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Soft Machine: Softstage: BBC In Concert 1972

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by John Kelman
August 30, 2005

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. ...

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Soft Machine & Heavy Friends: BBC in Concert 1971

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by John Kelman
July 23, 2005

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 ...

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Soft Machine: Breda Reactor

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by John Kelman
April 9, 2005

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 ...

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Six + Seven

By Soft Machine

Label: Comma (Japan)
Released: 2004

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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