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Soft Machine

Musical Group

British band formed in Canterbury in 1966, central to the Canterbury scene; they blended psychedelia, jazz and experimental approaches and underwent many lineup changes that shifted their sound across the 1970s.

Associated acts and spin-offs mentioned in the reviews and public sources include Matching Mole, Gong and Nucleus. Key members across eras include Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper, Karl Jenkins and Allan Holdsworth.

DeBaser's reviews present Soft Machine as a central Canterbury band mixing psychedelia, jazz and experimentalism. Reviewers celebrate albums like Third and Volume Two while noting lineup-driven stylistic shifts. The overall reception across the reviews is enthusiastic and reverential.

For:Fans of progressive rock, Canterbury-scene enthusiasts, listeners of experimental jazz-rock and psychedelic music

 Thus "Third" is born, a superb monument of experimental music and the entire art of the Twentieth century, a swan herald of a sudden dawn, a rainbow framing an autumn sunset, a blazing comet in boundless skies.

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 "Playing now is lovely here in the BBC"

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 Hang your ears on the handles of your umbrellas, you will be hit by a rain of electric and reckless sounds!!

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