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- Produced by Soft Machine and Hendrix manager Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson, whose credits included Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground, the first Soft Machine album was recorded and mixed in just four days between dates on a nine-week US slog supporting Hendrix.
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Now signed to Probe Records, Soft Machine's first album was recorded in New York City in April at the end of the first tour, though it would not be released until December. Back in London, guitarist Andy Summers, later of the Police, joined the group.
Aug 10, 2023 · Produced by Soft Machine and Hendrix manager Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson, whose credits included Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground, the first Soft Machine album was recorded and mixed in just four days between dates on a nine-week US slog supporting Hendrix.
The performances follow the long-established Soft Machine tradition of two continuous sets, plus an encore. By early 1971 the repertoire had settled down, much like the band itself following several line-up changes in 1969–70, and would indeed remain unchanged until Robert Wyatt’s departure after the July 1971 US tour.
During their stay in New York, the Soft Machine went into Record Plant Studios in New York City, and spent four days recording the first Soft Machine album. Nearly all the tracks were recorded in one take.
- 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.
Soft Machine are an English rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966. As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive rock and jazz fusion. [1] .
With this album, Soft Machine ‘set out their stall’ as to the direction they would take, developing the quirky whimsy and word play of their first record with jazz and late 60’s ‘psychedelic’ sound. Hugh Hopper, formerly the ‘roadie’, joins the line up playing bass and replacing Ayres.
