Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales

Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales
Directed by	Adele Schmidt José Zegarra Holder
Produced by	Adele Schmidt José Zegarra Holder Jonathan Jarret Jurriaan Hage
Written by	Adele Schmidt José Zegarra Holder
Starring	Pye Hastings Geoffrey Richardson Dirk Mont Campbell Brian Hopper Dave Sinclair Bill MacCormick Robert Jan Stips Didier Malherbe Phil Miller Roy Babbington John Etheridge Didier Thibault Patrick Forgas Benoît Moerlen Theo Travis David Newhouse Richard Sinclair Daevid Allen Michel Delville Marc Capel Alfonzo Munloz Vasco Trilla Liam Magill Joel Magill Raven Bush Fred Rother Bruce Gallenter Aymeric Leroy Leonardo Pavkovic
Music by	Caravan Delivery Egg Forgas Band Phenomena Gilgamesh Glass Gong Hatfield and the North In Cahoots Matching Mole Moving Gelatine Plates National Health Nucleus Planeta Imaginario Quiet Sun Soft Machine Soft Machine Legacy Supersister Syd Arthur The Muffins The Wilde Flowers The Wrong Object
Cinematography	Adele Schmidt José Zegarra Holder
Edited by	Adele Schmidt
Distributed by	Zeitgeist Media
Release date	April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17)
Running time	118 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English French Spanish

Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales (2015) is the third in a series of feature-length documentaries about Progressive rock written and directed by Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder. This one focuses on the music of the Canterbury scene.

The DVD was completed with the aid of an Indiegogo campaign in 2014.

Adele Schmidt and José Zegarra Holder are co-founders of Zeitgeist Media LLC, a video production company based in Washington, D.C. Schmidt has produced several films, including a documentary on Albert Schweitzer, Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa (2006), which won the 2008 Gabriel Award and the 2009 Telly Award. Previous Progressive rock documentary films in the series include Romantic Warriors: A Progressive Music Saga (2010) and Romantic Warriors II: A Progressive Music Saga About Rock in Opposition (2012).

Romantic Warriors III: Canterbury Tales begins with The Wilde Flowers, the archetypal Canterbury scene band. Rare period performance footage, still photos, and recordings are interspersed with contemporary interviews with almost all of the surviving musicians from this era. From The Wilde Flowers the story moves to Soft Machine which initially comprised four ex-members of The Wilde Flowers, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen. When Australian-born Allen was refused re-entry into the United Kingdom in 1967 after a gig in Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, Soft Machine elected to continue as a 3-piece band and, at the suggestion of Jimi Hendrix, added a distortion pedal to the organ to make up for the missing guitar. Meanwhile in Paris, Allen formed Gong, with a spacier sound involving early synthesizers and echo units. Daevid was interviewed for this film just weeks before his death from cancer. Although obviously unwell, his sense of humor and playfulness remained forefront. Soft Machine subsequently became a quartet again by adding bassist Hugh Hopper (also ex-The Wilde Flowers). Next Dave Sinclair introduces the band Caravan, consisting of the remaining members of The Wilde Flowers. Bands influenced by the original Canterbury scene began popping up around 1970 all over the world, including Moving Gelatine Plates (France) and Supersister (Netherlands). Their history is described by their main composers, with performance footage and images of their album covers. Next to be featured is Forgas Band Phenomena which came a little later but definitely is Canterbury-influenced.

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