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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. [1] Biography and career. Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of a Canterbury secondary modern school headmaster.
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.
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Aug 10, 2023 · Powered by Wyatt’s explosive, expressive drumming and the fuzz- enhanced shriek and skirl of Mike Ratledge’s keyboards, The Soft Machine serves up a kind of genetically-mutated forward-looking pop that draws upon jazz and classical music with a cavalier disregard for any restrictions.
