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File under: Progressive
Caravan
The Decca/Deram Years (An Anthology) 1970-1975 (9CD)
2025 stock Nine CD set. This impressive release collates their Decca/Deram years complete with bonus tracks and rare live recordings in a striking box released to coincide with Decca's 90th Anniversary. The English city of Canterbury is home to two highly respected universities, one of the oldest public schools in Britain and, thanks to it's cathedral and being the seat of the Church of England, is at the very heart of English history. It was therefore something of a surprise when a group of musicians associated with progressive and avant-garde music came to define the sound of the city in the late 1960s. Caravan were formed in Canterbury 1968 by Pye Hastings (guitar/ vocals), Dave Sinclair (keyboards), Richard Sinclair (bass/vocals) and Richard Coughlan (drums). Following the release of an impressive self-titled debut on Verve, in 1970 the band signed to Decca's Deram label where they would record some of the most progressive and elegant music across the decade. Albums such as In The Land Of Grey And Pink, If I Could Do It All Over Again and For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night cemented Caravan's reputation as kings of the Canterbury Sound.
Details
File under: Progressive
Cat. number: 772 281-2, 00602577228124
Year: 2019
Notes:
A 9 CD box set featuring Caravan's magical Decca/Deram label output.
The set collects the remastered 2001 reissues of the band’s six classic Decca/Deram albums (including bonus material), as well as Live At The Fairfield Halls, 1974 and The Show Of Our Lives: Live At The BBC 1970-1975.
8 digisleeves with original album artwork are packaged in a rigid slipcase with an accompanying 52 page booklet detailing the history of the definitive ‘Canterbury Sound’ band.
Track titles as printed on individual Digisleeves. Track 8-8 is printed as "Feelin' Reelin' Squealin'" and track 8-9 printed as "A Huntin' We Shall Go" on back of slipcase.
CD 3 cat# "00602577230646" printed in its individual Digisleeve inside is probably a misprint as it is identical to the cat# of CD 2. Acc. to the analogue # shown in its matrix/runout it probably should be "00602577230660".
For CD 3 both on back of the slipcase as well as in its Digisleeves 10 tracks are listed (track 9: "Looking Left, Looking Right" and track 10: "Pye's Loop") while there are actually only 9 tracks on the disc.
Track durations are not printed on the release.
![Live '74 [At the Cliffs of River Rhine]](https://cdn.soundohm.com/data/products/037/agitation-free-live-74-at-the-cliffs-of.jpg.250.jpg)
