Soft Machine - The Soft Machine - Volume Two
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Artist: Soft MachineEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-04-30
Music Label: Water
Soundtracks:
- Pataphysical Introduction, Pt. 1
- Hibou, Anemone and Bear
- Hulloder
- Dada Was Here
- Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
- Have You Ever Bean Green?
- Pataphysical Introduction, Pt. 2
- Out of Tunes
- As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
- Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening
- Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging
- Pig
- Orange Skin Food
- A Door Opens and Closes
- 10: 30 Returns to the Bedroom
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Free Music Review: You really need to own this album, a totally great album!
Hit: 5 Stars
Volume Two is Soft Machine's second album, released on the Probe label (distributed by ABC in America), and to me, the music is clearly an improvement on their debut! Kevin Ayers had left, with Hugh Hopper replacing him. This is perhaps one of the finest albums I have ever heard from 1969. Mike Ratledge provides us some great organ and piano work, and of course Robert Wyatt providing great drum work and some rather clever lyrics. This album really demonstrates the jazz background of these guys, and how they were able to show those influence in a psychedelic/early prog rock setting. This is a collection of mainly short pieces, some of them experimental, some of them proper "songs", plus Robert Wyatt reciting the British alphabet (that is, Z is "Zed"), and then doing it in reverse shortly after. There are the occasional experimental passage that gets me thinking of Krautrock groups, like early Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, or Amon Duul II at their most experimental. Some of those jazzy pieces show you where the band would be headed for their Third album. Trying to pick out a highlight on this album is really difficult for me, for so many reasons, since the music changes rather fast. The great thing is the band never bores the listener for a moment here. To think that this came out a few months before King Crimson gave us In the Court of the Crimson King, this album really deserves mention as one of the albums that help start progressive rock in the first place. This is truly one of the highlights of the Canterbury scene, as far as I'm concerned. Certainly Third is thought of as their artistic high point, but you never want to miss Volume Two as you're really missing out on some great stuff, this album is totally essential!
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Originally released in 1969 following the departure of Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine second album is a more experimental and ambitious work that its predecessor. With Robert Wyatt as the driving creative force and the addition of Hugh Hopper on bass, Volume Two (blending pysch, jazz, and pop with enough whimsy and humor) is progressive rock at its finest. A classic of the Canterbury Scene. Featuring new liner notes.Classic Rock Music CDs
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