Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s –  Wednesday August 15th.  Dan’s pick of the week: Spirogyra (St. Radigunds), Trees (The Garden of Jane Delawney), Comus (First Utterance), Mellow Candle (Swaddling Songs) & Jan Dukes De Grey (Mice and Rats in the Loft).

Deze muzikanten uit Canterbury ontwikkelden een van de betere voorbeelden van prog-folk of folk-prog. De oorspronkelijke bezetting bestond uit Martin Cockerham als zanger en gitarist, de mooie en bij progheads welbekende Barbara Gaskin op zang, Steve Borrill op bas en Julian Cusack op viool.

Prog Archives review: “Spirogyra’s first album is the closest thing that comes to Comus’s First Utterances. It actually pre-dates it by a few weeks! Please note that Dave Mattacks will drum on al three albums but will never be a member!

Psychedelic, heavy, prog and more innovating sounds spanning the late 60s and the early 70s –  Wednesday August 15th.  Dan’s pick of the week: Moondog (Moondog), The Residents (Meet The Residents), Frank Zappa (Hot Rats), John Cale (Paris 1919), The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground & Nico) & Henry Cow (In Praise of Learning).

Moondog was de artiestennaam van Louis T. Hardin, een Amerikaans componist, musicus en dichter. Behalve nieuwe muziek vond hij ook nieuwe instrumenten uit, hoewel hij blind was.

Sputnik Music review: “For 30 years, many simply considered Louis Thomas Hardin, Jr. to be one of the more eccentric vagrants that line Manhattan’s walkways. Few New Yorkers knew that when they flipped their spare change to the spear-toting, horn-capped, wispy-bearded “Viking of Sixth Avenue” they were giving to a man who had transcended insurmountable conditions, acquired blindness and homelessness, to become one of the 20th century’s most gifted and under-recognized musicians.