Canterbury scene
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The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many prominent British avant-garde or fusion musicians began their career in Canterbury bands, such as Hugh Hopper, Steve Hillage, Dave Stewart, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, Fred Frith, and Peter Blegvad. Over the years, with band membership changes and new bands evolving, the term has been used to describe a musical style or subgenre, rather than a regional group of musicians.
Components
- Bands
Five bands were central to the Canterbury scene:
Other bands:
- Camel
- Caravan of Dreams
- Comus
- Delivery
- Egg
- Gilgamesh
- Henry Cow
- In Cahoots
- Isotope
- Khan
- Matching Mole
- Mashu
- Mirage
- The Polite Force
- Quiet Sun
- Soft Heap
- Short Wave
- The Wilde Flowers
- Record labels
- Burning Shed
- Cuneiform Records
- Recommended Records
- Virgin Records
- Columbia Records (Soft Machine)
- Harvest Records (an imprint of EMI)
- Vertigo Records
- Voiceprint Records
- Musicians
- Daevid Allen (Soft Machine, Gong, Brainville)
- Kevin Ayers (Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Gong)
- Mont Campbell (Uriel, Egg, Arzachel, National Health)
- Lindsay Cooper (Henry Cow, Feminist Improvising Group, Mike Oldfield, National Health, Mike Westbrook Orchestra, News from Babel)
- Lol Coxhill (Delivery, Kevin Ayers & The Whole World)
- Chris Cutler (Ottawa Music Company, Henry Cow, Art Bears, News from Babel, Peter Blegvad Trio)
- Elton Dean (Keith Tippett Sextet, Soft Machine, Just Us, Centipede, Soft Heap/Soft Head, In Cahoots, Pip Pyle's Equip'Out)
- Fred Frith (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
- Alan Gowen (Gilgamesh, National Health, Soft Heap/Soft Head)
- John Greaves (Henry Cow, National Health, Soft Heap, Peter Blegvad Trio)
- Jimmy Hastings (Caravan, Caravan of Dreams, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Soft Machine)
- Pye Hastings (Wilde Flowers, Caravan)
- Mark Hewins (Sinclair and the South, The Polite Force, Soft Heap, Gong, Mashu, Caravan of Dreams)
- Steve Hillage (Uriel, Arzachel, Khan, Kevin Ayers, Gong, System 7)
- Tim Hodgkinson (Henry Cow)
- Allan Holdsworth (Soft Machine, Gong, Bruford, UK)
- Hugh Hopper (Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Isotope, Soft Heap/Soft Head, In Cahoots, Pip Pyle's Equip'Out)
- Karl Jenkins (Nucleus, Soft Machine, Adiemus)
- Geoff Leigh (Henry Cow, The Black Sheep)
- Phil Miller (Delivery, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, National Health, In Cahoots, Richard Sinclair Band, Hugh Hopper Band)
- Pierre Moerlen (Gong, Mike Oldfield Band, Gongzilla)
- François Ovide (John Greaves Group)
- Pip Pyle (Delivery, Gong, Hatfield and the North, National Health, Soft Heap, In Cahoots, Pip Pyle's Equip'Out, John Greaves Band, Hugh Hopper Band)
- Mike Ratledge (Soft Machine, Adiemus)
- Geoff Richardson (Spirogyra, Caravan)
- David Sinclair (Wilde Flowers, Caravan, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, The Polite Force, Camel)
- Richard Sinclair (Wilde Flowers, Caravan, Delivery, Hatfield and the North, Sinclair and the South, Camel, In Cahoots, Caravan of Dreams)
- Gilli Smyth (Gong)
- Dave Stewart (Uriel, Egg, Arzachel, Ottawa Music Company, Khan, Hatfield and the North, Gong, National Health, Bruford, Rapid Eye Movement)
- Andy Ward (Camel, Marillion, Caravan of Dreams, Mirage)
- Robert Wyatt (Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Matching Mole)
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