Canterbury Tales: Nuggets from the Psychedelic Underground (2 tracks), by Various Artists

Canterbury Tales: Nuggets from the Psychedelic Underground (2 tracks)

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	1.	Potted History (Hugh Hopper & Richard Sinclair) 03:02
	2.	If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (Caravan) 04:09

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Somehow (or other?) I made it onto this Canterbury sampler from Eagle Records, curated by Brian Hopper.
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I'm also listed under a couple of National Health tracks, for contractual reasons, but I don't actually perform on them.

"A journey into the backstreets of Canterbury as selected by Brian Hopper. Unsurprisingly the overriding flavour is jazz, in all it's many guises, vocal, avant garde, smooth, comical, fusion, intermingled with a mix of pop rock (not of chart variety) pop funk, avant prog, space rock. Now this may all sound very interesting but personally I found it a toil to get through and one has to stubborn (which I am) and determined in sticking with it to extract the marrow from the bone.

For me the reference to Nuggets from the Psychedelic Underground is inapplicable, as while the music spans a period from 1966 to 2000, the majority comes from the eighties/nineties and even when it doesn't, I'm hard pressed to find anything psychedelic about it.

That said, the main Canterbury players, and some lesser known contributors to the sound, plus a couple of, raise eyebrows everybody, names are represented, not in their more familiar day job roles more in the capacity here as solo artists, joint venturists or collaborators. Brian Hopper, to quote states that he has attempted to programme the tracks to give a musically interesting and a times challenging continuity which he hopes will provide surprises as well as delights from track to track for those unfamiliar with the music. Well that's certainly a fair description, but I do ask myself was this by personal choice, as it appears he had a limited palette from which to make his picks e.g. The National Health tracks are all lifted from their least successful album, 3 tracks from Pip Pyles Equipe Out, there is a dearth of tracks from what one would call the more known Canterbury bands, the Caravan track for example sounds as if it had been recorded from the inside of a toilet at a gig on a cheap seventies cassette player, and the Gong and Magick Brothers tracks are lifted from live albums, the remaining tracks are from let's say the artists lesser known albums or previously unreleased material.

So what have we been given here, a release that is offbeat, unorthodox and diverse, from an association of left field artists encompassing sounds from Level 42, to Camel, to Henry Cow to the pop of Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin (here it's Pip Pyles Strawberry Fields) and the ever omnipresent sound of jazz. It's of dubious palatability, will not be for most, but for those fans of the Canterbury sound who wish to explore the unconventionality of its inner recesses, I'm sure there is something to unearth. For me it is the Magick Brothers (Daevid Allan) Wise Man in Your Heart, for others it may be hearing Jimi Hendrix playing bass with Robert Wyatt (don't get your hopes up) but really this is one for the domain of those adventurous souls, aka musical masochists, who define their tastes as broad ranging."
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released July 21, 2001

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The leading voice of the Canterbury Scene. Beginning with the Wilde Flowers, on to Caravan, Hatfield & the North, Camel and all his recent group efforts, Richard Sinclair's singing and bass playing have been a constant source of delight for lovers of Canterbury music. A deep, low voice, a talent for memorable melodies few can match, plus an imaginative and fluid technique on the bass and guitar. ... more

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