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Instrument (s) Keyboards, flute. Years active. 1960s–1990s. Labels. ABC Probe, Columbia, Harvest. Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976.
Jul 9, 2020 · 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 interview for WMSN r...
May 19, 1997 · Story about Syd from the “Opel” album. Story about Syd from the “Opel” album. Roger Keith ‘Syd’ Barrett left Pink Floyd early in 1968. Now, some twenty years later, his brief time with the group froms only a fraction of their history, but its legacy remains incalculable. Barrett wrote, sang and played guitar on almost everything ...
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.
Syd Barrett - Golden Hair Instrumental. 1:55. Syd Barrett - Golden Hair Instrumental. 1:55. Syd Barrett - Opel. 6:28. Syd Barrett - Golden Hair (Remake Take 6) 1:45. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1988 Vinyl release of "Opel" on Discogs.
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.
Oct 20, 2019 · John Etheridge discusses democracy, creative and otherwise, in Soft Machine line-ups present and past, his love of Mike Ratledge's compositions and his acous...
