Soft Machine
The Canterbury school of British progressive-rock was born when Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings, Richard Coughlan, Kevin Ayers formed the Wilde Flowers. Sinclair, Hastings and Coughlan went on to form the Caravan, while Wyatt, Ayers, Hopper and their friend Daevid Allen formed the Soft Machine.
The Canterbury school of British progressive-rock was born when Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, Richard Sinclair, Pye Hastings, Richard Coughlan, Kevin Ayers formed the Wilde Flowers. Sinclair, Hastings and Coughlan went on to form the Caravan, while Wyatt, Ayers, Hopper and their friend Daevid Allen formed the Soft Machine.
Softs
New remastered vinyl release of the classic 1976 album by Soft Machine. Cut at Abbey Road Studios. The album was the band’s second for EMI’s Harvest label and featured a line-up of Karl Jenkins (Piano, Electric Piano, Synthesisers), John Marshall (Drums), Roy Babbington (Bass) and new members John Etheridge (Guitar) and Alan Wakeman (Tenor & Soprano saxophones). An accessible collection that followed the band’s first album for Harvest, ‘Bundles’. ‘Softs’ featured John Etheridge’s considerable gu…
The Soft Machine
"This 45-minute live fragment captures the Soft Machine at the Paradiso Club in Amsterdam circa 1969. The second incarnation of the band included Hugh Hopper (guitar/bass/vocals), Mike Ratledge(keyboards), and Robert Wyatt (drums/vocals). The trio heard here had originally been joined by Kevin Ayers (guitar) on the group's major-label debut Volume One (1968). Not only did that leave the band minus a lead guitarist but a primary contributor to the material as well. The songs are derived from Volu…
Noisette
Noisette is the third in Soft Machine series, recorded January 4th, 1970 at the same concert as "Facelift" on Third, by the short-lived quintet formation of the group: Elton Dean & Lyn Dobson-reeds, Hugh Hopper-bass, Mike Ratledge-keyboards & Robert Wyatt-drums & vocals. Noisette features the rest of the concert, & showcases a band in transition from their earlier psychedelic/ progressive sound towards the jazz rock sound of Third & Fourth. It features the quintet performing versions of material…