Soft Machine: Soft Machine
Soft Machine
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- Label: Sundazed
- Erscheinungstermin: 22.5.2012
* Digipack
Debütalbum der englischen Rockband The Soft Machine (benannt nach dem Roman von William S. Burroughs), die zusammen mit Caravan zu den bekanntesten Vertretern des "Canterbury Sound" gehört. Dieses Meisterwerk wurde 1968 veröffentlicht und besteht aus dem Trio Robert Wyatt (Schlagzeug und Gesang), Mike Ratledge (Orgel und Klavier) und Kevin Ayers (Bass, Gesang und Klavier). Dies war das einzige Album der Band, auf dem Ayers zu hören war. Zu den weiteren Mitgliedern gehören der Bassist Hugh Hopper (der später nach Ayers' Ausscheiden ein festes Mitglied wurde) und die New Yorker Gesangsgruppe The Cake. The Soft Machine war eines der ersten Alben, die in den legendären Manhattan-Studios The Record Plant aufgenommen wurden, die im selben Jahr mit Jimi Hendrix' Electric Ladyland eingeweiht worden waren. Das Album erhielt eine 5-Sterne-Bewertung auf AllMusic von Richie Unterberger. Die Gruppe gilt als eine der einflussreichsten Underground-Bands ihrer Zeit.
The first two albums by England's legendary Soft Machine, originally released in 1968 and 1969, remain among the most innovative and influential releases of that musically fertile era. These seminal LPs offered a visionary psychedelic-progressive-jazz-rock mix that helped to make the Soft Machine one of Britain's first significant underground bands, as well as a key force in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.
A product of the same fabled Canterbury scene that spawned such beloved cult acts as Caravan and Hatfield and the North, the Soft Machine was the rare art-rock combo whose members possessed the instrumental skills to execute their ambitious musical ideas, as well as a playful sense of humor that balanced the band's complex compositions and adventurous improvisations. By the time they began making albums, the Soft Machine was already a sensation in the budding U. K. rock underground, thanks to their now-legendary performances at such fabled London clubs as the UFO, the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, where they shared stages with the likes of Pink Floyd and Tomorrow.
The Soft Machine, co-produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson, announced the band's arrival on the international scene in fine style. With an unusual three-man lineup comprised of Kevin Ayers on bass and vocals, Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, and Mike Ratledge on keyboards, the album was recorded in New York, while the band was touring North America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In contrast to the extended pieces that would later dominate the Soft Machine's repertoire, the album focuses on shorter, more concise songs that nonetheless provide plenty of room for the musicians to demonstrate their varied abilities.
This landmark gem has been out of print for decades, but now it is back in a meticulously packaged Sundazed compact disc edition. Mastered from the original analog tapes, this lovingly restored album sounds as powerful and imaginative as ever.
(sundazed. com)
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The first two albums by England's legendary Soft Machine, originally released in 1968 and 1969, remain among the most innovative and influential releases of that musically fertile era. These seminal LPs offered a visionary psychedelic-progressive-jazz-rock mix that helped to make the Soft Machine one of Britain's first significant underground bands, as well as a key force in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.
A product of the same fabled Canterbury scene that spawned such beloved cult acts as Caravan and Hatfield and the North, the Soft Machine was the rare art-rock combo whose members possessed the instrumental skills to execute their ambitious musical ideas, as well as a playful sense of humor that balanced the band's complex compositions and adventurous improvisations. By the time they began making albums, the Soft Machine was already a sensation in the budding U. K. rock underground, thanks to their now-legendary performances at such fabled London clubs as the UFO, the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, where they shared stages with the likes of Pink Floyd and Tomorrow.
The Soft Machine, co-produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson, announced the band's arrival on the international scene in fine style. With an unusual three-man lineup comprised of Kevin Ayers on bass and vocals, Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, and Mike Ratledge on keyboards, the album was recorded in New York, while the band was touring North America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In contrast to the extended pieces that would later dominate the Soft Machine's repertoire, the album focuses on shorter, more concise songs that nonetheless provide plenty of room for the musicians to demonstrate their varied abilities.
This landmark gem has been out of print for decades, but now it is back in a meticulously packaged Sundazed compact disc edition. Mastered from the original analog tapes, this lovingly restored album sounds as powerful and imaginative as ever.
(sundazed. com)
- Tracklisting
- Mitwirkende
Disk 1 von 1 (CD)
- 1 Hope For Happiness
- 2 Joy Of A Toy
- 3 Hope For Happiness (Reprise)
- 4 Why Am I So Short?
- 5 So Boot If At All
- 6 A Certain Kind
- 7 Save yourself
- 8 Priscilla
- 9 Lullabye Letter
- 10 We did it again
- 11 Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
- 12 Why Are We Sleeping?
- 13 Box 25/4 Lid
