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    Soft Machine - Facelift: France & Holland (2022)

    Posted By: popsakov
    Soft Machine - Facelift: France & Holland (2022)

    Soft Machine - Facelift: France & Holland (2022)
    2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 628 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 286 Mb
    Scans Included | 01:11:22 + 00:44:38 | RAR 5% Recovery
    Psychedelic Rock / Progressive Rock / Jazz Rock / Fusion / Canterbury Scene
    Cuneiform Records #Rune495/496/497

    Newly-remastered footage of pioneering British psych outfit Soft Machine is headed for release as Facelift France and Holland. The three-CD/DVD set will arrive on March 25th via Cuneiform Records and showcases the earliest known footage of the 1960s Canterbury group. After emerging as forefathers of the 60’s psychedelic movement across the pond in 1966—sharing the stage with Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, and more—Soft Machine reached the dawn of a new decade in 1970. The band moved toward a more eclectic jazz-rock sound and also scaled back personnel to a modest quintet of Mike Ratledge (keyboards, flute), Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Hugh Hopper (bass, guitar, alto sax), and Elton Dean (alto saxophone, saxello, flute, keyboards), with contributions from Lyn Dobson (soprano saxophone, flute, harmonica, vocals). With this lineup—which would last from January to March 1970—the band performed at Paris’ Théâtre de la Musique on March 2nd, footage of which comprises the meat of the release.

    Facelift France and Holland contains the only known video of the five-piece lineup. Though bits and pieces of the set exist on YouTube, this will mark the first official release of the entire show, originally broadcast by France’s Pop 2. Footage of the concert was also previously released in 2008 on Live In Paris 1970, but archivists have gone through the original footage once again to improve video quality as well as remove soundtrack issues including fake applause and hard edits.

    The new release includes the only professionally-recorded performance of “Out-Bloody-Rageous” with Dobson on second saxophone. It also contains the only professionally-recorded performance by the quintet of “Facelift”, with the second appearing on the group’s breakthrough album Third, released in June 1970. In addition to the March 1970 concert in Paris, Facelift France and Holland also hosts a previously-unreleased performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on January 17th.

    Soft Machine's French tours of late 1969 and early 1970 have been the subject of several releases, official and otherwise. Some, including Voiceprint's Facelift, were drawn from hopelessly dodgy audience recordings and are, despite being licensed, simply substandard bootlegs. Others, such as Cuneiform's Noisette, offer carefully curated performances using the best sources possible. The three-disc Facelift France & Holland adds another dimension to Cuneiform's curatorial excavation of Soft Machine's history. Though the band had toured France at the end of 1969 as a septet with a brass section, they were a quintet in early 1970 when they returned to complete the 30-date tour. In addition to drummer Robert Wyatt, bassist Hugh Hopper, saxophonist Elton Dean, and keyboardist Mike Ratledge, the Softs brought English saxophonist Lyn Dobson along.

    This release contains a restored DVD/video of the band's stellar performance at Paris' Théâtre de la Musique. It was originally broadcast in two edited 40-minute segments in April and July 1970 on French television's Pop 2. Painstakingly cleaned thanks to the vault discovery of an earlier work-in-progress edit of the first set, the producers used audience sources as patches to remove fake clapping and noise. The concert is as compelling to watch as to listen to. Wyatt's completely unhinged physicality is on full display here. Soft Machine's interplay throughout is disciplined, instinctive, and sophisticated. The DVD offers the only existing footage of the quintet lineup that existed only from January to March.

    The first audio disc replicates the Paris performance. While the mix is a bit thin in places, the sound remains detailed and dynamic. In addition to scorching versions of "Mousetrap," "Eamonn Andrews," and "Noisette," this is the only professionally recorded performance available of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" with Dobson. There is one caveat: the full version of Ratledge's killer "Slightly All the Time" sounds less than optimal. Along with almost half of the second set, it was left out of the edited broadcast. An audience recording of the tune has been inserted back into this performance for historical significance, but this is a tiny quibble.

    The second audio disc contains Soft Machine's Concertgebouw appearance in Amsterdam that January. Its source is an unusually clean soundboard tape. In addition to a moody, sinister opening reading of "Facelift," it features a true rarity in the live performance of Hugh Hopper's "12/8 Theme." A studio version didn't appear until the bassist released his 1996 Monster Band album. The concert also offers a sprawling, completed version of "Esther's Nose Job" – truncated for the Pop 2 performance.

    France & Holland showcases Soft Machine at an exciting juncture. Absent for much of 1968 due to U.S. tours with Jimi Hendrix Experience and a brief split, this return, following the septet dates in December 1969, reveals a band that had all but completely abandoned the vanguard pop psychedelia of earlier albums to develop a unique approach that embodied both the emergent prog rock and electric jazz scenes. This is indispensable.

    ~ Thom Jurek, All Music

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    Track List CD1:

    01. Eamonn Andrews [9:43]
    02. Mousetrap [3:57]
    03. Noisette [0:37]
    04. Backwards [4:04]
    05. Mousetrap (reprise) [0:25]
    06. Out-Bloody-Rageous [15:12]
    07. Facelift [18:35]
    08. Slightly All The Time [6:41]
    09. Moon In June [3:20]
    10. Esther's Nose Job [8:51]

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    03. 12/8 Theme [10:53]
    04. Drum Solo [0:49]
    05. Esther's Nose Job - Pigling Bland [16:32]

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