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Pip Pyle - 7 Year Itch (1998)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Jan. 23, 2025
Pip Pyle - 7 Year Itch (1998)

Pip Pyle - 7 Year Itch (1998)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 383 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 138 Mb
Full Scans ~ 120 Mb | 00:56:53 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz Rock / Art Rock / Contemporary Jazz / Canterbury Scene
Voiceprint Records #VP198CD

Intelligent, moving, jazz influenced, progressive rock performed by a stellar cast of musicians including amongst others and in addition to Pip himself is: Dave Stewart, Barbara Gaskin, Phil Miller, Jakko M Jaksyk, Richard Sinclair, John Greaves, Fred Thelonious Baker, Hugh Hopper, Paul Rogers, Didier Malherbe and Elton Dean. Pip Pyle has played drums with amongst others Gong, Hatfield and the North, National Health and In Cahoots and this album shows also what a great composer he is. Quite simply this album contains some of the best examples of the Canterbury/Prog Rock music that has been heard on CD. The opening track 'Seven Sisters', originally written by Pip and performed in a different form by National Health (a version is available on 'Playtime' called 'Pleiades') has to be one of the top five pieces of music of the last few years. It's simply stunning, no other way to describe it. What is amazing here and on other tracks written solely by Pyle is the beauty of his compositions from a melodic and harmonic viewpoint.

Phil Miller - 2 Studio Albums (1987-1988)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Aug. 17, 2022
Phil Miller - 2 Studio Albums (1987-1988)

Phil Miller - 2 Studio Albums (1987-1988)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 649 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 237 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Progressive/Jazz Rock, Canterbury Scene | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Cuneiform Records, Reckless Records

Phil Miller is an English progressive rock/jazz guitarist who is part of the Canterbury scene. In addition to his solo work, he has played in Hatfield and the North, National Health, and Matching Mole. He has released a number of solo albums, some with his group In Cahoots.
After the demise of National Health, he began preparing for a solo career that began with "Cutting Both Ways" (1987) and continues to this day. This was the first album released under his own name, and the first album to feature his band In Cahoots, who are pretty much of a supergroup themselves: Hugh Hopper - bass (Soft Machine), Elton Dean - saxes (Soft Machine), Peter Lemer - keyboards (Gilgamesh, Mike Oldfield, Pierre Moerlen's Gong) & Pip Pyle - drums (Gong, Hatfield, National Health)…
VA - Canterbury Tales: Nuggets From the Psychedelic Underground (2000)

VA - Canterbury Tales: Nuggets From the Psychedelic Underground (2000)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log, scans) - 1.1 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 518 MB
3:12:30 | Alternative Rock, Fusion, Psychedelic Rock, Contemporary Jazz, Prog Rock | Label: Eagle Rock/Eagle

Nuggets from the underground featuring 40 tracks from various artists including, National Health, Jakko, Dave Sinclar, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper & Lisa Klossner, Soft Machine, Gong, Elton Dean, Phil Manzenera and more. The standard double jewelcase is housed in a slipcase. 2000.
VA - Canterbury Tales - Nuggets from the Psychedelic Underground (1966-2000)

VA - Canterbury Tales - Nuggets from the Psychedelic Underground (1966-2000)
Rock | 3cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
Eagle Elite Editions EECD006 | rel: 2000 | 1195Mb

The Canterbury scene (or Canterbury sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Many prominent British avant-garde or fusion musicians began their career in Canterbury bands, such as Hugh Hopper, Steve Hillage, Dave Stewart (the keyboardist), Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, Fred Frith, and Peter Blegvad.
VA - Romantic Warriors III (A Progressive Music Saga): Canterbury Tales (2015)

VA - Romantic Warriors III (A Progressive Music Saga): Canterbury Tales (2015)
DVD9: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR, Auto Letterboxed | Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 224 Kbps
Progressive Rock | Zeitgeist Media | Scans | 02:00:43 | ~ 7.61 Gb

Progdocs third documentary film on the progressive music scene hits the motherload focussing on the very start of it all. The so-called Canterbury Scene started with The Wilde Flowers, a nascent version of Soft Machine and to some extent precursor of Caravan too…
Theatre Belgrade - Seven Great Russian Operas from 1955 - Borodin: Knjaz' Igor / Prince Igor (2019)

National Theatre Belgrade - Seven Great Russian Operas from 1955 - Borodin: Knjaz' Igor / Prince Igor (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 944 Mb | Total time: 60:55+70:39+74:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Profil Medien | # PH19040 | Recorded: 1955

This Edition presents the “Magnificent Seven” and the “encore” in optimum technical quality. In the mid-Fifties of the last century, with the Cold War freezing relations between East and West, the English record label Decca decided to record a series of Russian operas with the Belgrade National Opera. Belgrade in the Yugoslavia of those days under Josip Tito was more open to “the West” than the Warsaw Pact countries gathered under the wing of the Soviet Union. The deal had been struck by former Decca manager and successful promoter of east European folklore in the USA, record executive Gerald Severn. Thanks to his excellent contacts, Decca director Arthur Haddy eventually obtained a visa and travelled to Belgrade to find a suitable recording venue, which turned out to be the cinema in the House of Culture in the city centre.

Kenso Complete Box (2012) [13SHM-CD + DVD]  Music

Posted by v3122 at June 7, 2013
Kenso Complete Box (2012) [13SHM-CD + DVD]

Kenso Complete Box (2012)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & iPod M4A(Tracks) & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
13SHM-CD | King Records, KIZC 168-181 | ~ 4741 or 4768 or 1750 Mb | Scans included | Box Art -> 71 Mb
DVD-5: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | LPCM, 2ch, 1500 Kbps -> 2.53 Gb
Jazz Rock / Fusion / Progressive Rock

This is a Japanese numbered limited edition box set featuring SHM-CDs of the complete Kenso collection. Each album comes in a nice mini-LP style sleeve. In addition to a nicely put together booklet, you get the 11 studio/live albums (don't forget Music For Unknown Musicians was a double) plus a CD with unreleased studio and live tracks, a live DVD…

Brainville - Brainville: 01 Live in NYC '98 (2008)  Music

Posted by antonyart at Aug. 29, 2013
Brainville - Brainville: 01 Live in NYC '98 (2008)

Brainville - Brainville: 01 Live in NYC '98 (2008)
EAC Rip | FLAC (IMG+CUE+LOG) | 427 MB | Complete HQ Scans 600 dpi JPG included | MP3 Lame 320 CBR | 152 MB
Genre: Avantgarde Progressive Rock / Canterbury | RAR 5% Rec. | Label: Voiceprint (VP427CD) | Uploaded, Depositfiles

Brainville is a collaboration between Shimmy Disc founder Kramer and three of the legends of Canterbury rock, Gong founder Daevid Allen, Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper, and Pip Pyle, who drummed for Gong, Hatfield and the North, and National Health. Despite three of the musicians having made their names during the psychedelic and progressive rock eras, the band's music has a contemporary sound. Kramer collaborated with both Allen and Hopper on two albums each and so it was only a matter of time before he collaborated with both at once.

Maxïmo Park - As Long As We Keep Moving (2019)  Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Feb. 28, 2019
Maxïmo Park - As Long As We Keep Moving (2019)

Maxïmo Park - As Long As We Keep Moving (2019)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 255 MB | Cover | 35:30 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 82 MB
Pop, Indie | Label: Cooking Vinyl

Maxïmo Park are set to release new live project 'As Long We Keep Moving' in 2019. The band are a potent live force, and decided to focus on this for a new in-the-studio film, due to be released next year. Out on February 22nd, the film was shot at Vada Studios with the final mixdown handled by Adrian Bushby. Available as an audio-visual document, the accompanying soundtrack will be released digitally and on vinyl.
Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins - Before A Word Is Said (1982) [Reissue 1995]

Gowen, Miller, Sinclair, Tomkins - Before A Word Is Said (1982) [Reissue 1995]
EAC Rip | APE (image+.cue+log) - 277 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 117 MB | Covers (13 MB) included
Genre: Progressive Rock/Canterbury Scene | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Voiceprint (VP130CD)

Recorded in April and May 1981, this album contains some of Alan Gowen's last sessions (he died in 1982). Different in many ways than the core corpus of the Canterbury progressive rock movement (Soft Machine, Caravan, National Health), this quartet album moves deeper into jazz - jazz by rock musicians, yet not blatantly jazz-rock. Jazz has always been part of the Canterbury essence, in Richard Sinclair's melodic basslines and in Phil Miller's blues guitar background. Gowen continues to explore the dreamy mood exposed in Two Rainbows Daily, his collaboration with Hugh Hopper dominated by sad, subtle Moog melodies…