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    Posted: February 05 2004 at 18:57

 I've always wanted to get into Cantebury music, but I don't know exactly where to start.

I have the Bruford albums, Softs "Bundles" and one Camel "Dust a

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2004 at 19:26
We'd probably have a tough time narrowing it down to a definitive top 20, let alone 3, but I'll recommend Third by the Soft Machine (I know you've got the one SM disc, but this is really their masterpiece), 'The Polite Force' by Egg, and may
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2004 at 20:37

Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go.

Other essesntials include:

Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club
National Health-Of Queues & Cures
Matching Mole-Self-titled

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2004 at 20:47
That Lol Coxhill disc, which I'm not familiar with, brought to mind 'End of an Ear' by Wyatt, that's a minor masterpiece too, I think. I saw The Muffins a couple years ago, by the way, at The Knitting Factory in NYC, they did just a couple very rare reunio
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2004 at 23:47
With the Hopper/Dean connection, I was wondering if any of you heard Soft Works with Hopper, Dean, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2004 at 01:30

Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

With the Hopper/Dean connection, I was wondering if any of you heard Soft Works with Hopper, Dean, John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth?

I own their album Abracadabra. It is okay, it seems that Allan was uncomfortable with th

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2004 at 11:50
Yeah, He didn't get to stretch out as much as usual. They're touring right now in Europe. If they do a second one it'll be tighter.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:55

Ahhh, Canterbury music is without a doubt some of the best around...

Like Gonghobbit and Alexander wrote, Third by Soft Machine is a start...

From there? Well Alexander listed a few choices...

Personally Caravan are my favourites

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2004 at 23:57

Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

We should open threads for suggestions for each sub-genre.

Now there's a thought...!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2004 at 11:09
The soft way, - Caravans In the Land of Grey and Pink
The way, - Soft Machines Third,
that is my humble opinion. Apart from that I think music filed under
Canterbury can vary from soft
Strange avenues where you lose all sense of direction -And everywhere is Main Street in the winter sun.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 17 2004 at 15:57
Thanks ya'll.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2004 at 16:32
[QUOTE=Alexander]

Third by Soft Machine is definetly the way to go.

Other essesntials include:

Hatfield & The North-The Rotters' Club
National Health-Of Queues & Cures
Matching Mole-Self-titled

"Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2004 at 18:57

[QUOTE=lucas]Henry Cow defined a new subgenre in the progressive music : 'Rock In Opposition' aka RIO. It is not Canterbury as was Caravan at the very debut of their career. It is more based on improvisation and avant-garde. I like very much earlier Car

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2004 at 07:28

It depends of what you are searching...for beginners I advise King Crimson 'In the court of the king crimson' and 'red'...also Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and VDGG 'godbluff'.

Fot the most soft and pop sid

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2004 at 11:03
[QUOTE=philippe]

It depends of what you are searching...for beginners I advise King Crimson 'In the court of the king crimson' and 'red'...also Tangerine Dream 'Phaedra' and VDGG 'godbluff'.

Fot the mos

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2004 at 03:16
It's certainly not a good entry to listen to prog music
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2004 at 04:42

Originally posted by philippe philippe wrote:

It's certainly not a good entry to listen to prog music

For you, yes it is obvious

But for another guy ??

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 23 2004 at 13:14

Originally posted by danbo danbo wrote:

We should open threads for suggestions for each sub-genre.

Indeed.. maybe we could get the progarchivesguys listen to the "notdefinedyet"-genre


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