Genre: Progressive rock
Places I remember: About 20 years ago, a colleague at Cambridge High School gave me his copy.
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Gear costume: Golf Girl
Active compensatory factors: The space and light in these songs is unique to time and place - the early seventies Canterbury prog scene (kind of debunked as a 'scene' in Mike Barnes' A New Day Yesterday but a handy way of positioning bands like Caravan).
Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: In The Land Of Grey And Pink
Gear costume: Golf Girl
Active compensatory factors: The space and light in these songs is unique to time and place - the early seventies Canterbury prog scene (kind of debunked as a 'scene' in Mike Barnes' A New Day Yesterday but a handy way of positioning bands like Caravan).
First track Golf Girl sets out the band's 1971 wares brilliantly as a whimsical story and sounds float and curl around a gentle beat. The rest of the album builds on that start and if these medieval folk/jazzy /rock sounds don't do it for you you don't like prog.
Me? I really love this stuff. Caravan never really sounded like this again as this was their last album with this particular lineup, so it is an ideal snapshot.
Where do they all belong? A cornerstone of my prog collection.
Where do they all belong? A cornerstone of my prog collection.
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