Caravan
Canterbury Art Rockers By Jim AllenPuckish godfathers of the Canterbury scene.
Like their Canterbury cousins Soft Machine, Caravan was an offshoot of mid-‘60s cult legends The Wilde Flowers. But while Soft Machine moved into an avant-garde, jazzy mode, Caravan crafted a breezy blend of prog rock and post-Beatles Britpop. The band's driving force has always been singer/songwriter/guitarist Pye Hastings, but Dave Sinclair's distinctive organ work was a key element of Caravan's sound from the start. Like many of the other bands in the Canterbury scene that they helped create, Caravan brought a wry, light-hearted sensibility to their sophisticated compositions; even when they moved into longer, more complex pieces in the mid-‘70s, their sense of humor set their apart from the more "serious" side of progressive rock. (For example, the title of 1975's Cunning Stunts is a rude spoonerism.) Unlike most of their Canterbury contemporaries, Caravan proved to be a long-lived outfit, continuing to record and perform into the 21st century.
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