Soft Machine - Third, Fourth, Fifth & Six / 3 live bootlegs / 2 videos
Progressive rock | EAC (APE CUE) / FLAC >>> EAC (APE CUE) / MPG | covers info | 2,13 GB
Performed by the Soft Machine (Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, Elton Dean & others).
Peachfuzz‘ recent post of Terry Riley’s In C kinda took me for a ride down memory lane the last few days. This particular rendition of In C actually was the first ‘contemporary’ piece I ever heard, burned itself into my brains & ears, and set the doors of perception wide open. Once through these doors, there was no way back.
Before that, the groundwork had been done by British (free) jazz scene of those days (with Tippitt, McGregor, Tracey and the like), and the very diverse Canterbury scene, with its major representative, the Soft Machine.
Whereas I followed the way back to the source and beyond, the Soft Machine clearly stood in the middle of their times. Starting as a psychedelic beat band in the sixties, peaking as the experimental fusion band they were in the early seventies (under heavy influence of the emerging free jazz, contemporary electronical composers, minimalists such as Riley, and even dodecaphonists or serialists as Schoenberg or Boulez), eventually fading away into a drooling shopping music ensemble under the aetherical guidance of Karl ‘Adieu’ Jenkins.
Focus here of course is the Soft Machine at its peak (the core trio/quartet with Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt, and Elton Dean), exerting a huge influence on young composers-to-be in the areas of electronical, experimental and contemporary music as well as jazz.
Thus, presented today (and fulfulling my own request at avax’s music request section) are the official albums Third to Six, three live bootlegs derived from audience cassette tapes (as usual in accordingly poor quality) and two mpegs, one at a German TV station (NDR, Beat Club), and the other containing live footage of the Dutch Kralingen Festival.
If any of you has the BBC recordings, or other bootlegs, feel free to share, in lossless please.
Soft Machine - Third (2002)
EAC (APE CUE) | covers | 337 Mb
Tracks:
1. Facelift (Hopper)
2. Slightly all the time (Ratledge)
3. Moon in june (Wyatt)
4. Out-bloody-rageous (Ratledge)

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ & piano), Hugh Hopper (bass), Robert Wyatt (drums & vocal), Elton Dean (alto sax & saxello), Rab Spall (violin), Lyn Dobson (flute & soprano sax), Nick Evans (trombone) & Jimmy Hastings (flute & bass clarinet).

Recorded in 1970, re-issue in 2002.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Soft Machine - Fourth (2007)
EAC (APE CUE) | covers | 207 Mb
Tracks:
1. Teeth (Ratledge)
2. Kings and queens (Hopper)
3. Fletcher’s blemish (Ratledge)
4. Virtually part 1 (Hopper)
5. Virtually part 2 (Hopper)
6. Virtually part 3 (Hopper)
7. Virtually part 4 (Hopper)

Total time: 39:13

Performed by Roy Babbington (double bass), Mark Charig (cornet), Elton Dean (alto sax, saxello), Nick Evans (trombone), Jimmy Hastings (alto flute, bass clarinet), Hugh Hopper (bass guitar), Mike Ratledge (organ, piano), Alan Skidmore (tenor sax) & Robert Wyatt (drums).

Recorded in 1971, re-issue (Japanese remaster) in 2007.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2
part 3

Soft Machine - Fifth (2007)
EAC (APE CUE) | covers booklet | 197 Mb
Tracks:
1. All white (Ratledge)
2. Drop (Ratledge)
3. M.C. (Hopper)
4. As if (Ratledge)
5. L.B.O. (Marshall)
6. Pigling bland (Ratledge)
7. Bone (Dean)

Total time 36:33

Performed by Elton Dean (alto sax, saxello, electric piano), Hugh Hopper (bass guitar), Mike Ratledge (organ, electric piano), Phil Howard (drums, tracks 1-3), John Marshall (drums, tracks 4-6), Roy Babbington (double bass, tracks 4-6).

Recorded in 1971/1972, re-issue (Japanese remaster) undated, presumably in 2007.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2

Soft Machine - Six (1999)
EAC (APE CUE) | covers | 394 Mb
Tracks:
1. Fanfare — 0:42
2. All white — 4:46
3. Between — 2:24
4. Riff — 4:36
5. 37 1/2 — 6:51
6. Gesolreut — 6:17
7. E.P.V. — 2:47
8. Lefty — 4:56
9. Stumble — 1:42
10. 5 from 13 (For Phil Seamen with love & thanks) — 5:15
11. Riff II — 1:20
12. The soft weed factor — 11:15
13. Stanley Stamps gibbon album — 5:50
14. Chloe and the pirates — 9:28
15. 1983 — 7:11

Total time 75:19

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ & pianos), Hugh Hopper (bass), John Marshall (drums) & Karl Jenkins (reeds & pianos).

Recorded in 1973, re-issue in 1999.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4

Soft Machine - Live at the Country Club London, April 13, 1969 (undated release)
Audience cassette tape >>> CDR >>> FLAC >>> wave >>> dehiss/cue’s >>> cdr >>> eac (ape cue) | no cover | 117 Mb
Tracks (according to the original poster):
1. Moon in june (cassette break off)
2. Moon in june (continued or reprise (not clear))
3. Eamonn Andrews (presumably)
4. Mousetrap
5. Noisette
6. Backwards
7. Mousetrap (reprise)
(8. Esther’s Nose Job)
8. Hibou, anemone and bear (cassette break off)

NB: There’s no trace of esther’s nose job, so it’s not in the cue’s. Also, there’s no certainty on Eamonn Andrews, since this was usually performed as an in-between, and has various different shapes throughout time.

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ, pianos), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocal), Hugh Hopper (bass).

Recorded in 1969.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2

Soft Machine - Live at the Bataclan, Paris, June 25th, 1969 (undated release)
Audience cassette tape >>> CDR >>> FLAC >>> EAC (APE CUE) | no covers | 295 Mb
Tracks:
1. Drum intro (0:15)
2. Moon in june (intro) (0:42)
3. Facelift (5:27)
4. Moon in june (proper) (13:57)
5. Clarence in wonderland (2:58)
6. Mousetrap (6:49)
7. Noisette ( 0:34)
8. Backwards (2:27)
9. Mousetrap reprise (0:40)
10.Hibou anemone and bear (4:42)
11. Improvisation (2:42)
12. Esther’s nose job (14:49)

Total time: 56:01

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ, pianos), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocal), Hugh Hopper (bass).

Recorded in 1969.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2
part 3

Soft Machine - Kings of Canterbury (2003)
Audience cassette tape >>> CDR >>> FLAC >>> EAC (APE CUE) | covers | 2-CD | 483 Mb
CD1: From Live at the Paradiso
1. Hulloder
2. Dada Was Here
3. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
4. Have You Ever Been Green?
5. Pataphysical Introduction Pt II
6. As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still
7. Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging
8. Hibou, Anemone And Bear
9. Fire Engine (Reprise)
10. Facelift
11. Moon in June

CD2: From Facelift
1. Slightly All The Time
2. Mousetrap
3. Noisette
4. Backwards
5. Mousetrap (Reprise)
6. Eamonn Andrews
7. Esther’s Nose Job
8. Pigling Band
9. I Should’ve Known
10. Esther’s Nose Job (Reprise)
11. Pig
12. Orange Skin Food-A Door Opens and Closes-10-30 Returns To The Bedroom

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ, pianos), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocal), Hugh Hopper (bass), Elton Dean (reeds).

This compilation of live material from 1969-70 is selected from three albums which emerged many years after their recording - ‘Live at The Paradiso’ (featuring the short-lived trio line-up of Wyatt, Hopper and Ratledge), ‘Facelift’ (recordeded at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls in April 1970 ) & ‘Live 1970′.
Tracks cd1/10 to cd2/10 are very poor quality, the rest is ok.

Released by Recall in 2003.

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2
part 3
part 4
part 5

Soft Machine - Composition based on three tunes / Esther’s nose job
2 MPG’s | 155 Mb

Composition based on three tunes:
Video: MPEG1 Video 352×288 (4:3) 25.00fps 1150Kbps
Audio: MPEG Audio 44100Hz stereo 224Kbps

Recorded at the German NDR studios for the show ‘Beat Club’ in 1971.

Esther’s nose job:
Video: MPEG2 Video 300×240 25.00fps 2496Kbps
Audio: MPEG Audio 44100Hz stereo 224Kbps

Recorded at the Dutch Kralingen Festival in 1970.

Performed by Mike Ratledge (organ, pianos), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocal), Hugh Hopper (bass), Elton Dean (piano, reeds).

Packed as a contiguous zip inside a multi-part 7z, served by RS, redirected through lix.in
part 1
part 2

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