Dave Sinclair
David "Dave" Sinclair (* November 24, 1947 in Herne Bay, Kent, England ) is a British pianist, keyboardist, composer and singer. He is best known as a founding and long-time member of the progressive rock band Caravan, which played an important role in diverse interwoven Canterbury School. He composed for caravan some of their classic pieces, such as " For Richard", "Nine Feet Underground ", "The Dabsong Conshirtoe " and " Proper Job / Back To Front ". His electric piano and organ playing was characteristic of the Caravan sound of the first band years with Pye Hastings singing.
Musical career
Sinclair and his cousin Richard (bass, vocals), Pye Hastings ( guitar, vocals) and Richard Coughlan (drums) play music in the group Wild Flowers, which disbanded in 1967. Founded in early 1968, the four musicians Caravan, and Dave was initially for the first three albums in the band. After that he worked on the first solo album End of an Ear of the former Wild Flowers and Soft Machine drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt with and then joined the newly founded band Matching Mole in, but left it early in 1972 after releasing their first album and a European tour again.
Richard Sinclair meantime, had also left the band in 1972 and Caravan Delivery connected - this went on in the founding of Hatfield and the North, and Dave also joined this band, but she left in 1973 before the recordings for the first Hatfield and the North album to return to Caravan. This time he stopped again for three albums up to and including 1975.
From 1975 he made with various musicians, including guitarist Mark Hewins and bassist Graham Flight ( formerly Wild Flowers), recording for a solo album, which was released in 1993 as Moon over Man at Voiceprint. Some of these musicians established parallel to the band The Polite Force - of her appeared in 1997, the 1976/77 recorded album Canterbury Knights, on the Sinclair also permitting. In 1978 he played with on a tour of the band Camel.
1979-82 and 1990-2002, he was again at the caravan. Recently, Sinclair has again put his solo career, including concerts in Japan and two 2003's solo albums: Full Circle and Into the Sun.