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Soft Machine Legacy: Burden of Proof
by Dave Wayne
Over the course of three albums released between 1968 and 1970, the British band Soft Machine transformed from one of the trippiest and mind-bendingly inventive rock bands of the psychedelic era into a raging musical torrent of free jazz, thunderous prog rock, and high- concept minimalist-inspired avant-garde stylings. With the dizzying changes in musical direction came ...
Soft Machine Legacy Releases New Studio Album "Burden Of Proof"
Soft Machine Legacy makes their most powerful statement to date, delivering an album of epic proportions and their first studio output since 2007's Steam. Infectious grooves, undeniably hip vibes and sizzling performances dominate the outing, as the veteran progressive music masters continue to break new ground and offer listeners yet more previously-unseen facets of their dynamic ...
MoonJune Records: A Decade of Progressive Rock Documentation
by Mark Redlefsen
On a moon of this past June, appropriately enough, Leonardo Pavkovic, owner of the progressive jazz label MoonJune Records, gave All About Jazz an interview at the label's office in Union Square, New York City. The name MoonJune Records, which Pavkovic started back in 2001, is taken from the title of a song, “Moon In June," ...
Mama Africa
by Chris M. Slawecki
If you wanted to travel to--oh, let's just say--Tanzania and then from Tanzania to India, then to Puerto Rico, to England, then Spain, to Peru, then to South Africa, to personally experience their musical varieties both garden and exotic, you could do it by cashing in, with rounding, about 28,690 frequent flier miles. Or ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Chris M. Slawecki
Many have found elements of jazz in the music of European progressive rock artists such as Gong, Can, King Crimson and even, to a certain improvisational extent, Yes. Soft Machine Legacy continues this...umm, legacy with an amoeba-like lineup (mostly) from alumni of the original progressive instrumental group Soft Machine: guitarist John Etheridge, bassist Roy Babbington and ...
Soft Machine: Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
by John Kelman
Despite the controversy that plagued the ever-shifting musical persona of Soft Machine during its 15-year run, the benefits of time and hindsight have largely proven the value of every incarnation--albeit best assessed independently, rather than as part of a single continuum. 1978's Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris was the last of a three-record run on ...
NDR Jazz Workshop: Hamburg, Germany May 17, 1973
Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: CD: 01. Fanfare; 02. All White; 03. Link1/Link2; 04. 37 1/2; 05. Link 3;
06. Riff; 07. Down the Road; 08. Link 3a; 09. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon
Album; 10. Chloe and the Pirates; 11. Gesolreut; 12. E.P.V.; 13. Link 4;
14. Stumble; 15. One Across; 16. Riff II
DVD: 01. Fanfare; 02. All White; 03. Link1; 04. The Soft Weed Factor;
05. Link2; 06. 37 1/2; 07. Link 3; 08. Riff; 09. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon
Album; 10. Chloe and the Pirates; 11. Gesolreut; 12. E.P.V.; 13. Link 4;
14. Stumble; 15. One Across; 16. Riff II; 17. 1983 (bonus solo audio);
18. Encore Improvisation/Stumble Reprise (bonus solo audio)
Soft Machine: NDR Jazz Workshop: Hamburg, Germany May 17, 1973
by AAJ Italy Staff
Amburgo è una città speciale per i Soft Machine. Nel 1966, proprio nella città tedesca, si tenne il primo concerto della band inglese che in quel periodo era un quartetto guidato da Daevid Allen. Nel 1973 i Soft Machine ritornarono nella città alla foce del fiume Elba poche settimane prima di registrare l'album Seven e il ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Nic Jones
With Hugh Hopper's death in 2009, Soft Machine Legacy lost its last link with the classic Soft Machine lineups that recorded its most potent music. What is here, then, is a band which pledges allegiance to the relatively straightforward fusion period of the band's history. Once that's clarified, however, it's still a fact ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Live Adventures
by Mark Redlefsen
The unique jazz-rock of Soft Machine Legacy moves into a new decade with Live Adventures (Moonjune, 2010), along with yet another new lineup, recorded live shortly after the 2009 passing of bassist Hugh Hopper. No matter how much change in personnel occurs, a very identifiable and distinct sound is maintained all around. The balance in this ...
