Third available on August 26 2017 from Amazon for 6.99
Soft Machine - Third Remastered available on June 08 2017 from Base for 7.59
UPC bar code 828768729328 ξ1 registered July 15 2018
UPC bar code 828768729328 ξ2 registered July 23 2016
UPC bar code 828768729328 ξ3 registered June 08 2017
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Pop & Rock Audio
Manufacturered by Sony Bmg Europe
Product weight is 0.23 lbs.
2007 digitally remastered and expanded reissue of this 1970 album from UK legends Soft Machine features a bonus disc that contains a BBC Live Session recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. In the history of Rock music, few bands underwent such a stylistic musical transformation as Soft Machine. Starting life as a band that absorbed Soul and Jazz influences, the group were one of the first to embrace Psychedelia before heading off on a Jazz influenced tangent. In hindsight Soft Machine's evolution could have only taken place in the musical free thinking environment that was the music business of the late 60's / early 70's. It was an evolution that would produce some of the most startlingly brilliant and innovative music of the period. Sony/BMG. 2007.
Soft Machine is an incredibly unique band from the late '60s that has gone through many changes in to the '70s.Their sound is characterized by Mike Ratledge's Fuzz Lead Organ, Hugh Hopper's Fuzz Bass, a Perry Farrell-like voiceof Robert Wyatt along with Robert's incredible Jazz Drumming. For this album Elton Dean's Saxophone wasadded to clinch the sound that Soft Machine would carry throughout the '70s.This is the last truly great Soft Machine album. The first th..
Arguably, the best psychedelic jazz-rock album of the late 60's-early 70's bar none. Listening to it 45 years later, it loses none of its brilliance. The level of musicianship and the inventiveness of the songwriting and arrangements is stunning. These guys were light years ahead of everyone else at the time. It is completely understandable that Soft Machine could not top this album with Soft Machine 4 or Soft Machine 5. which are great albums, but Third stands al..