Volumes One & Two

Soft Machine - Volumes One & Two

Volumes One & Two
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Artist: Soft Machine
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Music Label: Big Beat UK
Soundtracks:
  1. Hope For Happiness
  2. Joy Of A Toy
  3. Hope For Happiness (reprise)
  4. Why Am I So Short?
  5. So Boot If At All
  6. A Certain Kind
  7. Save Yourself
  8. Priscilla
  9. Lullabye Letter
  10. We Did It Again
  11. Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle
  12. Why Are We Sleeping?
  13. Box 25/4 Lid
  14. Pataphysical Introduction-PT I
  15. A Concise British Alphabet-PT I
  16. Hibou, Anemone And Bear
  17. A Concise British Alphabet-PT II
  18. Hulloder
  19. Dada Was Here
  20. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
  21. Have You Ever Bean Green?
  22. Pataphysical Introduction-PT II
  23. Out Of Tunes
  24. As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
  25. Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening
  26. Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
  27. Pig
  28. Orange Skin Food
  29. A Door Opens And Closes
  30. 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom

Free Music Notes for Volumes One & Two

Free Music Review: My most amazing concert!
Hit: 5 Stars

I had third-row tickets to see Jimi Hendrix at the Virginia Beach Dome. But of course we had to suffer through some unknown opening act first, a trio called "The Soft Machine".

After the Soft Machine got through with us, Hendrix was an anti-climax! There was Kevin Ayers on bass guitar and vocals, Mike Ratledge on organ (with some extra sounds built in-first time I'd ever heard fuzz organ before), and up front was drummer and lead singer Robert Wyatt. The organ and bass were on a higher level behind Robert, who actually led the band.

They began their set, and played without a break for something like an hour and fifteen minutes, doing smooth transitions from one song to the other so that it came off like a suite of songs. Their musicianship was astonishing! And their music was so unlike anything I'd heard before (or since), that I was absolutely blown away! They quit, and the lights came back up, and as I looked around, I saw others with their mouths hanging open and their eyes wide, just as mine were. There was a moment or two of complete silence as people gathered their wits and came back down to earth. Then a standing ovation! We were completely wrung out.

I didn't know how much of what they did was planned and how much was improvised, but when I bought their first album, I was amazed to hear that the record was a short version of the concert that I had been lucky enough to see. A true psychadelic journey!

Hendrix did the smart thing when he came on. He left the lights on, and started slow, doing an intimate version of "Red House Blues" while smoking a cigarette, giving us time to recover, and slide into his vision of reality bit by bit.

Volume two is a logical extension of volume one. A bit jazzier, a bit more refined sound-wise than volume one, which was a bit on the raw side from time to time. But it's a further look at the same musical vision, and a unique one at that. The two albums work together well as a musical unit.

This is not background music, it is not dance music. It is not music that you listen to casually. It's music that will take you on an emotional journey if you give it a chance. It's somewhat free-form, not adhering to conventional song structures or chord progressions, but they used a lot of jazz and rock elements to make a music vision that was theirs and theirs alone.

If you have time and a reasonable attention span, give the Soft Machine a chance to show it to you. But please don't do as one clueless reviewer did, and judge a body of music from just listening to a few brief clips. That's ridiculous!

After their third album this group lost me. As much as I loved their music, they moved into personal avenues of expression that I was no longer able to share. Some songs sounded to me as if they inadvertantly recorded the time they spent tuning and doing sound checks and put that on the record instead of the songs. But the first two Soft Machine albums, and much of the Third, still shine as gems, as unique today as they were in the late sixties. Nothing like it before or since.

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