Caravan (Band)
Caravan is a British band, whose style was classified inter alia as progressive rock, art rock and avant-garde rock.
Most accurately is probably the origin-related indication, Canterbury Sound ', as Caravan 1967/68 was formed from the tightly woven network of those style- music scene in Canterbury, which spawned the group Soft Machine, Matching Mole and Hatfield and the North and in the musicians as Kevin Ayers, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt and a native of Australia Daevid Allen key focal points represented.
History
First mother of the Canterbury scene, the group was founded in 1963, Wilde Flowers, the disbanded in June 1967. You had until 1966 been consulted some founder of Soft Machine (Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Hugh Hopper). Four of the remaining Wild Flowers formed in early 1968 Caravan, namely the guitarist Pye Hastings, bassist Richard Sinclair, whose cousin Dave Sinclair on keyboards and Richard Coughlan on drums. The first line-up of caravan was complete with these four members and in October 1968, the debut LP caravan appeared, it is said, moderate and initially limited only to UK success. Through radio, television and festival appearances of the group, however, succeeded in increasing efforts to draw attention to themselves and to win on the continent trailers.
The published until July 1971 further albums If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You and In the Land of Grey and Pink succeeded the final breakthrough. The first three LPs are still considered those that represent the classic Caravan sound authentic: funny lyrics; catchy, but do not simple issues; Jams, taking half a side of the LP, with jazzy and sometimes psychedelic impact; Music that is geared more to easy listening compared with Soft Machine. Characteristic are David Sinclair's organ playing and Pye Hastings ' vocals.
As of mid-1971, frequent changes of group composition can register; as constants in the line-up proved only Hastings and Coughlan. ( Amusing also understand the basis of the annotated " Canterbury Family Tree ," in 1977 the Soft Machine album Triple Echo came with ). The musical direction of Caravan changed since then in the opinion of many fans and critics, especially after the fourth album Waterloo Lily of May 1972, rather to their disadvantage. Anheizerjobs for Slade and Status Quo in Australia could be a partial shift to conventional song structures seem advisable. Nevertheless, the band's balancing act between ornate instrumental passages and the secular needs of the rock business usually coped quite well. The album Cunning Stunts was able to fight his way in the UK after all, at position 50 in the album charts and reached the U.S. space 124 Blind Dog At St. Dunstan's did it again at number 53 in the UK charts.
1978 Caravan solved the first time officially on to repeatedly revive again in different composition again since 1980 - now mostly as a live band. Here, in the meantime also hit the starting lineup together again.
2006 contact Jim Leverton and Geoffrey Richardson as members of the band by Paul Roland on his album Re-Animator.