Discografia
SOFT MACHINE
SOFT MACHINE - Soft Machine, 1968 (Probe) [CD: Big Beat'89]
Mike Ratledge (o/p/mel) - Robert Wyatt (voc/d) - Kevin Ayers (b/voc/p)
guest : Hugh Hopper (b) - Cake (bv)
Rec : Apr 1968 - Loc : New York (Record Plant) - Pr : Chas Chandler/Tom Wilson
Tracks : Hope For Happiness - Joy Of A Toy - Hope For Happiness (reprise) - Why Am I So Short ? - So Boot If At All - A Certain Kind - Save Yourself - Priscilla - Lullabye Letter - We Did It Again - Plus Belle Qu'Une Poubelle - Why Are We Sleeping ? - Box 25/4 Lid
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SOFT MACHINE - Volume Two, 1969 (Probe) [CD: Big Beat'89]
Mike Ratledge (o/p/hpcd/fl) - Robert Wyatt (voc/d) - Hugh Hopper (b/acg/as)
guest: Brian Hopper (ts/ss)
Rec : Feb/Mar 1969 - Loc : London (Olympic) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : [Side 1 : Rivmic Melodies] Pataphysical Introduction (Pt. 1) - A Concise British Alphabet
(Pt. 1) - Hibou, Anemone And Bear - A Concise British Alphabet (Pt. 2) - Hulloder - Dada Was Here - Thank You Pierrot Lunaire - Have You Ever Bean Green ? - Pataphysical Introduction
(Pt. 2) - Out Of Tunes - [Side 2 : Esther's Nosejob] As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening - Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging - Pig - Orange Skin Food - A Door Opens And Closes - 10:30 Returns To The Bedroom
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SOFT MACHINE - Third, 1970 (CBS) [2 LP] [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o/p/elp) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d/voc/o/elp/b) - Elton Dean
(as/saxello)
with Lyn Dobson (fl/ss) - Nick Evans (tb) - Jimmy Hastings (fl/bcl) - Rab Spall
(vln)
Rec : Jan-May 1970 - Loc : London (IBC) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Facelift - Slightly All The Time (incl. Noisette / Backwards) - The Moon In June - Out-Bloody-Rageous
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SOFT MACHINE - Fourth, 1971 (CBS) [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o/elp/p) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d) - Elton Dean (as/saxello)
with Roy Babbington (cb) - Mark Charig (tpt) - Nick Evans (tb) - Jimmy Hastings
(fl/bcl) - Alan Skidmore (ts)
Rec : Oct/Nov 1970 - Loc : London (Olympic) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Teeth - Kings And Queens - Fletcher's Blemish - Virtually
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SOFT MACHINE - 5, 1972 (CBS) [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o/p/elp) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Elton Dean (as/saxello) - Phil Howard (d) [1-3] - John Marshall (d) [4-7]
with Roy Babbington (cb) [4-7]
Rec : Nov 1971-Feb 1972 - Loc : London (Advision) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : All White - Drop - MC - As If - L.B.O. - Pigling Bland - Bone
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SOFT MACHINE - Six Album, 1972 (CBS) [double LP] [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o/elp/p/celeste) - Hugh Hopper (b/effects) - Karl Jenkins (ob/bs/ss/elp/p/celeste) - John Marshall
(d/pc)
Rec : Oct-Dec 1972 - Loc : London (Advision) [studio LP]/Guildford-Brighton [live LP] - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Fanfare - All White - Between - Riff - 37 1/2 - Gesolreut - E.P.V. - Left - Stumble - 5 From 13 - Riff II - The Soft Weed Factor - Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album
(for B.O.) - Chloe And The Pirates - 1983
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SOFT MACHINE - Seven, 1973 (CBS) [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o/elp/syn) - Karl Jenkins (ob/bs/ss/rec/elp) - Roy Babbington (b/cb) - John Marshall
(d/pc)
Rec : Jul 1973 - Loc : London (Columbia) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Nettle Bed - Carol Ann - Day's Eye - Bone Fire - Tarabos - D.I.S. - Snodland - Penny Hitch - Block - Down The Road- The German Lesson - The French Lesson
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SOFT MACHINE - Bundles, 1975 (Harvest) [CD: See For Miles]
Mike Ratledge (o/elp/syn) - Karl Jenkins (ob/p/elp/ss) - Allan Holdsworth (g) - Roy Babbington (b) - John Marshall
(d/pc)
guest: Ray Warleigh (fl)
Rec : Jul 1974 - Loc : unk - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Hazard Profile - Gone Sailing - Bundles - Land Of The Bag Snake - Peff - Four Gongs Two Drums - The Floating World
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SOFT MACHINE - Softs, 1976 (Harvest) [CD: See For Miles]
Karl Jenkins (p/elp/syn) - Alan Wakeman (ss/ts) - John Etheridge (g) - Roy Babbington (b) - John Marshall (d)
guest : Mike Ratledge (syn)
Rec : Mar 1976 - Loc : London (Abbey Road) - Pr : Soft Machine
Tracks : Aubade - The Tale Of Taliesin - Ban Ban Caliban - Song Of Aeolus - Out Of Season - Second Bundle - Kayoo - The Camdem Tandem - Nexus - One Over The Eight - Etika
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SOFT MACHINE - Triple Echo, 1977 (Harvest) [3 album boxed set]
[Compilation with tracks from 1967 to 1976, including some previously unreleased material]
Tracks : Love Makes Sweet Music [from '67 single] - Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' [from '67 single] - Memories ['67 Gomelsky
demos] - She's Gone [unreleased version, rec. June'67] - Why Am I So Short ? [1] - So Boot If At All [1] - A Certain Kind [1] - We Did It Again [1] - Plus Belle Qu'Une Poubelle [1] - Why Are We Sleeping ? [1] - A Concise British Alphabet
(Part 2) [2] - Hulloder [2] - Dada Was Here [2] - Thank You Pierrot Lunaire [2] - Have You Ever Bean Green ? [2] - Pataphysical Introduction
(Part 2) [2] - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still [2] - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening [2] - The Moon In June [BBC/Top Gear '69] - Esther's Nosejob [BBC/Top Gear '69] -
Mousetrap/Noisette/Backwards/Mousetrap Reprise [BBC/Top Gear '69] - Slightly All The Time [BBC/Top Gear '70] - Out-Bloody-Rageous [BBC/Top Gear '70] - Eamonn Andrews [BBC/Top Gear '70] - Teeth [4] - Kings And Queens [4] - All White [5] - Bone [5] - Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album [6] - Carol Ann [7] - Hazard Profile
(Part 1) [Bundles] - The Tale Of Taliesin [Softs]
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SOFT MACHINE - Alive & Well (Recorded in Paris), 1978 (Harvest) [CD]
Karl Jenkins (p/kb/syn) - Ric Sanders (vln) - John Etheridge (g) - Steve Cook (b) - John Marshall (d)
Rec : Jul 1977 - Loc : Paris (Le Palace) - Pr : Mike Thorne
Tracks : White Kite - Eos - Odds Bullets And Blades - Song Of The Sunbird - Puffin - Huffin - Number Three - The Nodder - Surrounding Silence - Soft Space
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SOFT MACHINE - Land of Cockayne, 1981 (EMI) [CD: One Way]
Karl Jenkins (p/elp/moog/synclavier/comp) - John Marshall (d) - Allan Holdsworth (g) - Jack Bruce (b) - Alan Parker (g) - John Taylor
(elp) - Ray Warleigh (as/bfl) - Dick Morrissey (ts) - Stuart Calver (bv) - John G Perry
(bv) - Tony Rivers (bv)
Rec : 1980 - Loc : Pye & Riverside Studios, London - Pr : Mike Thorne
Tracks : Over 'n' Above - Lotus Groves - Isle Of The Blessed - Panoramania - Behind The Crystal Curtain - Palace Of Glass - Hot-Buscuit Slim - (Black) Velvet Mountain - Sly Monkey - 'A Lot Of What You
Fancy...'
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SOFT MACHINE - Live at the Proms 1970, 1988 (Reckless) [CD]
Elton Dean (as/saxello) - Mike Ratledge (o/elp) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt
(d/voc)
Rec : Aug 1970 - Loc : London (Royal Albert Hall) - Pr : unk
Tracks : Out-Bloody-Rageous - Facelift - Esther's Nosejob [incl. Pig - Orange Skin Food - A Door Opens And Closes - Pigling Bland - 10.30 Returns To The
Bedroom]
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SOFT MACHINE - Jet Propelled Photographs, 1989 (Charly) [CD: Charly/Spalax'95]
Daevid Allen (g/b) - Mike Ratledge (o/p) - Kevin Ayers (b/g/voc) - Robert Wyatt
(d/voc)
Rec : Apr 1967 - Loc : London (Advision) - Pr : Giorgio Gomelsky [eng: Eddie
Offord]
Tracks : That's How Much I Need You Now - Save Yourself - I Should've Known - Jet Propelled Photograph
(aka Shooting At The Moon) - When I Don't Want You - Memories - You Don't Remember - She's Gone - I'd Rather Be With You
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SOFT MACHINE - The Untouchable, 1990 (Castle) [CD]
[Compilation of tracks from Bundles, Softs and Alive And Well]
Tracks : Hazard Profile - The Man Who Waved At Trains - Peff - Four Gongs Two Drums - Ban Ban Caliban - Song Of Aeolus - Aubade - Second Bundle - Kayoo - Camdem Tandem - Nexus - One Over The Eight - Etika - Puffin - Huffin - The Nodder - Soft Space
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SOFT MACHINE - As If, 1991 (Elite) [CD]
[Compilation of tracks from Third to Six Album]
Tracks : As If - Drop - Slightly All The Time - Facelift - Chloe And The Pirates - Kings And Queens
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SOFT MACHINE - The Peel Sessions, 1991 (Strange Fruit) [2CD]
Elton Dean (as/saxello) - Mike Ratledge (o/elp/fl) - Hugh Hopper (b/as) - Robert Wyatt
(d/voc/p) - Phil Howard (d) - Lyn Dobson (ts/fl) - Mark Charig (cornet) - Nick Evans
(tb)
with: Brian Hopper (ss)
Rec : Jun 1969-Nov 1971 - Loc : London - Pr : John Walters
Tracks : Moon In June [10/06/69] - Esther's Nosejob [10/11/69] - Mousetrap/Noisette/Backwards/Mousetrap Reprise [10/11/69] - Slightly All The
Time/Out-Bloody-Rageous/Eamonn Andrews [4/05/70] - Facelift/Mousetrap/Backwards/Mousetrap Reprise [10/06/69] - Virtually [15/12/70] - Neo Caliban Grides [1/06/71] - Drop [15/11/71] - As If [15/11/71] - Dedicated To
You, But You Weren't Listening [1/06/71]
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SOFT MACHINE - BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert, 1993 (Windsong) [CD only]
Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Elton Dean (as/saxello/elp) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d) [line-up on all tracks except otherwise
stated]
with Heavy Friends : Mark Charig (cornet) - Paul Nieman (tb) - Phil Howard (d) - Ronnie Scott
(ts) - Roy Babbington (cb)
the Elton Dean Quintet : Elton Dean (as/saxello) - Mark Charig (cornet) - Mike Ratledge
(elp/o) - Neville Whitehead (cb) - Phil Howard (d)
Rec : Mar 1971 - Loc : London (Paris Theatre) - Pr : John Walters
Tracks : Blind Badger [performed by the Elton Dean Quintet] - Neo-Caliban Grides - Out-Bloody-Rageous
(excerpt) - Eamonn Andrews - All White - Kings & Queens - Teeth/Pigling Bland
[performed by Soft Machine & Heavy Friends]
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SOFT MACHINE - BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert, 1994 (Windsong) [CD only]
Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Karl Jenkins (ob/s/elp) - Hugh Hopper (b) - John Marshall (d)
Rec : Jul 1972 - Loc : London (Paris Theatre) - Pr : Jeff Griffin
Tracks : Fanfare - All White - Slightly All The Time - M.C. - Drop - Stumble - L.B.O. - As If - Riff
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SOFT MACHINE - Rubber Riff, 1995 (Voiceprint) [CD only]
Karl Jenkins (kb/fl/s) - John Etheridge (g) - Roy Babbington (b) - John Marshall
(d/pc) - Carol Barratt (kb)
Rec : Apr 1976 - Loc : London (DeWolfe studios, Soho) - Pr : Karl Jenkins
Tracks : Crunch - Pavan - Jombles - A Little Floating Music - Hi-Power - Little Miss B - Splot - Rubber Riff- Sam's Short Shuffle - Melina - City Steps - Gentle Turn - Porky - Travelogue
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SOFT MACHINE - Live In France, 1995 (One Way) [2CD]
Elton Dean (as/saxello/elp) - Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - John Marshall (d)
Rec : May 1972 - Loc : Olympia, Paris (France) - Pr : unk
Tracks : Plain Tiffs - All White - Slightly All The Time - Drop - M.C. - Out-Bloody-Rageous - Facelift - Aid Sevens - As If - L.B.O. - Pigling Bland - At Sixes
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SOFT MACHINE - Live At The Paradiso 1969, 1995 (Voiceprint) [CD]
Mike Ratledge (o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d/voc)
Rec : Mar 1969 - Loc : Paradiso, Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Pr : unk
Tracks : Hulloder - Dada Was Here - Thank You Pierrot Lunaire - Have You Ever Bean Green ? - Pataphysical Introduction - As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still -
Hibou, Anemone And Bear - Fire Engine Passing - Pig - Orange Skin Food - A Door Opens - 10.30 Returns To The Bedroom
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SOFT MACHINE - Spaced, 1996 (Cuneiform) [CD]
[Soundtrack recorded for "Spaced" 'multi-media' event by Peter Dockley, The Roundhouse 1969]
Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d)
with Brian Hopper (s)
Rec : May-Jun 1969 - Loc: London (Docklands) - Pr : Bob Woolford
Tracks: Spaced One - Spaced Two [extract from "Facelift"] - Spaced Three - Spaced Four
[includes re-worked extracts from "Why Are We Sleeping?" and "Hope for
Happiness"] - Spaced Five - Spaced Six ["Virtually 1" intro, "We Did It
Again" 'samples'] - Spaced Seven
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SOFT MACHINE - Virtually, 1997 (Cuneiform) [CD]
Elton Dean (as/saxello/elp) - Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d)
Rec : Mar 1971 - Loc: Bremen, Germany (Gondel Filmkunsttheater) - Pr : Peter Schulze
Tracks: Facelift - Virtually - Slightly All The Time - Fletcher's Blemish - Neo-Caliban Grides - Out-Bloody-Rageous - Eamonn Andrews - All White - Kings And Queens - Teeth - Pigling Bland
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SOFT MACHINE - Live 1970, 1998 (Voiceprint) [CD]
[This actually reissues "Live At The Proms" with 10 minutes of additional music from another performance]
Elton Dean (s) - Lyn Dobson (s) - Mike Ratledge (elp/o) - Hugh Hopper (b) - Robert Wyatt (d)
Rec: Aug 1970 [except 1/2, Feb 1970] - Loc: Royal Albert Hall, London [except 1/2,
Swansea] - Pr: unk
Tracks: Facelift (excerpt) - Moon in June (excerpt) - Out-Bloody-Rageous (edited) - Facelift - Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging - Pig - Orange Skin Food - A Door Opens & Closes - 10.30 Returns to the Bedroom - Pigling Bland - 10.30 Returns to the Bedroom
(reprise)
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