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Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ).
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.
Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. As a central band of the Canterbury scene , the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive and jazz rock , becoming a purely instrumental band in 1971. [2]
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 ...
Drummer Robert Wyatt, bassist Kevin Ayers and organist Mike Ratledge offered what I recall as grunting, clunky, intermittent burst of sounds that didn’t add up to songs at all. If they intended this to be avant garde jazz, they had nothing on the AACM members I’d been listening to, who developed intricate if often long and oblique pieces ...
Dec 12, 2013 · That left drummer/singer Robert Wyatt and keyboard player Mike Ratledge in limbo. The disbandment was really only a hiatus, because the newfound popularity of the band more or less forced them to re-consider and head back into the studio to create their second milestone album, Soft Machine 2.
Nov 23, 2022 · soft machine, gong, kevin ayers, robert wyatt, jimi hendrix, psychedelic rock, prog, jazz rock, experimental. Language. English. Soft Machine, Sweet Music Volumes 1, 2, and 3. Rare tracks from 1966-1970. Tracks 1-2: July 1966 Demos, recorded as Mister Head.
