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Jazz Rock, Fúziós Jazz, 2024.
Remaszterelt 4CD BOX kiadvány + booklet!
This well-recorded and carefully mastered set features the most famous version of the band (the „classic quartet”) on their final European tour on two consecutive nights on February 27 and 28, 1971. While the two sets from the second night (February 28, 1971) have been released previously, this is the first time the entire two nights have been released. Half of it is therefore completely unreleased. It is an excellent stereo recording of the band performing in a relatively small hall; the volume balance between the instruments is not perfect, but there is no other recording of Soft Machine that sounds like the band is playing right in front of you! Also, the label has managed to modestly improve the less than perfect balance between the instruments on this edition.
Soft Machine’s two concerts at the Henie-Onstad Art Center near Oslo, Norway, at the end of February 1971 were special in more ways than one. The circumstances were, of course, unusual… in a museum space, as part of a Boyle family art exhibition, and Mark Boyle’s films were projected during the performances. More importantly, however, both performances were recorded, and superbly so, giving a rare insight into how the music could change significantly from one night to the next during this phase of the band’s existence, even if the setting didn’t.
Felvételek:
CD1 /February 27, 1971 [1st set]/:
1. Facelift
2. Virtually
3. Slightly All the Time
4. Fletcher’s Blemish
CD2 /February 27, 1971 [2nd set]/:
1. Neo-Caliban Grides
2. Out-Bloody-Rageous
3. Vocal Improvisation
4. Eamonn Andrews
5. All White
6. Kings and Queens
7. Teeth
8. Pigling Bland
CD3 /February 28, 1971 [1st set]/:
1. Facelift
2. Virtually
3. Slightly All the Time
4. Fletcher’s Blemish
CD4 /February 28, 1971 [2nd set]/:
1. Neo-Caliban Grides
2. Out-Bloody-Rageous
3. Vocal Improvisation
4. Eamonn Andrews
5. All White
6. Kings and Queens
7. Teeth
9. Pigling Bland
10. Slightly All the Time (Encore)
