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1. www.loudersound.com › features › therell-always-be"There’ll always be questions like, ‘What’s going on with ...

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   Sep 8, 2023 · 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. Were you to construct a mixtape ...

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3. atthebarrier.com › 2022/08/29 › soft-machine-bundlesSoft Machine – Bundles: Remastered and Expanded Edition ...

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   Aug 29, 2022 · The concluding Part Five delivers a tour de force darting synthesizer solo by Mike Ratledge, over a fast-paced shuffle rhythm, where Roy Babbington’s bass and John Marshall’s drums play some fantastic parts, full of tricky percussive accents.

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   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.

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6. www.youtube.com › watchMike Ratledge reminisces about Soft Machine - YouTube

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   Jul 9, 2020 · Mike Ratledge reminisces about Soft Machine. Obviously, and unfortunately, NOT a recent interview, and NOT by me... But I thought it would be fun to make a little film out of Mike's...

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7. jazzjournal.co.uk › 2023/07/14 › soft-machine-theSoft Machine: The Dutch Lesson - Jazz Journal

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   Jul 14, 2023 · Ealing Comedy features a satisfyingly meaty solo by Roy Babbington on six-string bass guitar. Mike Ratledge’s 37½, from Six (CBS, 1973) is delivered at a frighteningly fast pace, at least double the speed of its original studio version.

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8. www.allaboutjazz.com › softs-soft-machine-esotericSoft Machine: Softs album review @ All About Jazz

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   Aug 23, 2010 · Softs represents the real end of an era, however, relegating the group's solo remaining founder, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, to guest status, providing synth colors only on the up-tempo, vamp-driven "Ban-Ban Caliban," a tune more defined by John Etheridge 's high velocity guitar solo and saxophonist Alan Wakeman's similarly impressive soprano ...

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   Who is Mike Ratledge?

   • 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.

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   Who are Wyatt & Ratledge?

   • Wyatt and Ratledge also played at various times in a backing group for the poet/songwriter Daevid Allen. They started Soft Machine with Allen, but the Australian left before the recording of their first album. From the start, Soft Machine aligned themselves to all kinds of artistic movements both at home and abroad.

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   Did Ratledge Make 'Out-Bloody-Rageous' from 'the man who waved at trains'?

   • Given his work with looping technology, it’s perhaps no surprise that it was at his urging that Out-Bloody-Rageous from 1970’s Third and 1975’s The Man Who Waved At Trains, which originally appeared on Bundles, both Ratledge-composed tunes, were included in the running order.

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10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Soft_MachineSoft Machine - Wikipedia

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    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] .