Jet Propelled Photographs
7/13/2005, AMG
Jet-Propelled Photographs [Charly] is the latest-available CD version of a title which has been repackaged and retitled several times over the last 30 years. Recorded in...
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Live At The Proms 1970
7/13/2005, AMG
Initially recorded for the BBC in August 1970, this is a good document of the group in concert shortly after the release of Third, stripped down to the quartet of Wyatt,...
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Soft Machine, Vol 2
1/1/1970, LAUNCH, Jim Derogatis
Ayers is gone, but his replacement is the great Hugh Hopper, and this album is almost as good as the first. It stands as a musical vision of Dadaist writer Alfred Jarry's...
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Soft Machine, Vol 2
7/13/2005, AMG
Bootleg DVD releases on the Anonymous Film Archive label often spell trouble as far as visual and audio standards, but refreshingly this compilation of rare Soft...
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Softs
7/13/2005, AMG
At this point in the band's history, the Soft Machine was a little bit like the original axe that George Washington used to cut down the cherry tree -- original except that...
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The Peel Sessions
7/13/2005, AMG
On their good days, the Soft Machine could slide effortlessly between jazz, rock, and classical influences, and show a lot of other bands how it's done. Unlike a lot of...
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Third
1/1/1970, LAUNCH, Jim Derogatis
The self-indulgence is starting to set in on this sprawling and more conventional double album of jazzy rock. The notable standout: Wyatt's sound collage "Moon In June,"...
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Third
7/13/2005, AMG
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...
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Volume Two
7/13/2005, AMG
The first Soft Machine LP usually got the attention, with its movable parts sleeve, as well as the presence of ultra-talented songwriter Kevin Ayers. But musically, Volume...
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Soft Machine I & II
7/13/2005, AMG
A combination of their first two studio albums onto one CD. Their first (originally titled The Soft Machine, from 1968), recorded with the trio of Wyatt, Ratledge, and...
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Soft Machine
1/1/1968, LAUNCH, Jim Derogatis
Produced by Chas Chandler of the Animals, the Soft Machine's debut attempts the absurdly ambitious feat of crossing the Beatles' psychedelic rock and Ornette Coleman's...
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Soft Machine
7/13/2005, AMG
A wild, freewheeling, and ultimately successful attempt to merge psychedelia with jazz-rock, Soft Machine's debut ranges between lovingly performed oblique pop songs and...
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Fourth
7/13/2005, AMG
The Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study. Fourth is the band's free purging of all of...
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Six
7/13/2005, AMG
The Soft Machine were many things to many people, but to most, the real Soft Machine ceased to exist when founder Robert Wyatt left to work on his conspicuously titled...
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Live At The Paradiso
7/13/2005, AMG
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...
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Virtually
7/13/2005, AMG
Recorded on March 23, 1971 for Radio Bremen, during the band's final European tour with Robert Wyatt in the lineup, this is a good (and very well-recorded) document of their...
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Rubber Riff
7/13/2005, AMG
The phrase "Soft Machine in name only" is clearly used too often. There are, in fact, plenty of post-1970 recordings that deserve to share that famous prog moniker with the...
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BBC Live
7/13/2005, AMG
This live set features the Soft Machine on BBC Radio with host John Peel from a March 1971 broadcast on his legendary In Concert series. This show's uniqueness is...
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Spaced
7/13/2005, AMG
In 1969, the Soft Machine were commissioned to provide music for a multimedia show at the Roundhouse in London. As Hugh Hopper writes in the liner notes, "they wanted a...
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Live 1970
7/13/2005, AMG
By 1970, the Soft Machine were ensconced into what would become its most revered lineup and repertoire. The two performance excerpts are from one of the many European jaunts...
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Bundles
7/13/2005, AMG
In the extensive discography of the Soft Machine, albums from the band's mid- to late-'70s jazz-rock fusion period are generally afforded the least respect. Fans all have...
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BBC Radio 1
7/13/2005, AMG
By the time that the Soft Machine had gathered for these BBC Radio 1 live sessions, the membership had once again been altered. Featured on these recordings are founders...
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Noisette
7/13/2005, AMG
In more than an hour of music from a January 4, 1970 concert, this represents the group just after they shrank from a septet to a quintet due to the departure of Nick Evans...
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Live In Paris May 2, 1972
8/25/2004, LAUNCH, Ken Micallef
It’s a great time to be 22 and in thrall to the 1970s. If you are an enterprising DJ with a crafty mouse thumb you can sample and distort everything from Jimi Hendrix to...
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Man In A Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963-1970
7/13/2005, AMG
The subtitle of this double-CD compilation might lead you to believe that this is a retrospective or best-of covering the band's finest era. That is not the case; in fact...
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Fourth/Fifth
7/13/2005, AMG
Releasing Soft Machine's Fourth and Fifth on one album isn't only convenient, but rather intriguing as well. While both albums display the band's wonderful jazz-rock...
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