Soft Machine, The

• 180 GRAM DOUBLE GATEFOLD VINYL

Soft Machine released their third album Third in 1970. It is a double album with each side of the vinyl consisting of a single long composition. Its music explores the emerging Jazz Fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released just a few months earlier.

Third marks the most major of Soft Machine's several shifts in musical genre over their career, completing their transition from psychedelic music to Jazz. It is a significant milestone of the Canterbury scene, featuring interplay between the band's personnel: Mike Ratledge on keyboards, Robert Wyatt on drums, Hugh Hopper on bass and newest member Elton Dean on saxophone.

PERSONNEL:

• Hugh Hopper - bass
• Mike Ratledge - organ, piano
• Elton Dean - alto sax
• Roy Babington - double bass
• Mauk Charig - cornet
• Nick Evans - trombone
• Jimmy Hasting - alto flute, bass clarinet
• Alan Skidmore - teor sax

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 01. Facelift

• SIDE B
• 01. Slightly All the Time

• SIDE C
• 01. Moon In June

• SIDE D
• 01. Out-Bloody-Rageous