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The Soft Machine Legacy: Live In Zaandam
by Glenn Astarita
This limited edition live set, recorded in the Netherlands, showcases the Soft Machine Legacy's bridging of previously explored horizons with a new outlook, firmed up by acclaimed British jazz guitarist John Etheridge. With three longstanding members of the early rendition of the Soft Machine carrying the torch, this album features richly lyrical jazz-rock architectures of various ...
Soft Machine: British Tour '75
by John Kelman
Recent years have seen a wealth of archival live releases by British jazz-rock legend Soft Machine. But the lion's share of this material has revolved around the period 1970-72, which saw the classic lineup of keyboardist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean, bassist Hugh Hopper, and drummer Robert Wyatt morph from a freewheeling high-volume exploratory quartet into ...
Soft Machine: Softstage: BBC In Concert 1972
by John Kelman
If a band exemplified the term mercurial, it was Soft Machine. Starting as a kind of post-Dadaist pop band in the late '60s only to end a little more than a decade later as a guitar-driven fusion group, Soft Machine went through so many personnel changes that it's a challenge, even in retrospect, to keep up. ...
Soft Machine & Heavy Friends: BBC in Concert 1971
by John Kelman
Released briefly on Windsong in the mid-'90s before going out of print and commanding large sums on eBay, the BBC recording of Soft Machine's March 11, 1971 Paris Theatre show in London, England was a one-off performance that most fans of the classic lineup--keyboardist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean, bassist Hugh Hopper, and drummer Robert Wyatt--could ...
Soft Machine: Breda Reactor
by John Kelman
Breda Reactor finds British jazz-rock outfit Soft Machine in one of its many transitional stages. Between the septet that toured in late '69 and the emergence of the “classic" lineup--keyboardist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean, bassist Hugh Hopper, and drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt--this incarnation was augmented by saxophonist/flautist Lyn Dobson. The quintet may have only lasted three ...
Somewhere In Soho
By Soft Machine
Label: Voiceprint Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc One: Slightly All the Time; Out-Bloody-Rageous; Eamonn Andrews; Mousetrap; Noisette; Backwards; Noisette (reprise); Hibou Anemone & Bear
Disc Two: Facelift; Moon in June; Esther's Nose Job; Pigling Bland; Cymbalism; Esther's Nose Job (reprise)
Facelift
By Soft Machine
Label: Voiceprint Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Disc One: Slightly All the Time; Out-Bloody-Rageous; Moon in June; Moustrap; Noisette; Backwards; Mousetrap - reprise; Hibou, Anemone & Bear
Disc Two: Facelift; Eamonn Andrews; Esther's Nose Job; Pigling Bland; I Should've Known; Esther's Nose Job - reprise
Live 1970
By Soft Machine
Label: Blueprint
Released: 2004
Track listing: Facelift (excerpt); Moon in June (excerpt); Out-Bloody-Rageous; Facelift; Pig; Orange Skin Food; A Door Opens and Closes; 10.30 Returns to the Bedroom
Live at the Paradiso 1969
By Soft Machine
Label: Voiceprint Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Hulloder; Dada Was Here; Thank You Pierre Lunaire; Have You Ever Been Green?; Pataphysical Introduction Part II; As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still; Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging; Hibou, Anemone and Bear; Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging (reprise); Pig; Orange Skin Food; A Door Opens and Closes; 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
