Soft Machine - Spaced

Title: Spaced Artist: Soft Machine Release Date: 10/23/1996 Label: Cuneiform Records Duration: 67:06 UPC: 045775009025 Genre: Rock Styles: Psychedelic, Experimental, Jazz-Rock, British Psychedelia, Canterbury Scene, Art Rock Moods: Complex, Eccentric, Enigmatic, Fiery, Witty, Intense, Irreverent, Quirky, Spacey, Trippy, Energetic, Hypnotic, Literate, Rousing, Rollicking, Sophisticated, Cerebral, Playful Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 3 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Spaced One
2. Spaced Two
3. Spaced Three
4. Spaced Four
5. Spaced Five
6. Spaced Six
7. Spaced Seven

Year Type Label Catalog # 1996 CD Cuneiform Records 90

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In 1969, Soft Machine were commissioned to provide music for a multimedia show at the Roundhouse in London. As Hugh Hopper writes in the liner notes, "they wanted a backing tape of suitably deranged and doomy sounds," and the group (augmented in parts by saxophonist Brian Hopper) delivered suitably abstract music that was high on improvisational challenge and low on melody. This 67-minute CD was compiled from music used in the show. It varies from off-kilter planetarium-type sounds (especially evident in Mike Ratledge's astral electric keyboards) to background-type instrumental jazz-rock to bordering-on-clamorous noisy improv (especially on the 32-minute "Spaced Four"). The sound quality is good, but this is, after all, work that was recorded as a supplement to a performance art event, with a different purpose in mind than home listening. As such, it has to be considered a marginal entry in the Soft Machine discography, of interest almost exclusively to major fans of the band. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

Name Credits Bob Woolford Liner Notes, Engineer, Photography Brian Hopper Liner Notes, Saxophone David Greenberger Design Hugh Hopper Bass, Liner Notes Mark Ellidge Photography Mike Ratledge Drums, Organ, Piano (Electric) Robert Wyatt Drums Steven Feigenbaum Digital Editing, Mastering, Director, Editing