Saying any one track is the best song of the 21st century is quite a statement. For Robert Wyatt of the jazz-rock outfit The Soft Machine, picking the best song was actually quite easy. And you ...
Winner of October’s MipJunior Project Pitch for “Princess Anabella,” Dutch studio Phanta Animation has boarded animated music feature “Rock Bottom,” one of Spain’s most singular and ambitious ...
The departure of Robert Wyatt from the drum stool in Soft Machine and the arrival of Phil Howard could have been a potentially fraught moment in the band's evolution back in the early '70s. Until now ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soft Machine in 1967, l-r: Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen - BIPS/Getty Images Mike Ratledge, who has ...
In recent years, followers of the Soft Machine have had a boon of documents that have shown the band's continual refinement as a jazz-rock juggernaut. Most of the live performances that have surfaced ...
Breda Reactor finds British jazz-rock outfit Soft Machine in one of its many transitional stages. Between the septet that toured in late '69 and the emergence of the "classic" lineup—keyboardist Mike ...
Between Cuneiform Records and the Voiceprint/Blueprint label, Soft Machine fans have been exposed to a diversity of archival live material. Some of it may be of a decidedly lo-fi quality, but the ...