Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Soft Machine - Softs [Japan Ed.] (1976)

Year: June 1976 (CD Jul 26, 2012)
Label: Air Mail Archive (Japan), AIRAC-1668
Style: Jazz Rock, Fusion, Progressive Rock
Country:
Time: 45:21
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 304 Mb

John Etheridge replaced Allan Holdsworth on guitar shortly after the release of the previous album, Bundles, and Alan Wakeman, cousin of Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, took over saxophone duties from Karl Jenkins. Karl would play keyboards exclusively from this point onward. During the recording of the album, the group's last remaining original member, Mike Ratledge, left the band.
In 2019, Etheridge told Ed Masley that:
We came to record the album and Mike Ratledge never showed up. He had kind of been wanting to leave, he told me that. And I think the thought of making the album was the final straw, so he didn't show up. It didn't make a lot of difference, to tell you the truth, by then, which is a shame... But Karl Jenkins had sort of taken over and he was writing most of the music.
Two tracks recorded during the early sessions with Ratledge were included on the album. Wakeman and bassist Roy Babbington left the group not long after the album was released, Wakeman having been a member for less than six months. The album was originally to be titled One Over the Eight, a reference to this being the band's ninth album, but this title was eventually rejected.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softs_(album))

01. Aubade (01:51)
02. The Tale Of Taliesin (07:17)
03. Ban-Ban Caliban (09:23)
04. Song Of Aeolus (04:26)
05. Out Of Season (05:31)
06. Second Bundle (02:36)
07. Kayoo (03:27)
08. The Camden Tandem (02:01)
09. Nexus (00:49)
10. One Over The Eight (05:29)
11. Etika (02:27)

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