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Live Adventures
Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Has Riff; Grapehound; Nodder In The Back Room; Song Of Aeolus; Relegation Of Pluto / Transit; Gesolreut; Facelift; Last Day.
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 ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Steam
by Nic Jones
The band name says it all. Three members of this quartet worked at different times in the original Soft Machine whilst the fourth has assumed the mantle once taken by the late and lamented musician, Elton Dean. They've come up with a program of music that pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of acknowledging the legacy ...
Soft Machine Legacy: Steam
by Glenn Astarita
This ensemble's birthright continues via numerous personnel changes over the years as its longstanding members--bassist Hugh Hopper and drummer John Marshall--carry the proverbial torch. With sax great Elton Dean's passing in 2006, Soft Machine Legacy has regrouped and surged onward. Regardless, this effort looms as a milestone of sorts. Multi-woodwind ace Theo Travis' presence ...
Soft Machine Legacy
Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Kite Runner; Ratlift; 12/12; F&I; Fresh Brew; New Day; Fur Edge; Theta Meter; Grape Hound; Strange Comfort.
Soft Machine Legacy: Soft Machine Legacy
by John Kelman
The problem with reunions is that they usually serve a fan base looking for classic repertoire and little in the way of new material and direction. Fortunately, in the 25 years or so since the legendary British jazz/rock group Soft Machine disbanded, two members of the classic lineup--saxophonist/pianist Elton Dean and electric bassist Hugh Hopper--have used ...
Soft Machine Legacy: New Morning--The Paris Concert
by John Kelman
Soft Machine Legacy New Morning: The Paris Concert Inakustuk 2006 Some would argue that Soft Machine didn't technically take its last wheezing gasps until the early 1980s, with the release of the largely inconsistent Land of Cockayne (EMI, 1981). Most, however, would agree that the seminal British jazz/rock group's ...
