A BRIEF LOOK INTO THE CD SERVICES DEPARTMENT OF CANTERBURY MUSIC
The CDServices Canterbury Music department, by our standards, is much smaller than many of the others - but no less important, because here you will find a form of music that is steeped in traditional English culture.
With only circa 700 'Canterbury' titles in out main home database, you should be able to obtain most of what you need from the CDS online store, which is populated with a selection of material drawing from over 25 years of the traditional 'Canterbury' scene and beyond.
You'll find a family of groups with an initial musical connection that sprang up in the South-East of England back in the late 1960's - bands such as Soft Machine and Caravan, Gong and Matching Mole, plus all associated members' solo releases and side-projects that fall into the 'Canterbury' category. Soft Machine were the early pioneers of 'Jazz-Rock' in the UK and they lead on to bands such as Henry Cow, Pierre Moerlin's Gong and National Health.
Like most of the other CD Services 'Specialist' departments, some of the titles in the Canterbury Music category have a certain element of "crossover" with other categories in the store, and here there are crossovers with the Progressive / Symphonic-Rock, Jazz-Rock / Fusion, Euro / Kraut-Rock, Psychedelic / Space-Rock and Oldies categories.
