October 03, 2020

Magenta ‎– Canterbury Moon (1978, LP, England)

Magenta / Canterbury Moonの画像
Tracklist:
A1. Foxtrot - 3:55
A2. Riding High - 4:57
A3. Marion - 4:30
A4. I'll Never Trouble You Again - 5:07
A5. Thornaby Woods/The Hare in the Corn - 4:08
B1. Brother Can You Spare a Dime - 3:03
B2. Gipsy - 4:48
B3. Ever the Guiding Light - 3:10
B4. Canterbury Moon - 5:26
B5. Rocks of Bawn - 4:48

Musicians:
Janet Brown vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, whistle, electric piano
Arthur Brown vocals, guitar, mandolin, harmonica
Mervyn Brown vocals, guitar, whistle, dulcimer
Peter Thompson vocals, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki
Jenny White flute


"Canterbury Moon"'s a very well-performed and varied prog-folk album, with a dense, warm and clean sound and wonderful male/female vocals. There are no drums - the key element are acoustic guitars, both strummed and arpeggiated, but some tracks feature other instruments: harmonica, flute and e-piano (the latter being quite atypical for the genre). The melodies are excellent: pensive and melancholic though always very bright and tuneful. The whole album has a very pleasantly old-fashioned allure, which is quite far from the simply "dusty" sound of many dated post-hippie bands. Those two elements would make me compare Magenta both to Steeleye Span and Caedmon, but "Canterbury Moon" actyally has the taste of late-summer golden afternoons during childhood... Or the one of their souvenir, at least. (wago)

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