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…
Høvikodden 1971
This well recorded and carefully mastered set captures the most famous version of the band (the ‘classic quartet') on their final European tour on two consecutive nights on February 27 and 28, 1971. While the two sets from the second night (February 28, 1971) have been released before, this is the first time that the entire two-night stand has been released. So half of this is previously completely unreleased.
This is a excellent, stereo recording of the band performing in a relatively small hal…
Third
*180 gram audiophile vinyl. Gatefold sleeve* The Soft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited the Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. It's a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition -- two by Mike Ratledge and one each by Hopper and Wyatt with substantial help from a number of backup musicians, including Canterbury mainstays Elton Dean and Jimmy Hastings The Ratle…
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…