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Tag Archives: Mike Ratledge
SOFT MACHINE – Floating World Live
August 27, 2025

MoonJune 2006 / 2025 And then there were five: flaunting unfamiliar fusion fantasies in front of audience, Canterbury’s finest take flight. It had taken these adventurers about eight months to incorporate a full-member guitarist into their ranks to become a … Continue reading
Posted in Reissues
Tagged Allan Holdsworth, fusion, instrumental, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, live, Mike Ratledge, prog rock, Roy Babbington, Soft Machine
SOFT MACHINE – Drop
July 24, 2025

MoonJune 2008 / 2025 Laid down on German stage in November 1971, a unique image of least-documented line-up in the British experimentalists’ history tells an unhinged-arrangements story. Five months. This quartet lasted only five months, yet that seemed enough to … Continue reading
Posted in Reissues
Tagged Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, instrumental, jazz rock, live, Mike Ratledge, Soft Machine
SOFT MACHINE’s Classic Quartet Unveil Historical Two-Night Stand
February 29, 2024

There are musicians for whom “more of the same” is like a red rag to a bull, and SOFT MACHINE have always saw such a notion as a challenge, which is why, while they might perform the same pieces during … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine