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Soft Machine: Drop
by Gary Gomes
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 ...
Soft Machine: Drop
by Nic Jones
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 ...
The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set
by John Kelman
While modern recording technology and fast improving online distribution capability are making it easier to appreciate the full extent of today's artists' work, the same cannot be said about relatively short-lived groups from the 1970s. This is especially true of groups that, despite being in some cases remarkably influential, remain cult favorites with a relatively small ...
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.
Soft Machine - Alive in Paris 1970 (DVD)
by AAJ Italy Staff
Soft Machine Alive in Paris 1970 Voiceprint (2008) Valutazione: 5 stelle Da tempo si favoleggiava di questo video dei Soft Machine registrato a Parigi ai primi di marzo del 1970 nella formazione in quintetto che per ora, escludendo recenti album dal vivo semi-ufficiali, aveva dato splendida prova di se' solo nel primo brano del mitico album ...
Soft Machine: Drop
by John Kelman
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 ...
Soft Machine "Drop" (Recorded Live in 1971) - Moonjune Records's New Release
MOONJUNE RECORDS NEW RELEASE: SOFT MACHINE “DROP" MIKE RATLEDGE Lowrey organ, Fender Rhodes electric piano ELTON DEAN saxello, alto sax, Fender Rhodes electric piano HUGH HOPPER bass guitar PHIL HOWARD drums Recorded live during the German tour in the Fall of 1971. Original recordings edited and remastered by Mike King ...
Soft Machine: Alive In Paris 1970
by Nic Jones
Soft MachineAlive In Paris 1970Voice Print2008 This could just as well be titled Very Much Alive In Paris since the DVD captures for posterity a couple of Soft Machine performances first broadcast on French television's POP 2 program on March 2, 1970. It features the short-lived five-piece ...
Soft Machine-y Round-Up: Soft Machine Legacy, Elton Dean & The Wrong Object & Delta Saxophone Quartet
by Martin Longley
Soft Machine Legacy Steam Moonjune 2007 Elton Dean & The Wrong Object The Unbelievable Truth Moonjune 2007 Delta Saxophone Quartet Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening -- The Music of ...
