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Mar 20, 2019 · March 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 ...
Sep 8, 2023 · Plunging into Soft Machine has never been for the faint-hearted. William Burroughs' 1961 novel from which Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge took their collective name in 1966, was famed for its ‘cut-up technique’ whereby sentences and paragraphs were shredded and then reassembled to produce startling juxtapositions and unsettling literary images.
Aug 10, 2023 · Mike Ratledge’s soloing on Lullabye Letter is a highpoint, and is closer to the swirling pointillism of free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor than the blues-based idiom usually preferred by his keyboard-playing contemporaries. “He was groundbreaking,” says Bill MacCormick.
Jul 28, 2017 · by Gaz Cloud | July 28, 2017 | Interviews. Soft Machine was formed in Canterbury by Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayres and Mike Ratledge in 1966. Casting off their early psychedelic leanings and moving towards an innovative, jazzier, fusion sound, the ensuing 50 years have seen stylistic overhauls and personnel changes that would have ...
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