Soft Machine - Hidden Details (2018)

Posted By: pyatak

Date: Sept. 6, 2018

The studio album 'Hidden Details' is the first Soft Machine album (as opposed to Soft Machine Legacy) in 37 years. This is three quarters of the celebrated 1970's version of the legendary jazz-rock group, which recorded the acclaimed 'Softs' album in 1975 - John Etheridge, Roy Babbington and John Marshall - completed by outstanding saxophone star Theo Travis (Robert Fripp/David Gilmour/Gong).

The music is broad ranging from psychedelia to jazz rock to free form improv to simple pop-ish tunes to hypnotic mood pieces. The band plays material from the era (compositions by Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge and Karl Jenkins) as well as many contemporary works.

'Hidden Details', released in 2018, exactly 50 years since the release of the band's 1968 debut album 'The Soft Machine' was recorded in the late Jon Hiseman's studio in Surrey in Dec 2017. The recording features new compositions by the band, group improvisations and interpretations of two Soft Machine classics - from 'Third' and 'Bundles'.

Whilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the heady days of the late 1960's, the band's spirit of musical adventure, and the ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia to free improvised jazz-rock to ambient loop music, continues to make it both unique and totally contemporary.

TRACKLIST

1. Soft Machine - Hidden Details
2. Soft Machine - The Man Who Waved at Trains
3. Soft Machine - Ground Lift
4. Soft Machine - Heart off Guard
5. Soft Machine - Broken Hill
6. Soft Machine - Flight of the Jett
7. Soft Machine - One Glove
8. Soft Machine - Out Bloody Intro
9. Soft Machine - Out Bloody Rageous, Pt. 1
10. Soft Machine - Drifting White
11. Soft Machine - Life on Bridges
12. Soft Machine - Fourteen Hour Dream
13. Soft Machine - Breathe

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