Canterbury Soundwaves

It's the Hendrix episode, looking at the Soft Machine/Jimi Hendrix Experience alliance of 1967-68, including studio jams involving Robert Wyatt playing drums for Hendrix and Hendrix playing bass for Wyatt, memories of Jimi from Ayers, Hopper and Wyatt, and a staggeringly wonderful (although rather hissy) live set from the Soft Machine's support tour of the USA with the Experience. A lot more Wyatt vocals elsewhere too (to make up for the relative lack last time): impersonating John Lennon (successfully), singing anagrams and palindromes for John Greaves' Kew. Rhone. project, adding to an intriguing mix of Annie Whitehead's trombone and electronics, and rabble-rousing with 80's politico-jazzband The Happy End. Also, National Health's only TV appearance, Hatfield's only New York appearance, Steve Miller's only Caravan album, Kevin Ayers back in Hyde Park making more joyful noise (summer 1974 this time) and a very squelchy analogue (Tim) Blakean slice of live Gong from 1973.

For more info and archived earlier episodes, see http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com.

No particular theme this time, but a lot of tracks featuring the wind playing of Pye Hastings' brother Jimmy (so a lot of Caravan, but also some Hatfield and National Health, as well as something entriely unexpected from 2001). Also, Ollie Halsall at his finest, Hugh Hopper and Robert Wyatt (still) experimenting with tape loops in the late 90's, a Malian woman singing Wyatt's "Alifib", obscure hiphop beats based on loops of Canterbury material, and a drunk-but-functioning Whole World playing up a storm in London's Hyde Park, summer 1970.

For more info and archived earlier episodes, see http://canterburysoundwaves.blogspot.com.