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Soft Machine is a legend of rock music, a band who included Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Andy Summers (from the Police), Hugh Hopper, Daevid Allen, Elton Dean, among others, and even, briefly Jimi Hendrix. Since it's creation in 1966, this band created progressive rock, led the 'Canterbury' trend, influenced generations of musicians. It sometimes offers US tours and live albums, like this one, recorded in May 2005 in Holland. The line-up is Elton Dean (sax, piano), John Etheridge (guitar), Hugh Hopper (bass) and John Marshall (drums) all of them having played with Soft Machine in the seventies. Six splendid instrumental tracks, for an intense and sincere jazz fusion: an event!
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メGetting in and out of sight, the way SOFT MACHINE roll on seems unstoppable, not least because the band's many line-ups allow former members come together in any combination and still sound canonical. Or not so canonical, as the band that visited Zaandam on May 10th, 2005 lean more towards highly charged jazz fusion rather than progressive experimentation - judging by this limited edition concert recording which is only a part of what was played on that night. It starts elegiac, with John Etheridge and Elton Dean popping interplay of guitar and sax on "Ash", gains momentum when Hugh Hopper's bass and John Marshall's drums hit the bottom and clicks into Coltrane-esque groove on a new Hopper's tune, "1212". Yet the groove and the momentum are emotional, while the rhythmic extravaganza is mostly withdrawn from here. Still, exotic ebbing and quirky patterns are retained in classic "Kings And Queens" and let loose on "Big Creese" where the instrument jolt as if to get back to the time the legacy of which this MACHINE fully live up to. Simply a must." ミ DMITRI EPSTEIN, LET IT ROCK (Israel)