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“Playing the second-ever single alongside brand-new compositions brings a degree of eccentricity...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSoft Machine. The article below was published just before the death of drummer John Marshall in...
“Pop music didn’t offer enough open space for improvisation… there was no way we were going to play...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSoft Machine Despite becoming a defining moment in the Canterbury scene, Soft Machine’s 1968 debut...
"There’ll always be questions like, ‘What’s going on with Mike Ratledge?’ Or a question about Robert...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 9 months agoIn 2015 Soft Machine dropped the 'legacy' tag and threw themselves headlong into being the...
Soft Machine: less a band and more an organism which is constantly evolving
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSoft Machine Other Doors album Soft Machine laboured under the augmented Soft Machine Legacy title...
“I’ve been very lucky throughout my life as a player." Soft Machine drummer John Marshall remembered
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSoft Machine. “I’ve been very lucky throughout my life as a player,” John Marshall [second left in...
The ultimate Canterbury Scene playlist
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCanterbury Playlist It’s not always easy when it comes to deciding what is and isn’t part of the Canterbury Scene. Certainly geography itself is of...
“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 5 months ago. Queen came into existence pushing musical boundaries. By the time the band became world famous for...
“The interesting thing is that she copies Robert Wyatt’s phrasing exactly”: the weird connection...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 8 months agoSoft Machine in 1970 and Whitney Houston in 1986. On the surface, there’s little to connect late...
Arlo Parks Pays Tribute to ’90s Rock in ‘Devotion’ Music Video
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAhead of the release of her sophomore LP, My Soft Machine, Arlo Parks has shared a new single,...
“I suppose what’s different is me. I’ve done a lot of exploring, particularly with Robert Fripp…...
Louder Sound via Yahoo News· 4 months agoHe’s worked with Soft Machine, Steven Wilson, The Tangent, Gong and more – but the saxophonist and...