The Soft Machine - "Gesolreut" live BBC TV
"Gesolreut" is an exceptional track from the double album "Six" by "Soft Machine," who had already lost their legendary drummer Robert Wyatt-Ellidge since '71 (he left to found "Matching Mole"), released in 1973, and serves as a bridge between the band's psychedelic roots and the complex, technical jazz-fusion style for which they became famous in the mid-'70s.
Gesolreut (sometimes split into the parts G - sol - re - ut) is, first of all, a musical term that dates back to the medieval period; it is the word used for the notes sol and sol sharp within the hexachordal system (Ut - Re - Mi - Fa - Sol - La) devised by Guido d'Arezzo (a Benedictine monk who lived around the year 1000, recognized posthumously as «Guido, peritus Musicus, et monachus necnon eremita Beandus.»). Furthermore, it is the seventh compound name used in the guidonian manual mnemonic device for solfeggio; ahem, for those who are into music, in this method the note sol/sol sharp is sung using sol, re, or ut, depending on the hexachord used and that's it...
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