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One of the most influential progressive rock bands of the late '60s / early '70s, Soft Machine's initial line-up was Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ). They emerged from the UK underground in 1967, featuring prominently at epoch-making London venues such as the UFO Club and Middle Earth to establish a powerful reputation over the next decade with a series of accomplished albums and some innovative concert performances (notably in the UK and France) and with a support slot on the Jimi Hendrix Experience US tours throughout 1968. After two albums for ABC/Probe - The Soft Machine and Volume Two - they signed to CBS/Columbia with a line-up consisting of Wyatt, Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean and bassist Hugh Hopper, releasing their most successful long player, Third, in 1970. This was followed by four more albums during a period of significant acclaim across Europe, and a frequently evolving line-up. Soft Machine disbanded in 1978, apart from the occasional reunion, before being relaunched as Soft Machine Legacy in 2004, touring extensively and making many more albums. Since 2016 they have been known simply as Soft Machine and in March this year the current line-up issued their latest album, Thirteen. They will be playing live across the UK and Europe for the rest of the year and well into 2027, including festivals and club dates in Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Hungary. This extensive boxed set presents the story of the most vital, influential period in the Soft Machine story. Centred around their five CBS albums, all remastered from the original ¼" tapes and including the discovery of an entirely different and previously unreleased set of recordings of their Fifth album, it also contains all of their extant BBC sessions (some have been released before, decades ago, these are the complete performances for the first time) and a significant amount of previously unavailable audio-visual, full concert recordings from Europe (UK/France/Belgium/Germany). Packaged in a sturdy 12" x 12" slipcase, with a hardback book featuring many rare photographs and extensive notes by journalist and author Sid Smith, progressive rock fans (who buy detailed boxed sets like this in large quantities), will delight in this comprehensive examination of one the great names in the genre.

Tracklist:

  1. CD 1:
  2. “Third”
  3. Released in June 1970
  4. Facelift
  5. Slightly All the Time
  6. Moon in June
  7. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  8. CD 2:
  9. London – May 1970
  10. Facelift
  11. Moon in June
  12. Esther’s Nose Job
  13. CD 3:
  14. BBC Radio Sessions 1970
  15. Slightly All the Time
  16. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  17. Eamonn Andrews
  18. BBC Session - 4th May 1970
  19. Facelift
  20. Esther’s Nose Job
  21. BBC Radio 1 “In Concert” – 31st May 1970
  22. Virtually
  23. Fletcher’s Blemish
  24. BBC Radio 1 session – 15th December 1970
  25. CD 4:
  26. The Promenade Concert
  27. Royal Albert Hall 13th August 1970
  28. Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio Three
  29. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  30. Facelift
  31. Esther’s Nose Job
  32. Pig
  33. Orange Skin Food
  34. A Door Opens and Closes
  35. Pigling Bland
  36. 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
  37. CD 5:
  38. “Fourth”
  39. Released in February 1971
  40. Teeth
  41. Kings and Queens
  42. Fletcher’s Blemish
  43. Virtually Part 1
  44. Virtually Part 2
  45. Virtually Part 3
  46. Virtually Part 4
  47. CD 6:
  48. BBC Radio 1 In Concert
  49. 11th March 1971
  50. Blind Badger
  51. Neo Caliban Grides
  52. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  53. Eamonn Andrews
  54. All White
  55. Kings and Queens
  56. Teeth
  57. Pigling Bland
  58. Returns to the Bedroom
  59. Slightly All the Time
  60. Noisette
  61. CD 7:
  62. Gondel Filmkunsttheater, Bremen, Germany
  63. 23rd March 1971
  64. Radio Bremen concert
  65. License from Radio Bremen / Studio Hamburg – OneGate Media
  66. Facelift
  67. Virtually
  68. Slightly All the Time
  69. Fletcher’s Blemish
  70. Neo-Caliban Grides
  71. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  72. Eamonn Andrews
  73. All White
  74. Kings and Queens
  75. Teeth
  76. Pigling Bland
  77. CD 8:
  78. BBC Radio sessions 1971
  79. BBC Radio 1 session – 1st June 1971
  80. Neo-Caliban Grides
  81. Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening
  82. Eamonn Andrews / All White
  83. BBC Radio 1 session – 15th November 1971
  84. As If
  85. Drop
  86. Welcome to Frillsville
  87. BBC Radio 1 session – 11th July 1972
  88. Fanfare
  89. All White
  90. M C
  91. Drop
  92. CD 9:
  93. “Fifth”
  94. Released in July 1972
  95. All White
  96. Drop
  97. M C
  98. As If
  99. L B O
  100. Pigling Bland
  101. Bone
  102. Bonus tracks
  103. The Alternative Fifth Sessions
  104. As If
  105. Untitled Blow
  106. Pigling Bland
  107. (coda) Esther’s Nose Job
  108. All White (Take Two)
  109. As If
  110. Drum Solo
  111. Pigling Bland
  112. CD 10
  113. BBC Radio 1 In Concert
  114. 20 July 1972
  115. Fanfare
  116. All White
  117. Slightly All the Time
  118. M C
  119. Drop
  120. Stumble
  121. L.B.O.
  122. As If
  123. Riff
  124. Gesolreut
  125. CD 11:
  126. “Six”
  127. Released in February 1973
  128. The live record:
  129. Fanfare
  130. All White
  131. Between
  132. Riff I
  133. 37 ½
  134. Gesolreut
  135. E.P.V.
  136. Lefty
  137. Stumble
  138. 5 from 13 (for Phil Seamen with Love ; Thanks)
  139. Riff II
  140. The studio record:
  141. The Soft Weed Factor
  142. Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album (for B.O.)
  143. Chloe and the Pirates
  144. 1983
  145. CD 12:
  146. “Seven”
  147. Released in October 1973
  148. Nettle Bed
  149. Carol Ann
  150. Day’s Eye
  151. Bone Fire
  152. Tarabos
  153. D.I.S.
  154. Snodland
  155. Penny Hitch
  156. Block
  157. Down the Road
  158. The German Lesson
  159. The French Lesson
  160. CD 13:
  161. BBC Sessions 1973 – 1974
  162. BBC Radio 1 John Peel session – 20th November 1973
  163. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
  164. Hazard Profile (Part 1)
  165. Sinepost
  166. Down the Road
  167. BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain session – 26th August 1974
  168. North Point
  169. The Man Who Waved at Trains
  170. Hazard Profile (Parts 1 – 4)
  171. CD 14:
  172. Montreux Festival
  173. 4th July 1974
  174. Hazard Profile
  175. The Floating World
  176. Ealing Comedy
  177. Bundles
  178. Land of the Bag Snake
  179. Joint
  180. The Man Who Waved at Trains
  181. Peff
  182. The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise)
  183. LBO
  184. Riff II
  185. Lefty
  186. Penny Hitch (coda)
  187. Disc 15 – Blu-ray video
  188. The Video vaults 1970 - 1971
  189. Theatre de la Musique, Paris
  190. 2nd March 1970
  191. Recorded for French television – LICENSED FROM INA FRANCE
  192. Eamonn Andrews
  193. Backwards
  194. Mousetrap
  195. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  196. Facelift
  197. Vocal improvisation
  198. Esther’s Nose Job / Pigling Bland
  199. Pop Deux
  200. 12 December 1970
  201. The Recording of Soft Machine Fourth - LICENSED FROM INA
  202. BBC TV – Anatomy of Pop
  203. 10th January 1971
  204. Neo-Caliban Grides
  205. Theatre 140, Brussels
  206. 14th January 1971
  207. Filmed for “Pop Shop” – Belgian TV – LICENSED FROM SONUMA BELGIUM
  208. Improvisation
  209. Neo-Caliban Grides
  210. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  211. Kings and Queens
  212. Teeth
  213. Pigling Bland
  214. Esther’s Nose Job (excerpt)
  215. ….It’s Nothing
  216. Mousetrap
  217. Noisette
  218. Disc 16 – Blu-ray video
  219. The Video vaults 1971 – 1975
  220. ‘Beat Club’ Radio Bremen TV Session
  221. 23rd March 1971
  222. Licensed from Radio Bremen / Studio Hamburg – OneGate Media
  223. Neo-Caliban Grides
  224. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  225. Vocal improvisation
  226. Eamonn Andrews / All White
  227. Berliner Jazztage Philharmonichalle, West Berlin
  228. 7th November 1971
  229. Licensed from ARDPLus GmbH
  230. Neo Caliban Grides
  231. Slightly All The Time
  232. Drop
  233. M C
  234. Out-Bloody-Rageous
  235. As If
  236. Dark Swing
  237. Pigling Bland
  238. Esther’s Nose Job (Outro)
  239. Filmed 5th November 1972 at CBS Studios, London
  240. for “Emission Rockenstock”
  241. Broadcast 30th January 1973 ORTF French Television
  242. Licensed from INA
  243. The Soft Weed Factor
  244. LBO
  245. Gesolreut
  246. BBC TV – FULL HOUSE
  247. 17th February 1973
  248. Soft Machine interviews and the band perform
  249. Gesolreut
  250. Fanfare / All White
  251. Disc 17 – Blu-ray video
  252. The Video Vaults 1973 – 1974
  253. Soft Machine ; Friends ‘Jazz Workshop’
  254. Congresszentrum, Hamburg, Germany on May 17, 1973
  255. Licensed from Radio Bremen / Studio Hamburg – OneGate Media
  256. Fanfare
  257. All White
  258. Link 1
  259. The Soft Weed Factor
  260. Link 2
  261. 37 ½
  262. Link 3
  263. Riff
  264. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
  265. Chloe and the Pirates
  266. Gesolreut
  267. E.P.V.
  268. Link 4
  269. Stumble
  270. One Across
  271. Riff II
  272. Bataclan, Paris
  273. 29th May 1973
  274. Broadcast on “Pop Deux” – French TV 30th June 1973
  275. Licensed from INA
  276. Riff / Down The Road
  277. Gesolreut / Chloe And The Pirates
  278. Montreux Jazz Festival
  279. 4th July 1974
  280. Licensed from Universal Music Operations
  281. Hazard Profile
  282. The Floating World
  283. Ealing Comedy
  284. Bundles
  285. Land of the Bag Snake
  286. Joint
  287. The Man Who Waved at Trains
  288. Peff
  289. The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise)
  290. LBO
  291. Riff II
  292. Lefty
  293. Penny Hitch (coda)

UPC: 198029988123
Label: Sony Uk
Release Date: 11.6.26
Format: CD

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