Canterbury binge 2013-2014

[Steve F.]

I don't think I have any other releases from that label than Before a Word and the Greaves/Blegvad/Herman Kew. Rhone (one of my fave 25-or-so albums of all time); what else was there, do you know?

Discogs is your friend:

http://www.discogs.com/label/33373-Europa-Records

[Scrotum Scissor]

Thank you! Ha, as it turns out I've got several of those on CD - Greaves, Alan/Hugh, Lounge Lizards etc.

[calyx]

Europa also paid for the recording of the Hopper-Sinclair album, recorded late 1983 in Burgundy, but it remained unfinished - Hopper and Sinclair were hoping to get Robert Wyatt to sing on one track ("Was A Friend"), but for some reason that didn't happen. By the time Europa folded in 1984 the album was still unfinished. In 1996, it was released in Voiceprint in its unfinished state, without "Was A Friend". Eventually Hopper managed to get Wyatt to sing over the 1983 backing track and the results came out on a HH compilation, "Parabolic Versions". In the meantime, Hopper and Wyatt had both put out versions of the song, Hopper as "C'est grâce" on "Hooligan Romantics", with vocals and lyrics by John Atkinson, and Wyatt on "Schleep".

[Kcrimso]

Just listening Delta Flora by Hughscore. God damn how awesome the version of Was A Friend is!

[Phlakaton]

Just listening Delta Flora by Hughscore. God damn how awesome the version of Was A Friend is!

I think I played that cd for like 4 months straight back in 1999... road trips - work - home - anytime anywhere. Soooo... good. Glad you dig it - Elaine is great on that one too!

[arturs]

I think I played that cd for like 4 months straight back in 1999... road trips - work - home - anytime anywhere. Soooo... good. Glad you dig it - Elaine is great on that one too!

What a perfect album! Contemporary but also classic when released. Still sounds fresh today.

A particular combination of people at a particular moment in time, where everything came together and resulted in something far far greater than the sum of the (very talented) parts.

[NogbadTheBad]

Whats with the time machine, don't we have a perfectly good current Canterbury thread?

Delta Flora is superb.

[Kcrimso]

How about those other Hughscore albums? Should I get those also?

[Scrotum Scissor]

How about those other Hughscore albums? Should I get those also?

Get Delta Flora sooner than soon.

Then get Caveman Shoestore's Supersale from 2005; sans Hopper, but tremendously great all the same. Avant-poppy art-rock with a discreet jazzy influx; awesome songs and playing, excellent production, some pretty neat lyrics. "Indie" as could have been in some utopian universe.

[Kcrimso]

Get Delta Flora sooner than soon.

Then get Caveman Shoestore's Supersale from 2005; sans Hopper, but tremendously great all the same. Avant-poppy art-rock with a discreet jazzy influx; awesome songs and playing, excellent production, some pretty neat lyrics. "Indie" as could have been in some utopian universe.

Ok thanks. I have to get acquainted with Caveman Shoestore.

Delta Flora I already have.

[vis4victor]

bump its about time ,for annual one of these