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Tag Archives: Soft Machine
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 WORKS – Abracadabra
July 12, 2025

MoonJune 2003 / 2025 Finest proponents of English fusion reclaim their creative success and return to form in a fiercely mysterious manner. As undefined as it may seem with constant changes of SOFT MACHINE’s personnel, this ensemble’s always had a … Continue reading
Posted in Reissues
Tagged Allan Holdsworth, Elton Dean, fusion, Hugh Hopper, instrumental, jazz rock, John Marshall, Soft Machine, Soft Works
PAT SMYTHE QUARTET’s Gig With SOFT MACHINE Members Is Out
April 21, 2024

It takes a jazz connoisseur today to know about PAT SMYTHE QUARTET, the British foursome commanded by a piano player who, having served in Joe Harriott’s revolutionary ensemble and helped introduce free jazz the UK, gathered a band of his … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Allan Holdsworth, John Marshall, Pat Smythe Quartet, 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




