Soft Machine - Fourth (1971) {2013 Japan Mini LP Blu-spec CD2}
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Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones.

Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study. 

Fourth is the band's free purging of all of that knowledge, woven into noisy, smoky structures of sound. Their arcane rhythms have a stop-and-go mentality of their own that sounds incredibly fresh even though it is sonically steeped in soft and warm tones.Obviously there is a lot of skillful playing going on, as the mix of free jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and Gong-like psychedelia coalesces into a skronky plateau. Robert Wyatt's drumming is impeccable so perfect that it at times becomes an unnoticeable map upon which the bandmembers take their instinctive direction. 
Mike Ratledge's keys are warm throughout, maintaining an earthy quality that keeps its eye on the space between the ground and the heavens that Soft Machine attempt to inhabit. Elton Dean's saxophone work screams out the most inventive cadence, and since it's hardly rhythmic, it takes front and center, spitting out a crazy language. Certainly the band is the preface to a good portion of Chicago's post-rock output, as the Softs undoubtedly give a nod to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew experiments, which were going on in the U.S. at the same time.


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Tracklist:
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01. Teeth
02. Kings and Queens
03. Fletcher's Blemish
04. Virtually part 1
05. Virtually part 2
06. Virtually part 3
07. Virtually part 4


*2013 Columbia / Sony Music Japan | SICP-30164


Personnel:
Hugh Hopper - bass guitar
Mike Ratledge ΓÇô (Lowrey) organ, (Hohner) piano
Robert Wyatt ΓÇô drums
Elton Dean ΓÇô alto saxophone, saxello

Additional personnel
Roy Babbington ΓÇô double bass (1,3,4,6)
Mark Charig ΓÇô cornet (2,3,4)
Nick Evans ΓÇô trombone (1,2,4)
Jimmy Hastings ΓÇô alto flute (6), bass clarinet (1,6)
Alan Skidmore ΓÇô tenor saxophone (1,6)


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