Results for "Drop"

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Drop

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Neo Caliban Grides; 02. All White; 03. Slightly All the Time; 04. Drop; 05. M.C.; 06. Out-Bloody-Rageous; 07. As If; 08. Dark Swing; 09. Intropigling; 10. Pigling Bland.

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Soft Machine: Drop

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 4, 2009

Questo bellissimo CD documenta il tour europeo dei Soft Machine dell'autunno 1971. Da pochi mesi il batterista Robert Wyatt aveva lasciato la band, pressato e spinto fuori dai dubbi dei due compagni storici Hopper e Ratledge. Al suo posto, su suggerimento di Elton Dean, era arrivato il giovane batterista australiano Phil Howard, una vera e propria ...

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Soft Machine: Drop

by Gary Gomes
April 24, 2009

Despite significant ambivalence about Soft Machine around the time of this recording, it was the furthest out that the group ever ventured, and its closest approach to free jazz. It also possessed the freest drummer to ever grace a rock group. Australian Phil Howard was, in fact, free by most jazz standards, but by jettisoning the ...

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Soft Machine: Drop

by Nic Jones
January 18, 2009

The departure of Robert Wyatt from the drum stool in Soft Machine and the arrival of Phil Howard could have been a potentially fraught moment in the band's evolution back in the early '70s. Until now the only documentation of Howard's time with the band was on one side of Fifth (Sony/BMG, 1972), which was no ...

Album

Drop

By Soft Machine

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Neo Caliban Grides; All White; Slightly All the Time; Drop; M.C.; Out-Bloody-Rageous; As If; Dark Swing; Intropigling; Pigling Bland.

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Soft Machine: Drop

by John Kelman
December 18, 2008

For Soft Machine fans, Drop may well be the Holy Grail of live recordings from a legendary British group that began in psychedelia, ended in riff-based fusion, and traversed considerable stylistic territory in between. A four-month tenure might be nothing more than a footnote to some, but Phil Howard contributes to one of the group's greatest ...