Soft Machine discography

Soft Machine discography
Studio albums15


Discography

Studio albums
Year Album Line-up Additional musicians
1968 The Soft Machine Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers Hugh Hopper
1969 Volume Two Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper Brian Hopper
1970 Third Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean Lyn Dobson, Nick Evans, Jimmy Hastings, Rab Spall
1971 Fourth Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean Evans, Hastings, Mark Charig, Roy Babbington, Alan Skidmore
1972 Fifth Ratledge, Howard/Marshall, Hopper, Dean Babbington
1973 Six Ratledge, Marshall, Hopper, Jenkins
1973 Seven Ratledge, Marshall, Babbington, Jenkins
1975 Bundles Ratledge, Marshall, Babbington, Jenkins, Holdsworth Ray Warleigh
1976 Softs Jenkins, Marshall, Babbington, Wakeman, Etheridge Ratledge
1981 Land of Cockayne Jenkins, Marshall Holdsworth, Warleigh, Alan Parker, John Taylor, Jack Bruce, Dick Morrissey
2018 Hidden Details[1][2][3] Travis, Marshall, Babbington, Etheridge Nick Utteridge

Live albums
Year Album Released Line-up
September 1967 –
May 1968		 Middle Earth Masters 2006 Ratledge, Wyatt, Ayers
March 1969 Live at the Paradiso 1969 1996 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper
November 1969 –
May 1970		 Backwards 2002 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean, Dobson, Evans, Charig
January 1970 Noisette 2000 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean, Dobson
January 1970 Breda Reactor 2005 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
April 1970 Somewhere in Soho 2004 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
April 1970 Facelift 2002 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
August 1970 Live at the Proms 1970 1988 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
October 1970 Grides 2006 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
February 1971 Live at Henie Onstad Art Centre 1971 2009 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
March 1971 Virtually 1998 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
March 1971 Soft Machine & Heavy Friends – BBC in Concert 1993 Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper, Dean
November 1971 Drop 2008 Ratledge, Hopper, Dean, Howard
May 1972 Live in Paris 2008 Ratledge, Hopper, Dean, Marshall
June 1972 Soft Stage – BBC in Concert 1972 1994 Ratledge, Hopper, Marshall, Jenkins
Nov–Dec 1972 Six (Disc 1) 1973 Ratledge, Hopper, Marshall, Jenkins
May 1973 NDR Jazz Workshop Hamburg, Germany 2010 Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington
July 1974 Switzerland 74 (CD + DVD) 2015 Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, Holdsworth
January 1975 Floating World Live 2006 Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, Holdsworth
October 1975 British Tour '75 2005 Ratledge, Marshall, Jenkins, Babbington, Etheridge
July 1977 Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris 1978 Marshall, Jenkins, Etheridge
February 2019 Live at The Baked Potato (recorded live at The Baked Potato, Los Angeles, CA on 1 February 2019 and released on 20 March 2020 – originally only available as a (twelve-track only-200-numbered-copie limited edition) double vinyl LP but as of 3 July 2020 it is available on CD – Tonefloat Records)[4][5] 2020 Marshall, Babbington, Etheridge, Travis

Compilation albums
Year Album Notes
1972 Jet Propelled Photographs 1967 demos with the original line-up
1977 Triple Echo A "best of" album, including their first single and material from all the studio albums up to Softs
1990 The Peel Sessions Recorded during 1969–71
1994 Rubber Riff Stock music composed by Jenkins, 1976
1996 Spaced Recorded in 1969, soundtrack for a work of artist Peter Dockley
2001 Turns On Volume 1 Lo-fi recordings from April to December 1967
2001 Turns On Volume 2 Lo-fi recordings from November 1967 to August 1968
2003 BBC Radio 1967–1971
2003 BBC Radio 1971–1974

Other minor releases

These albums were released by small labels, and most of their content is available on the main albums listed above.

Year Album Note
1972 Rock Generation Vol. 7 One side only, April 1967 De Lane Lea Studios demo recordings with Giorgio Gomelsky.
1972 Rock Generation Vol. 8 One side only, more April 1967 demo recordings; this and the preceding entry were combined on many subsequent releases, under such titles as Faces & Places Vol.7 (BYG Records, 1972), At the Beginning (Charly Records, 1976), Jet Propelled Photographs (Piccadilly, 1980 [LP], Charly, 2003 [CD]), and several others. These issues contain the track "She's Gone", recorded in April 1967, which is not the same track released in Triple Echo.
1975 Soft Machine 1&2 (Architects of Space Time)
1990 The Untouchable Compilation from Bundles, Softs, and Alive and Well.
1991 As If... Curious (probably unauthorized) compilation with six Ratledge/Hopper compositions ranging from 1970 (Third) to 1973 (Six) in sparse order.
1994 Soft Machine Live At The Paradiso 1969 plus six tracks from Jet Propelled Photographs.
1995 The Best of Soft Machine – The Harvest Years – Anthology 1975–1978 Includes tracks from Bundles (1975) to Alive & Well (1978).
1998 Canterburied Sounds (Vol. 1–4) Voiceprint Records released four CDs, containing several tracks by various musicians from the Canterbury scene (mainly from the Soft Machine and the Caravan bands), compiled and with notes by Brian Hopper. The four single CDs are re-released in 2013 in a boxed set.
1998 Live 1970 (Also known as Live in Europe 1970) Tracks 1 & 2 recorded on 13 February 1970 at Swansea (or 14 at the London School of Economics); tracks 3–11 also in Live at the Proms; here, with the edited version of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" from 11:54 to 8:46, and "Esther's Nose Job" split in 7 contiguous tracks.
1999 Fourth / Fifth
2001 Turns On vol. 1 Includes tracks from the Middle Earth and Speakeasy clubs in London, recorded in 1967, including a low-quality remaster of "She's Gone" (2:37), recorded in June 1967, previously available only on Triple Echo (1977).
2001 Turns On vol. 2 Includes low-quality tracks from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, 10 December 1967, the Middle Earth Club, 10 November 1967 and from the Col Ballroom, Davenport, Iowa, 11 August 1968.
2001 Man in a Deaf Corner Anthology 1963–1970; CD1 mainly with live pieces from 1963 to circa 1967, with tracks 7, 8, 9 also in Turns On vol. 1, resp. tr. 2-1-16; CD2 with tracks 1–10 recorded at the Paradiso, 29 March 1969 also in Live at the Paradiso (about 32 min out of 40 min); tracks 11–12 ("Facelift" and "Moon in June" – short versions) also in Live 1970, resp. tr. 1–2; tracks 13–16 recorded at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon on 26 April 1970 also in Facelift, resp. tr. 4–7; track 17 is a Jakko Jakszyk rendition of "As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still" in conjunction with the two short tracks "That Still and Perfect Summer" and "Astral Projection in Pinner" to appear in his future album The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (Iceni 2006).
2004 Six/Seven
2005 Out-Bloody-Rageous: An Anthology 1967–1973
2005 Orange Skin Food A 2-CD live compilation of previously released live recordings; tracks from Somewhere In Soho, recorded 20–25 April 1971, Facelift, recorded 26 April 1970 and the entire Live in Europe 1970, recorded 13 or 14 February 1970 and 13 August 1970 at the Proms.
2010 Original Album Classics Includes the whole Third, Fourth, Fifth, Six and Seven in the 2007 remaster.
2011 Tales of Taliesin: The EMI Years Anthology 1975–1981
2013 68 Credited to Robert Wyatt, it nonetheless contains an 18 minutes early version of "Rivmic Melodies" (to appear in the 1969 album Volume 2) and a 20 minutes early version of "Moon in June" (to appear in the 1970 album Third), both recorded in U.S. in 1968, after Soft Machine dissolution, and just before the new formation with Hopper in place of Ayers.
2013 Canterburied Sounds Re-issue in a single 4 CDs edition of the four titles previously released in 1998 by Brian Hopper on Voiceprint.
2014 Tanglewood Tails (2 CDs), anthology; Disc 1 with tracks 1–4 from 1963 (also in "Canterburied Sounds"), tracks 5–12 from 1967 studio recordings (also in Turns On vol. 1); Disc 2 with tracks 1–4 live from the Col Ballroom, Davenport, Iowa, 11 August 1968 (also in Turns On vol. 2), tracks 5–6 live from the Paradiso, Amsterdam, 29 March 1969 (also in Live at the Paradiso), tracks 7–11 live from the Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 26 April 1970 (also in "Facelift"). The quality of tracks are far better than in both volumes of Turns On (especially "She's Gone" – June 1967 version that now has a quality comparable to the Triple Echo version – that is up to now the only acceptable CD version of this track).
2014 Soft Machine Turns On (An early collection) (2 CDs) is a reprint (from Floating World Records) of the two Turns On volumes of 2001, with the same track list. The low quality of the former editions was here maintained.
2014 Live in 1970 (4 CDs) is a reprint of two live concerts, CD1 and CD2 recorded at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club on 20–25 April 1970 (already in Somewhere in Soho, Voiceprint, 2004), CD3 and CD4 recorded at Het Turfschip, Breda, Netherlands on 31 January 1970 (already in Breda Reactor, Voiceprint, 2005).
2014 Live in the 70s (4 CDs) is a reprint of various live concerts, CD1 and the first four tracks on CD2 also issued as Live in Paris (Cuneiform, 2004), tracks 5–7 of CD2 also appear on Backwards (Cuneiform, 2002); Mark Charig is here wrongly mentioned as the trumpet player; CD3 was previously released as Noisette (Cuneiform, 2000) and CD4 was previously issued as Drop (Moonjune, 2008).
2015 Hugh Hopper - Volume 9: Anatomy of Facelift Five performances of "Facelift", 1969 through 1971.
2019 Live in London in the early Sixties (LP) Eight tracks recorded live in 1963 in London, with Brian Hopper (sax), Hugh Hopper (cello, bass), Robert Wyatt (drums, voice), Kevin Ayers (bass, voice), Mike Ratledge (organ), Daevid Allen (guitar). These tracks are also in Man in a Deaf Corner (2001, 2 CD) as tracks 1-01, 1-06 in a different remix.
2019 Top Gear Live in London 1967-1969 (LP) Side 1 recorded in 1967 with Robert Wyatt (drums, voice), Kevin Ayers (bass, voice), Mike Ratledge (organ); side 2 recorded in 1969 with Robert Wyatt (drums, voice), Hugh Hopper (bass, voice), Mike Ratledge (organ) and including Facelift and Moon in June.

Singles

The 1960s

1968

  • 1968, 08–11, Live at Davenport, Iowa (supporting The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • 1968, 08–16, Live at the Merryweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland (supporting The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
  • 1968, 09–13, Live at the Hollywood Bowl, California (supporting The Jimi Hendrix Experience)

1969

  • 1969, 04–13, Live at the Country Club in London
  • 1969, 06–25, Live at the Ba.Ta.Clan in Paris
  • 1969, 08–09, Live at Plumpton Race Course – only "Moon in June" was performed
  • 1969, 10–05, Live at the Lyceum in London
  • 1969, 10–28, Live at Actuel Festival in Amougies, Belgium – excerpt
  • 1969, 10–6–27, Live at the Liverpool University – excerpt

The 1970s

1970

  • 1970, 01–04, Live at the Fairfield Halls, in Croydon – This concert was published as Noisette (Cuneiform, 2000), but this official release lacks "Facelift" that was in part used for the Third album (1970), where it is joined by another version recorded 11 January and overdubbed. This concert is inserted here only because the version of "Facelift" herein contained (over 25 minutes long) is a very special version and the full song would deserve an official treatment.
  • 1970, 01–17, Live at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
  • 1970, 04–04, Live at the Kolner Festival, Germany
  • 1970, 09–01, BBC Radiophonic Workshop – Eamonn Andrews explained
  • 1970, 09–17, Alan Black "Sound of the Seventies" (broadcast 25 Sept.), recorded at the Camden Theatre in London
  • 1970, 10–24, Live at DeDoelen, Rotterdam – excerpt

1971

  • 1971, 02–07, Live at the Roundhouse, London, UK
  • 1971, 03–21, Live in Het Turfschip, Breda, Netherlands
  • 1971, 06–07, Live at the Cafe au Go Go (the Gaslight) in New York City
  • 1971, 10–17, Donaueschinger Musiktage – this concert has appeared partially on Drop (Moonjune 2008)
  • 1971, 11–07, Live at the Berlin Jazz Festival – there exist two versions of this concert: the live recording and the radio broadcast (with German DJ inserts) – this concert has appeared partially on Drop (Moonjune 2008).

1972

  • 1972, 04–22, Live at Palazzo dello Sport in Bergamo, Italy
  • 1972, 04–24, Live at the Piper Club in Rome – one of the last concerts with Elton Dean
  • 1972, 06–07, Live at King's Cross Cinema – this concert is arguably the first with Karl Jenkins
  • 1972, 12–03, Live at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, UK

1974

  • 1974, 03–11, Radio Interview with Mike Ratledge and Alan Holdsworth for an American radio broadcast
  • 1974, 03–13, Live at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York
  • 1974, 03–17, Live at "My Father's Place" in Roslyn, New York
  • 1974, 03–23–24, Live at the Howard Stein's Academy of Music in New York
  • 1974, 08–10, Live at Le Naiadi, Pescara, Italy
  • 1974, 09–20–24, Villa Pamphili Festival in Rome

1975

1976

  • 1976, 02–18, Live at the Palasport in Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 1976, 08–08, Live in Trieste, Italy
  • 1976, 10–09, Live in Roskilde, Copenhagen
  • 1976, 12–03, Live at the Palais des Sports in Paris

Discography
Year Album Soft Machine members involved
The Wilde Flowers
1965–69 The Wilde Flowers (released in 1994) Ayers, Hopper, Wyatt
Planet Earth
1978 Planet Earth Ratledge, Jenkins
Soft Head
1978 Rogue Element Hopper, Dean
Soft Heap
1979 Soft Heap Hopper, Dean
1979 Al Dente (released in 2008) Hopper, Dean
1982-83 A Veritable Centaur (released in 1995) Dean
Rubba
1979 Push Button Ratledge, Jenkins
2nd Vision
1980 First Steps Etheridge, Sanders
Rollercoaster
1980 Wonderin' Ratledge, Jenkins
Soft Works
2002 Abracadabra (released in 2003) Hopper, Dean, Holdsworth, Marshall
Soft Mountain
2003 Soft Mountain (released in 2007) Hopper, Dean
Soft Bounds
2004 Live at Le Triton (released in 2005) Hopper, Dean
Soft Machine Legacy
2005 Live In Zaandam Hopper, Dean, Etheridge, Marshall
2006 Soft Machine Legacy Hopper, Dean, Etheridge, Marshall
2006 Live at the New Morning Hopper, Dean, Etheridge, Marshall
2007 Steam Hopper, Travis, Etheridge, Marshall
2010 Live Adventures Babbington, Travis, Etheridge, Marshall
2013 Burden of Proof Babbington, Travis, Etheridge, Marshall
Delta Saxophone Quartet
2007 Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening: The Music Of Soft Machine Hopper (as a guest on some tracks)

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