In the Land of Grey and Pink [Import]

In the Land of Grey and Pink [Import]

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Product Description
Instant 1971 Classic by the British Progressive/Psychedelic/Jazzy Rockers Caravan, who Came Up Through the Artsy, Canterbury (Near Kent, England) Scene of the Late Sixties. Includes the Twenty-Two Minute, Forty-Two Second Epic "Nigel Blows the Horn".

Tracks:

Golf Girl
Winter Wine
Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
In the Land of Grey and Pink
Nine Feet Undergroud: Nigel Blows a Tune/Love's a Friend/Make It 76/Dan
I Don't Know It's Name (Alias the Word) [#][*]
Aristocracy [#][*]
It's Likely to Have a Name Next Week/Winter Wine [#][*][Instrumental]
Group Girl [First Version][#][*]
Dissassociation/100% Proog [New Mix][*]

Album Description

Remastered reissue of the British progressive rock act's 1971 album. Featuring the original 5 tracks and 5 bonus tracks, 'I Don't Know It's Name', 'Aristocracy', It's Likely To Have A Name Next Wee, 'Group Girl' and 'Dissassociation/100% Proof' (new mix). Standard jewel case. 2001 release.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered and Includes the Previously Unreleased Track 'i Don't Know It's Name (Alias the Word), the Original Studio Version of 'golf Girl' with Different Lyrics, Studio Demo of 'winter Wine', a New Mix of 'disassociation/100% Proof' and Apreviously Unreleased Version of 'aristocracy'.

Customer Reviews:

Very good, but................2007-07-20

.....not as consistently good as "If I could do it all over again.....". I cannot add much to the other reviews except to say that the reason I couldn't give it 5 stars is bc. the lengthy version of Nine Feet Underground is not nearly as good as the live version on the CD and DVD release "Live in Nottingham" which, although recorded decades later in a reunion concert, has more exceptional jamming, by both David Sinclair - on electric organ and James Hastings on flute and sax - than on the original. Still one of the top ten best prog rock albums.

The Land of Grey and Pink.......2007-05-08

Maybe it could be because I was born in the wrong time, being only 33 years old, this album being a tad older, or maybe being the best kept secret in England's Canterbury district (town), I don't know. But one thing I got to say since I have heard the title song of this album, you don't get sick of it at all and why didn't these guys get as famous or more so than the Pink Floyd. I am a true fan of the singer/bass player Richard Sinclair, very rich and deep with a haunting sound betraying such great songs on this album. Every song on this album deserves recognition:

1 Golf Girl 4/5
2 Winter Wine 4/5
3 Love To Love You 3/5
4 In The Land of Grey and Pink 5/5
5 Nine Feet Underground 5/5
6 I Don't Know Its Name 5/5
Etc.....etc....etc....the rest are part of the original songs on this album with a different take on them.
Each one of these gems have a familar sound to it like you've heard it before in another time and it's a good feel. It is almost like Floyd or any progressive sounding material during this time but better, you even hear a little of Yes in here and even funny enough Rare Earth covering a Temptation song in Nine Feet Underground, near the end of the song. This group is really tight and it shows in their music indeed, too bad I didn't hear of them until recently in my life. And if you like this album, you'll like their other album 'If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You', funny name by the way.

A wonderful mix of pop and progressive.......2007-02-07

This 1971 album is easily the most cheery and upbeat record that I have in my collection. It is an excellent example of the pop/prog side of the Canterbury scene (which is actually more diverse than most would make it out to be), is both warm and inviting, and boasts some solid musicianship - in short, this is a fantastic recording that brings me a great deal of enjoyment.

The core musicians on this album comprise what I consider to be the definitive Caravan lineup: Richard Sinclair (bass, acoustic guitar, and vocals); Pye Hastings (electric/acoustic guitars; vocals): David Sinclair (Hammond organ; mellotron; backing vocal harmonies); and Richard Coughlan (drums and percussion). Joining the band are Jimmy Hastings (flute, tenor saxophone; and piccolo); and David Grinstead (cannon, bell, and "wind"). All of the guys are good players although I have to say that Richard Sinclair is the best: his bass work with Caravan, Hatfield and the North, and Camel is excellent. Richard also has a great singing voice, as does Pye Hastings and their vocal approach works very well with the material.

I think that of all of the Canterbury bands (and other English progressive bands active at the time), Caravan stuck closer to the "pop song" format. Because of this, you will neither encounter the use of staggeringly complex time signatures, nor odd chords and root movements. Instead, the pieces on In the Land of Grey and Pink feature very pleasant melodies, and are mostly mid-tempo, without any jarring or experimental passages. There is also the classic Canterbury sense of humor, as evidenced by song titles such as Golf Girl and "Hold Grandad by the Nose". Most of the tracks on the album are in the 3-8 minute range, with the single exception of the massive 22'40" Nine Feet Underground suite.

This remastered album features the original (and excellent) album art with loads of informative liner notes. The bonus tracks include several tracks that should have been included on the original record (e.g Aristocracy), whereas the remaining bonus tracks are simply alternate takes/versions.

This is a great album lumped under the Canterbury scene and is very highly recommended to folks that do not mind a less technically-oriented approach to prog rock along with the excellent For Girls who Grow Plump in the Night (1973).

A Classic.......2006-11-22

This album is rightly considered one of the classic albums of the Canterbury progressive rock style which gained considerable popularity in the early 70's. Caravan really hit their stride on this their 3rd album and many consider it to be the band's best. Still with the band's original lineup this album plays to the strengths of the songwriters and musicians. It is a great mix of prog rock, pop, and at times just plain nonsense that works on many levels. The lyrics are very hippie-ish expressing a positive idealism that is rare in today's world. The pop-ish tracks "Golf Girl" "In The Land Of Grey And Pink" and "Love To Love You" are all instantly humable and stick in your brain like good pop should. The proggier stuff "Winter Wine" and the classic album closer "Nine Feet Underground" show a band at the top of their game. "Nine Feet Underground" has become Caravan's "Free Bird" with its 22 minute length and uninhibited jamming it has become an essential part of the Caravan set list to this day. Although the album sounds a bit dated today, it is still a great listen. The remastered version (released in 2001) sounds great and has several bonus tracks.

Wonderfully unforgettable..........2006-09-08

So, why does an album sound so incredibly fresh & alive well over thirty years after its release? Well, if there was an easy answer everybody would be doing it, but sometimes things just work... and Caravan's masterpiece does just that. First time through its bizarre, often childish lyrics may leave you feeling that you've dropped into a whimsical Edward Lear-esque hippy-fest... but careful because it'll get to you, and once it does you'll be hooked. Why? Well in addition to being infused with catchy melodies, perfectly metered lyrics, excellent playing, clever arrangements, and a highly distinctive feeling of pastoral "Englishness", there's something running through it all that elevates it from an interesting, relatively obscure slice of early 70's folk-jazz-rock into a "classic". Don't ask me what but it's different, unforgettable and above all timeless.

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In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan
Manufacturer: Eclectic Discs
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Golf Girl 5:05
Winter Wine 7:46
Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly) 3:06
In The Land Of Grey & Pink 4:51
Nine Feet Underground / Nigel Blows A Tune / Love's A Friend / Make It
I Don't Know Its Name (Alias The Word) (bonus) 6:12
Aristocracy (bonus) 3:42
It's Likely To Have A Name Next Week / Winter Wine (instrumental)
Group Girl (bonus alternate version) 5:04
Dissassociation / 100% Proof (bonus new mix version) 8:35
/ Dance Of The Seven Paper Hankies / Hold Grandad By The Nose / Honest I

Album Description

For many aficionados of the creative rock music that surfaced in the heady days of the late 60's / early 70's, the bands who surfaced from the English provincial city of Canterbury produced some of the most consistently interesting music of that period. Of all the groups to emerge from the so-called "Canterbury Scene" (the existence of which many of its main protagonists deny), none were quite so original and so enduring as Caravan.

In The Land of Grey & Pink was released to an unsuspecting world in 1971, appearing in Europe and Japan on Decca's progressive rock label Deram and in the USA on London Records The album packaging was the most lavish to grace a Caravan release to date, being the inaugural release in Deram's "deluxe" series. It featured a striking Tolkien-esque illustration and opened in a gatefold to reveal a glorious picture silhouette of the band larking around, marching single file in a field. Overall both the music within and the album sleeve created a stunning impression.

A unique fusion of folk, jazz and rock; the album came to be regarded as one of Caravan's finest hours. Taking up a whole side of vinyl and chosen to close the album, the Nine Feet Underground suite provided a worthy successor to For Richard, proving to be one of the most popular tracks on the album and a concert favourite. It is often regarded as the seminal Caravan album and is in MOJO's bible top 500 albums of all time. This new Eclectic definitive version is remastered and comes housed in digipak format.

In the Land of Grey and Pink
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In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan
Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000A2PMRY
Release Date: 2001-02-19

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Better than I Thought
TAKE A CANTERBURY PILGRIMAGE...
Probably Caravan's best work
Caravan fans: check Richard Sinlcair's "Caravan of Dreams"
A classic

In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1989-05-22

Tracks:

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

Album Details

Instant 1971 Classic by the British Progressive/Psychedelic/Jazzy Rockers Caravan, who Came Up Through the Artsy, Canterbury (Near Kent, England) Scene of the Late Sixties. Includes the Twenty-Two Minute, Forty-Two Second Epic "Nigel Blows the Horn".

Customer Reviews:

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

The classic everyone told me it was. I was expecting good but not this good. This is a great prog. album. Only complaint, I would have liked a little more guitar in the instrumental parts, especially on the long song. But with tunes like these, I'll let it pass.

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

If you've never experienced the innocence and eclecticism that was Caravan, you might as well start with this, their finest album. They did a lot of other nice work, before and after (IF I COULD DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, FOR GIRLS WHO GROW PLUMP IN THE NIGHT, parts of WATERLOO LILY...), but this cd shows them at their best.

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

Track five is the one to test whether you will like Caravan -- the extended 'Nine Feet Underground'. New listeners may need to take some time getting used to this folk-tinged, organ-centred rock -- just don't forget that this album was released in April 1971! Caravan never made a better record after this.

Caravan fans: check Richard Sinlcair's "Caravan of Dreams".......2000-08-09

I've already submitted a review of this CD (Caravan's best), which you should find below.

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.......2000-06-27

Idiosyncrasy. Remember that? The raw virtuosity of King Crimson, the literacy of early Genesis, the sheer emotional intensity of Van der Graaf Generator? (Not to mention the pseudo-artistic but fun pyrotechnics of ELP and the sympathetic but occasionally over-the-top ramblings of Yes!)

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.

Tracks:

Golf Girl
Winter Wine
Love To Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
In The Land Of Grey & Pink
Nine Feet Underground
I Don't Know Its Name (Alias The Word)
Aristocracy
It's Like To Have A Name Next Week ("Winter Wine" Instrumental)
Group Girl (First Version Of "Golf Girl" With Different Lyrics)
Dissassociation/100% Proof (New Mix)

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in the pink

In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005EUK6
Release Date: 2007-05-07

Tracks:

Golf Girl
Winter Wine
Love to Love You (And Tonight Pigs Will Fly)
In the Land of Grey and Pink
Nine Feet Undergroud: Nigel Blows a Tune/Love's a Friend/Make It 76/Dan
I Don't Know It's Name (Alias the Word) [#][*]
Aristocracy [#][*]
It's Likely to Have a Name Next Week/Winter Wine [#][*][Instrumental]
Group Girl [First Version][#][*]
Dissassociation/100% Proog [New Mix][*]

Album Description

Japanese digitally remastered reissue of British prog-rock album originally issued on Fontana in 1971 & unavailable domestically. Packaged in a limited edition miniature gatefold LP sleeve.

Album Details

Japanese version featuring a limited LP style slipcase. Digitally remastered.

Customer Reviews:

in the pink.......2001-07-27

another first class re release from caravan. this c.d. is another great bonus compared to the oringinal l.p. with the addition of 5 extra tracks all unreleased. after seeing caravan live recently i went to play the l.p. again only to find it missing from my collection. i was devastated but now i'm over the moon. the full l.p. plus extras worthy of 5 stars.