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Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin.
The Soft Machine is a 1961 novel by American author William S. Burroughs. It was originally composed using the cut-up technique partly from manuscripts belonging to The Word Hoard. It is the first part of The Nova Trilogy.
- William Seward Burroughs
- 1961
- Third (1970) “Third is completely one-of-a-kind. It manages to combine memorable songwriting and melodies with engaging instrumental prowess in a way unmatched elsewhere by Soft Machine or really any other jazz-rock music, which often tends to be virtuosic to the point of inaccessibility and distinctly lacking in memorable melody.
- The Soft Machine (1968) “These guys were making psychedelic pop, and jazz-rock, simultaneously. What they were doing here didn’t hold together for long, but while it did it sounds like a blast.
- Volume Two (1969) “Volume Two is more of the same from the first Soft Machine record. I bought this just recently after getting hooked on Third over forty years ago and it’s only now that I’ve heard anything else the band ever did.
- Bundles (1975) “This is Soft Machine’s first venture in guitar driven jazz-rock. It’s unjustly maligned by Soft Machine “purists” for it’s then commercially more viable sound.
The probably most important and influential band to grow out the Canterbury Scene was SOFT MACHINE. The band emerged as the quartet of Robert WYATT (drums, vocals), Mike RATLEDGE (keyboards), Kevin AYERS (bass, vocals) and Daevid ALLEN (guitar, vocals).
Since 2016 the band formerly known as Soft Machine Legacy was from then on rightfully called ‘Soft Machine’. The Legacy tag, never in fact legally required, was officially been dropped. This is Soft Machine - a living, breathing music that is as vital and relevant today as it ever was.
Mar 20, 2019 · Soft Machine is a legend and an institution of British music, a band who included Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers, Andy Summers (later of The Police), Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Roy Babbington, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Allan Holdsworth, John Etheridge, Percy Jones, Rick Sanders, Dave McRae and Jack Bruce among others ...
Originally a psychedelic rock band, Soft Machine were arguably the most influential group to emerge from the birth of progressive rock and British jazz-rock fusion. They were the seed of the Canterbury scene's family tree that also included Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole, Hatfield and the North, and National Health.
