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Soft Machine: Grides

Label: Cuneiform Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: (CD): Facelift; Virtually; Out-Bloody-Rageous; Neo-Caliban Grides; Teeth; Slightly All the Time; Eamonn Andrews; Esther

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Floating World Live

Label: MoonJune Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: The Floating World; Bundles; Land of the Bag Snake; Ealing Comedy; The Man Who Waved at Trains; Peff; North Point; Hazard Profile (Part One); J.S.M.; Riff III; Song of Aeolus; Endgame; Penny Hitch (Coda).

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Soft Machine: Middle Earth Masters

Read "Middle Earth Masters" reviewed by Clifford Allen


In recent years, followers of the Soft Machine have had a boon of documents that have shown the band's continual refinement as a jazz-rock juggernaut. Most of the live performances that have surfaced have been the “classic early '70s quartet with bassist Hugh Hopper, organist/electric pianist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean and drummer Robert Wyatt. The ...

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Soft Machine: British Tour ‘75

Read "British Tour ‘75" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


I Soft Machine, che troviamo ben documentati da questo bel concerto tenutosi all’Università di Nottingham l’undici ottobre del 1975, erano all'epoca ormai diventati una band inserita pienamente nel filone inglese del jazz-rock, avendo perso per strada buona parte di quelle deliziose anomalie che avevano caratterizzato la parte iniziale della loro carriera, spesa fra Canterbury e i ...

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Soft Machine: Middle Earth Masters

Read "Middle Earth Masters" reviewed by John Kelman


In following the path of seminal British group Soft Machine, there seems to be little to link its mid-1960s emergence as a psychedelic avant-pop band to its guitar-centric fusion at the end of the 1970s. But every evolutionary step revealed a band evolving from one incarnation to the next in logical increments. Middle Earth Masters, culled ...

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Soft Machine: Grides

Read "Grides" reviewed by John Kelman


Given the ongoing release of archival live recordings by Soft Machine, you have to wonder if we'll ever reach a saturation point, especially with the heavy emphasis on the British jazz/rock group's 1969-71 lineup with the recently deceased saxophonist/pianist Elton Dean, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper and drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt. So many recordings are already ...

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Soft Machine: Grides

Read "Grides" reviewed by Nic Jones


Any notion of a golden age should always be treated with the utmost scepticism, but the more time passes, the clearer it becomes that the decade from 1965 to 1975 witnessed perhaps the last great step in the evolution of jazz and its relationship with other musical forms. Jazz-rock fusion was destined to peter out in ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Soft Machine: Grides

Read "Soft Machine: Grides" reviewed by Clifford Allen


Soft Machine Grides Cuneiform 2006 1970 was a banner year for the Soft Machine. Their profile amongst the European avant-garde jazz and psychedelic rock communities was raised by a headline-grabbing gig at the Proms, the British music establishment's annual celebration of, in the main, classical and symphonic composition and performance. ...

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Soft Machine: BBC in Concert 1971 and BBC in Concert 1972

Read "Soft Machine: BBC in Concert 1971 and BBC in Concert 1972" reviewed by Andrey Henkin


Soft Machine BBC in Concert 1971 Hux 2005 Soft Machine BBC in Concert 1972 Hux 2005 These two archival releases of Soft Machine in varying lineups reveal a seminal band ...

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Fusion: Floating World Live, One Spirit, and Dancing On The Water

Read "Fusion: Floating World Live, One Spirit, and Dancing On The Water" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Three recordings which tell us that fusion is alive and well, taking inspiration from the past while also searching for new perspectives. Soft Machine Floating World Live Moonjune Records 2006 Recorded in 1975, Floating World Live is a jazz/rock blast from the past. Britain's popular Soft Machine ...


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