Canterbury Soundwaves

Strange encounters with punk, funk, new wave and disco, as typified by Daevid Allen's late 70's New York Gong project. Also, Soft Machine experiencing technical difficulties (but ultimately triumphing) at the 1970 BBC Proms, Hatfield Mark II (with Dave Sinclair on keyboards, and Robert Wyatt on guest
vocals), a freaky Gong jam from '72 with mystery trumpet player, some Canterbury sounds from early 70's Holland, thirty-seven seconds of unparalleled brilliance from Henry Cow (twice), the last vocalist you'd ever expect to hear on Canterbury Soundwaves and the winning entry in our recent haiku competition...

For more info and archived earlier episodes, see http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com.

The entire set from an embryonic Hatfield and the North lineup live at the Tower of London in summer '72, a beautiful Hugh Hopper/Richard Sinclair collaboration, the largely undocumented Hastings-Coughlan-Richardson-Austins-Evans Caravan lineup live in France in '72, an extraordinary (and quite long) tape experiment put together by Daevid Allen in 1966, Kevin Ayers with The Wizards of Twiddly, Lindsay Cooper playing bassoon and electronics at a festival of Women's Improvised Music in Zürich, '86 and the latest on the Canterbury Soundwaves haiku competition!

For more info and archived earlier episodes, see http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com.