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Triple album covering the band's whole history to that point, featuring select tracks from all the albums up to Softs (the most recent at the time), the band's first single "Love Makes Sweet Music" and its B-side "Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'" (both later included on 2009 remaster of The Soft Machine) and several unreleased recordings (all later ...
Soft Machine are an English rock band from Canterbury, Kent. The band were formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. Soft Machine were central in the Canterbury scene; they became one of the first British psychedelic acts, and later moved into progressive and jazz rock.
The Soft Machine (also titled Volume One as a reissue) is the debut album by the British psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, released in 1968. It is the group's only album to feature Kevin Ayers as a member.
Third is a live and studio album by the English rock band Soft Machine, released as their third overall in June 1970 by CBS Records.It is a double album with a single composition on each of the four sides, and was the first of two albums recorded with a four-piece line-up of keyboardist Mike Ratledge, drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, saxophonist Elton Dean, and bass guitarist Hugh Hopper.
Kevin Ayers (16 August 1944 – 18 February 2013) was an English singer-songwriter who was active in the English psychedelic music movement. Ayers was a founding member of the psychedelic band Soft Machine in the mid-1960s, and was closely associated with the Canterbury scene. [3]
"Huffin" is an instrumental song written by Karl Jenkins and performed by Soft Machine.It was only released as a live recording, on their album Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (recorded July 1977, released 1978).
"Love Makes Sweet Music" was the first single released by the psychedelic rock group Soft Machine. It is one of the first British psychedelic releases, predating Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne" by a month. [1] The A-side is more pop-oriented, featuring Robert Wyatt on lead vocals was recorded 5 February 1967 and produced by Chas Chandler.
Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine.He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford as well as his erstwhile Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge, and his eventual replacement Hugh Hopper, who had previously worked with him in the semi-pro band Wilde Flowers.