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Soft Machine   Pays : England Genre : Scene Canterbury Dates : 1966 - 1976 URL : cliquez ici Acheter un album de Soft Machine - Soft Machine a été consulté 7009 fois - Soft Machine a une moyenne de : 7.96 sur 10 - Soft Machine a reçu 60 note(s) et 15 critique(s) - Soft Machine est classé : 392 ème
Biographie de Soft Machine
Few English bands from the mid-60's had the mystique of the original Soft Machine. Several have acquired it in retrospect - the Soft Machine actually had it (albeit uninternationally) at the time. They may have lost it in time (through musical self indulgence) but there is no denying their place in the cultural history of 'those days'. The Soft machine formed in 1966 but their story starts several years earlier at the Simon Langton School in Canterbury, whose pupils at the time included Robert Wyatt, Mike Retledge and Hugh Hopper - all of varying ages, but sharing a common interest in jazz. Much has been made, over the years, of the idyllic and liberal atmosphere of the school and its influence on a Canterbury supposedly on the brink of turning into a kind of English Haight-Ashbury. But Robert Wyatt has since dispelled the myth by saying: 'It was an extremely dull grammar school and I can't remember a single stimulating thing about Canterbury.' Around this time Wyatt and Hopper met a genial Australian by the name of Daevid Allen. Aged 21, Allen was a fully fledged beatnik - he knew and had worked with William Burroughs and the then unknown Terry Riley in Paris; He had taken LSD and had long hair. With Hopper playing bass and Wyatt learning the drums, the three of them performed occasionally as an avant-garde trio but spent much time in Paris, on Allen's houseboat, working on tape-loops with all manner of new delights. By 1964, with the Beatles and the Stones sweeping all before them, Canterbury was developing its own healthy music scene. At the center was a group called the Wilde Flowers, the initial line-up of which comprised Hugh Hopper, his brother Brian on saxes, Robert Wyatt, Richard Sinclair on guitar and Kevin Ayers - who had been recommended because he was the only other long-hair in Kent - on vocals. The Wilde Flowers played a strange mixture of R&B, soul and experimental jazz. The band continued in various incarnations until mid ... Lire la suite
Discographie de Soft Machine
Albums Studio
Legacy 2006 (Studio) Moyenne : pas de note   Land Of Cockayne 1981 (Studio) Moyenne : 7   Softs 1976 (Studio) Moyenne : 7.75   Rubber Riff 1976 (Studio) Moyenne : 5   Bundles 1975 (Studio) Moyenne : 8   Seven 1973 (Studio) Moyenne : 6.33   Fifth 1973 (Studio) Moyenne : 8.1   Sixth 1973 (Studio) Moyenne : 7.33   Fourth 1971 (Studio) Moyenne : 6.58   Third 1970 (Studio) Moyenne : 8.37   Two 1969 (Studio) Moyenne : 8.57   The Soft Machine 1968 (Studio) Moyenne : 8.33
Albums Live
Floating World Live (bremen 1975) 2006 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Grides 2006 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Middle Earth Master 2006 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Live At The New Morning 2006 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   British Tour '75 2005 (Live) Moyenne : 6   Legacy Live In Zaandam 2005 (Live) Moyenne : 7.5   Breda Reactor 2005 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Soft Machine & Heavy Friends Bbc In Concert 1971 2005 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Sometime In Soho 2004 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Bbc - Radio 1967 - 1971 2003 (Live) Moyenne : 9   Bbc Radio 1971 - 1974 2003 (Live) Moyenne : 8.12   Facelift 2002 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Turns On Vol. 1 2001 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Turns On Vol. 2 2001 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Noisette 2000 (Live) Moyenne : 8.5   Virtually 1998 (Live) Moyenne : 8   Live 1970 1998 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Spaced 1995 (Live) Moyenne : 8   Live In France 1995 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Live At The Paradiso 1995 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Bbc Radio 1 Live In Concert 1972 1994 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Bbc Radio 1 Live In Concert 1971 1993 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   The Complete Peel Sessions 1990 (Live) Moyenne : 8   Live At The Proms 1988 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note   Alive & Well In Paris 1978 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note
Albums Compilation, EP, Demo, Bootleg etc.
The Story Of Soft Machine 2005 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Out Bloody Rageous (anthology 67-73) 2005 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Kings Of Canterbury : Soft Machine 2003 (Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo/Demo/Bootlegs) Moyenne : pas de note   Backwards 2002 (Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo/Demo/Bootlegs) Moyenne : 8.5   Man In A Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963-1970 2001 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Fourth / Fifth 1999 (Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo/Demo/Bootlegs) Moyenne : pas de note   The Best Of Harvest Years 1995 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   As If 1991 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   The Untouchable Collection 1990 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Jet Propelled Photographs 1989 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : 8.5   At The Beginning 1977 (Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo/Demo/Bootlegs) Moyenne : 8.5   Triple Echo 1977 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   The Soft Machine Collection (volumes 1 & 2) 1973 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : 9.25   Face And Place 1972 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Rock Generation Volume 7 1972 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note   Rock Generation Volume 8 1971 (Boxset/Compilation) Moyenne : pas de note
DVD de Soft Machine
New Morning - The Concert In Paris 2006 (Live) Moyenne : pas de note
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Line-up du dernier album studio de Soft Machine
- Elton Dean / Saxello, Alto Saxophone, Fender Rhodes, Percussion - John Etheridge / Electric Guitar - Hugh Hopper / Electric Bass - John Marshall / Drums, Percussion

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