| All Artists: Soft Machine Title: Soft Machine Members Wishing: 3 Total Copies: 0 Label: EMI Europe Generic Original Release Date: 1/1/2009 Re-Release Date: 7/28/2009 Album Type: Import, Original recording remastered Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock Styles: Europe, Britain & Ireland, Experimental Music, Progressive, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 600753205051 |
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 | Soft Machine Soft Machine Genres: International Music, Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1968 album including two bonus tracks: 'Love Makes Sweet Music' and 'Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin''. The debut album by The Soft Machine was originally released in October 1968... more » |
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Album Description Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1968 album including two bonus tracks: 'Love Makes Sweet Music' and 'Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin''. The debut album by The Soft Machine was originally released in October 1968 and features the original line-up of Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, Kevin Ayres, bass guitar and vocals and Mike Ratledge on keyboards. The roots of Soft Machine lay in the city of Canterbury in Kent and the circle of bohemian friends with Robert Wyatt at their core. Gathering at the large Georgian house owned by Robert's mother, Honor, Wyatt shared the company of Kevin Ayers, Hugh and Brian Hopper, Mike Ratledge and a drifting Australian beatnik, Daevid Allen spending many hours listening to modern Jazz and being exposed to the world of beat poetry and Dadaist art. Universal. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsGood album, bad remaster Jack Melmoth | Oakland, CA | 11/05/2009 (3 out of 5 stars) "This reissue of "The Soft Machine" is marred by inept remastering. The line between remastering and remixing can often be blurred, and such is the case here. In what is in fact a new mix, the bass is placed far too high and becomes intrusive. It competes with the vocals and keyboards in a way that didn't happen on the original album. Instead of this version, I'd recommend the 2007 reissue on the Water label from San Francisco. It doesn't have the rather fine CD insert, but it gets the music right." Classic William R. Nicholas | Mahwah, NJ USA | 10/16/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "This first Soft Machine album is the prototype for the absolute masterpiece, Soft Machine Volume 2. That does not mean this debut is not a monster.
If that rave sounds qualified, it is. The second album is a miricle of fuzz and full sound: the origional band in full attack. Here, they employ the same innovations, seuged tracks, self referancial lyrics that are quite modernist--"I like to smoke and drink and ball--but most of all I like to talk about me" says master Wyatt. What puts the second album over the first is the sound: this is from 1968, and even the best art rock was still stuck in thin production and farfissa organs. The subtance here is no problem. It contains all the humor and spontaity that made this band brillant over the first two records. It is just that recording technique, improving by the month during this era, had not caught up to the Softs. That is why the second album brings it all home Still, the music and lyrics make this increadibly inventive for 1968, and this is still an essential piece. " |
