Sunday, December 23, 2012

Album 51 - Soft Machine - Third

Soft Machine– Third - Columbia – G 30339 - 1970
Genre: Jazz Fusion

Tracks:
  1. Facelift
  2. Slightly All The Time
  3. The Moon In June
  4. Out-Bloody-Rageous

Performers:
Bass – Hugh Hopper
Drums, Vocals – Robert Wyatt
Flute, Clarinet [Bass] – Jimmy Hastings
Flute, Saxophone [Soprano] – Lyn Dobson
Organ, Piano – Mike Ratledge
Producer – Soft Machine
Saxophone [Alto], Saxello – Elton Dean
Trombone – Nick Evans
Violin – Rab Spal


I was still in High School when this came out, but I didn't encounter it for a few years. Released one year after Pink Floyd's UmmaGumma, it is a transition away from the psychedelic-rock genre which the two ensembles shared towards jazz-fusion. About the same time as Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, being in the forefront of the fusion movement.
"Facelift" was recorded live at Fairfield Hall, Croydon, January 4th, 1970 and at Mothers Club, Birmingham, January 11th, 1970.

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