In the Land of Grey and Pink

Artist: Caravan Label: Umvd Import Category: Music Average customer rating: Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 042282052025 EAN: 0042282052025 ASIN: B000006XFQ Release Date: 1989-05-18

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8. Essential Canterbury Progressive Rock
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Tracks:

1. Golf Girl
2. Winter Wine
3. Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
4. In The Land Of Grey And Pink
5. Nine Feet Underground:Nigel Blows A Tune/Love's A Friend/Make It 76/Dance Of The

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Customer Reviews:

Better than I Thought.......2003-01-02

TAKE A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE..........2001-06-17

David Sinclair played keyboards -- organ, piano and mellotron -- and did some harmony vocals. His Hammond organ dominated the band's sound, but never in a heavy-handed way, and his mellotron work was groundbreaking. He used the instrument to play leads, not just to invoke swelling string section fills, as most practitioners did. His cousin Richard Sinclair played bass and acoustic guitar and sang most of the leads -- he has a pleasant but distinctive, unquestionably British voice, perfectly suited to their material (he later lent his talents to the shatteringly talented ensemble Hatfield and the North). Pye Hastings played guitar (mostly rhythm and some nice understated lead work -- he was, thankfully, never a posing 'guitar god') and did some of the lead vocals, and Richard Coughlin provided the rhythmic foundation with his tasteful drumming. From time to time, Pye's brother Jimmy Hastings appears on flute and sax, adding to the slightly jazzy feel of their arrangements.

There is humor and whimsy in Caravan's music and lyrics -- but never to the point of making them seem silly. This is intelligently crafted music, but music that will bring a smile to your face --- progressive, thought-provoking and hummable at the same time. This band, and this album in particular, is one of the highlights of the 70s British music scene -- and it has aged well. The album is as enjoyable today as when it was released, in 1971.

Probably Caravan's best work.......2000-12-25

Caravan fans: check Richard Sinlcair's "Caravan of Dreams".......2000-08-08

However, if the good people at Amazon allow, this is a short message intended to direct those Caravan fans who already have practically everything to a surprisingly good CD released by Richard Sinclair (the bass player and vocalist of Caravan). The CD is called "Caravan of Dreams", and anyone who loves Caravan should check out this 1992 recording, which R. Sinclair (in the sleeve notes) describes as "an extension to the Canterbury Scene"). It's not a rehash of the old Caravan, but it does recapture a lot of the old Caravan magic.

A classic.......2000-06-26

Well, there were other bands as well. Equally unique, in many ways equally wonderful, but somehow never as successful or enduring. Gentle Giant's one, and Caravan's another.

Caravan's music is difficult to describe to the newcomer. It's unique. Terms like whimsical, magical and quintessentially British come to mind, but none of those really capture the essence. What does, then?

Well, Pooh. And Alice. And that curiously heroic Hobbit, Bilbo. All those hopeless British traits, melancholy and longing and mild self-deprecation, caught up in one. And beautiful music, sculptured by organ (the old-fashioned kind, Hammond), accentuated by synchronous guitar and interspersed with flute, occasional saxophone and determinedly simple, but often wonderful lyrics. And all of this, spiced, obviously, by a pinch of the era: the early 70's.

That, at least, is what Caravan's like on In the Land Of Grey And Pink. And because of this, Grey and Pink is Caravan's best album by far. They'd already produced the extraordinarily titled If I Could It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You (Caravan was never a group to eschew curious titles!) and that's the next one you'll want to get, if you like Grey And Pink. After that, things unfortunately go downhill, though there's enough to enjoy if, by now, you're Caravanserai'd.

This is one of my favourite albums of all time. I keep returning to it, as the years go by. It's a classic.

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