Soft Machine - Fourth (Black Vinyl)

Soft Machine - Fourth (Black Vinyl)2007 digitally remastered reissue of this 1971 album from UK legends Soft Machine. In the history of Rock music, few bands underwent such a stylistic musical transformation as Soft Machine. Starting life as a band that absorbed Soul and Jazz influences, the group were one of the first to embrace Psychedelia before heading off on a Jazz influenced tangent. In hindsight Soft Machine's evolution could have only taken place in the musical free thinking

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see them carefully stitching together found-footage montages

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floated elegantly in the ether

almost all the tracks are more or less edited

Billy Woodhouse and Elliot Dryden