Biography

Soft Machine were never a commercial enterprise and indeed still remain unknown even to many listeners who came of age during the late '60s, when the group was at its peak. One of the original British psychedelic groups, they were also instrumental in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock. They were also the central foundation of the family tree of the "Canterbury Scene" of British progressive rock acts, a movement that also included Caravan, Gong, Matching Mole, and National Health, not to mention the distinguished solo careers of founding members Robert Wyatt and Kevin Ayers. ~ Richie Unterberger

Top Tracks

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• 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom

• A Certain Kind

• All White

• As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still

• Ban-ban Caliban

• Blind Badger

• Bundles

• Chloe And The Pirates

• Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening

• Down The Road

• Drop

• E.p.v.

• Eamonn Andrews

• Endgame

• Esther's Nose Job

• Facelift

• Fanfare/all White/mc/drop

• Fletcher's Blemish

• Flowers Gone

• Gesolreut

• Hazard Profile, Pt. 1

• Hazard Profile, Pt.1-4

• Hibou, Anemone And Bear

• Hope For Happiness

• Huffin

• Huffin'

• Man In A Deaf Corner

• May I?

• Moon In June

• Mousetrap

• Neo-caliban Grides

• Noisette

• Odds Bullets And Blades, Pt. 1

• Odds Bullets And Blades, Pt. 2

• Out Of Season

• Out-bloody-rageous

• Pataphysical Introduction, Pt. 2

• Peff

• Penny Hitch (coda)

• Pig

• Pigling Bland

• Robert Wyatt's Vocal Improvisation

• Save Yourself

• Second Bundle

• Slightly All The Time/noisette

• Stanley Stamo's Gibbon Album

• Teeth

• The Floating World

• The Man Who Waved At Trains

• The Nodder

• The Tale Of Taliesin

• We Did It Again

• We Know What You Mean

• Why Are We Sleeping?

Discography

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• Rubber Riff

  Blueprint

  1994

• The Land of Cockayne

  One Way Records

  1981

• Softs

  See For Miles Records

  1976

• Bundles

  See For Miles Records

  1975

• Fifth

  One Way Records

  1972

• Fourth

  One Way Records

  1971

• Volume Two

  One Way Records

  1969

• The Soft Machine [Volume One]

  One Way Records

  1968