MoonJune recommends: Canterburry Tales - documentary about the Canterbury Scene

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Dear Friends in Music
I would like to recommend You this wonderful documentary movie in which Yours truly was featured, and very nicely done by two long time friends, Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder of Zeitgeist Media Productions.
I was very much involved with the so-called Canterbury scene in the past 15 years, in part due to my long time friendship with two late grat heroes of mine Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper, and in recent years I was actively involved with Hatfield & The North (2005-2006), Soft Works (2001-2004) and The Soft Machine Legacy (2004-present). I named my company after the Robert Wyatt's track Moon In June (on the seminal Soft Machine's "Third" album from 1970), and some of the music from that scene is among my all time favorite music. I am very honored to be part of this movie and I hope that his DVD should be part of Your collection.
For more info and to see the movie's trailer: www.progdocs.com

Cheers
Leonardo/MoonJune

In memory of Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Pip Pyle, Alan Gowan, Kevin Ayers, Pierre Moerlen, Sasha van Geest, Ron van Eck, Alberto Bonomi.

ROMANTIC WARRIORS III
CANTERBURY TALES
A film by Adele Schmidt and Jose Zagerra Holder
(DVD, NTSC-All Region, 118 Minutes)

The third film in the series guides you through the amazing history, development of the Canterbury Scene and its influence on contemporary bands. The emergence of the Canterbury Scene of the late 60s and early 70s represents a remarkable period in the history of British progressive rock music and, most notably, the development of Jazz Rock.

The film highlights the most important 60s/70s Canterbury Scene and few contemporary bands: Wilde Flowers, Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong, Uriel, Delivery, Egg, Matching Mole, Hatfield and The North, Gilgamesh, National Health, In Cahoots, Quiet Sun, Supersister, Moving Gelatine Plates, Forgas Band Phenomena, Glass, The Muffins, The Soft Machine Legacy, The Wrong Object, Syd Arthur and Planeta Imaginario.

Among the musicians of the Canterbury Scene (that were active in the 70s), the following have been interviewed for the film: Pye Hastings & Geoffrey Richardson (Caravan), Dirk "Mont" Campbell (Uriel, Egg, National Health), Brian Hopper (Wilde Flowers), David Sinclair (Caravan, Matching Mole, Hatfield and The North), Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole, Quiet Sun), Robert Jan Stips (SuperSister), Didier Malherbe (Gong), Phil Miller (Delivery, Hatfield and The North, National Health, In Cahoots), Roy Babbington (Nucleus, Delivery, Soft Machine, The Soft Machine Legacy), John Etheridge (Soft Machine, The Soft Machine Legacy), Didier Thibault (Moving Gelatine Plates), Patrick Forgas (Forgas Band Phenomena), Benoit Moerlen (Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, Mike Oldfield's Band, Gongzilla), Theo Travis (The Soft Machine Legacy, Steven WIlson), David Newhouse (The Muffins), Richard Sinclair (Caravan, Hatfield & The North, Camel, Caravan of Dreams), and Daevid Allen (Soft Machine, Gong, University of Errors). And among musicians emerged in recent years: Michel Delville (The Wrong Object, Doubt, Machine Mass), Marc Capel, Alfonso Muñoz, Vasco Trilla (all of Planeta Imaginario) and Liam Magill, Joel Magill, Raven Bush and Fred Rother (all of Syd Arthur).

The movie also features "expert guests" Bruce Gallanter (of DownTown Music Gallery), Aymeric Leroy (of Calyx) and Leonardo Pavkovic (of MoonJune Records).

For more info and how to purchase the DVD of this wonderful project, please go to:
www.progdocs.com

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