians - s/t
Moving Gelatine Plates - s/t
The Muffins - Manna/Mirage
Zyma - Thoughts
Volaré - The Uncertainty Principle
Homunculus Res - Limiti All’Eguaglianza Della Parte Con Il Tutto

And one obscure one from the UK:
Magic Bus - s/t

Edited by Guldbamsen - January 22 2020 at 08:17

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