“I’d just fed the gerbils and was practicing how to play the saw when this head popped around the door and asked politely if I would like to join Caravan”: Inside the weird and wonderful world of The Canterbury Scene

Canterbury Scene band Soft Machine posing for a photograph in the late 60s.

Beloved of connoisseurs of progressive music, the Canterbury Scene was one of the most quietly influential musical movements of the late 60s and early 70s, first laying the groundwork for prog and then taking it into ever jazzier realms. In 2011, key Canterbury musicians looked back at the cult scene they were part of.

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