Soft Machine - Hazard Profile

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SDB

Sound Quality

A+

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mp3

Bitrate

192

Tracks

1sgl track

Soft Machine - Live in Paris

The Soft Machine was a pioneering English psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz fusion band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. The Soft Machine line-up of Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall and Mike Ratledge lasted under half a year and recorded just one half of an album (side two of "5"). Live in Paris is a rare recording of this quartet during that lineup’s final days; Dean left Soft Machine later that month. It is also a special, rare example of a Soft Machine concert recorded and released in its entirety. Live in Paris shows Soft Machine playing in top form. As Aymeric Leroy points out in the liner notes, the music illustrates main composers Ratledge and Hopper's shift in compositional style…towards looser and more minimalistic themes." The tracklisting consists of works from "Third" and "5" in often significantly different versions, as well as several piece not recorded elsewhere. This excellent quality release is taken from the less than 2 dozen shows performed by this version of the band, and shows that despite such a short life, that this version of the quartet definitely had their own style and sound.

1. Plain Tiffs
2. All White
3. Slightly All The time
4. Drop
5. M.C.
6. Out-Bloody-Rageous
1. Facelift
2. And Sevens
3. As If
4. LBO
5. Pigling Bland
6. At Sixes

LINE UP:
Elton Dean: saxello, alto sax, rhodes piano
Hugh Hopper: bass John Marshall: drums
Mike Ratledge: electric piano, organ

REPOST FROM JAN 2007

Henry Cow feat. Robert Wyatt - Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

In May and June 1975, Henry Cow played three concerts with Robert Wyatt as special guest in Paris, London and Rome. Their performance of "Bad Alchemy" and Wyatt's "Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road" in London was later included on the "Concerts" double-LP, which was released in 1976 (first on the Norwegian underground label Compendium, then on the budget Virgin sub-label Caroline) and compiled live recordings and a splendid BBC radio session from the period of September 1974 to August 1975 (including great renditions of Cow classics, but also interminable - to some - sidelong improvisations).

SETLIST

- Muddy Mouse (a)|Solar Flares|Muddy
   Mouse (b)|5 Black Notes And 1 White
   Note|Muddy Mouse (c)|Muddy Mouse
- Improvisation
- Bad Alchemy|Little Red Riding Hood Hits
   The Road
- Living In The Hearts Of The Beast
- We Did It Again