Egg-Egg (1970)

Egg are one of the most influential avant-garde bands of the Canterbury sound. With three splendid albums released between 1970 and 1974, they are considered a cult band in the annals of rock music. Their style, oriented towards so-called nonsense music, is represented in the emblematic "Symphony No. 2" from their self-titled album, the breathtaking jazz-rock "Long Piece No. 3" from their second album, "The Polite Force", and the ironically galloping "Germ Patrol" and the thrilling "Enneagram" from their third and final album, "The Civil Surface". For many, Egg, composed of Dave Stewart (organ and keyboards), Mont Campbell (bass and vocals), and Clive Book (drums), represent the maturity and sophistication that many less talented, though far more commercially successful, contemporary bands lacked. In all of them are present the elements of classical music driven by organ arrangements and a sober jazz structure, which led them to create three masterpieces of germinal progressive rock.