Soft Machine

Soft Machine, the cult prog rock formation from Canterbury, are celebrating their most creative period with a huge 17-disc set titled "Slightly All The Time Recordings 1970–1974", due out October 30 via Sony Music. The set, which packs…

Label: Dyad Records (CD) / Tonefloat (vinyl)Release date: 13 March 2026Production: Soft MachineLength: 64.46 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Canterbury SceneRating: 9.0/10 »Thirteen« is the band's thirteenth studio album, and it also…

Soft Machine, the legendary progressive rock outfit from the United Kingdom, are back on 13 March 2026 with a new studio album, “Thirteen”. The album single Green Books is out now, and you can stream it in full below. There's also a…

Label: Dyad RecordsRelease date: June 30, 2023Production: Soft MachineAlbum length: 56.21 min.Genre: Progressive Rock / Canterbury Scene / Jazz Rock FusionRating: 8.5/10 Soft Machine, the cult figureheads of the so-called Canterbury…

“Land of Cockayne” was in many ways a product of its time and a reflection of where the eighties jazz fusion scene was at. Even though it's not without its charms, it's light-years away from the classic Soft Machine approach to jazz fusion…

Listening to "Alive & Well," you'd never guess Soft Machine were on the verge of (a temporary) split, because even while playing brand-new material, the band still sounds like a well-oiled machine.

"Softs" was a thoroughly solid effort from the Jenkins-era Soft Machine, but a few less inspired ideas kept it from making the leap into their canon of classics. Still, they weathered Ratledge's departure pretty well.

Soft Machine are back! Along with Gryphon's new record, »Hidden Details« is another big surprise of 2018: a hugely successful comeback studio album from a legendary prog rock band we thought would never set foot in a studio again

Allan Holdsworth is the main reason "Bundles" is now counted among the classics of English jazz rock fusion.

»Seven«, the last Soft Machine album with a number in its title, was a noticeably more accessible effort than its predecessors, one with which the jazz fusion champions, emboldened by the success of »Six«, set out to reach a somewhat wider…

With »Six«, which pulled them back from the brink of ever-deeper obscurity and gave them a fair bit of stability, Soft Machine delivered one of their better efforts. The live and studio halves are equal in quality, and thanks to the…

The mid-session drummer swap turned "Fifth" into an odd sonic hybrid within Soft Machine's colorful discography, one that can't make up its mind between drowsy free-jazz forms and the more energetic jazz fusion wit that takes over in the…

"Fourth," which set the bar pretty high for any comparable release to follow, still ranks among the gems of English jazz fusion today.

"Third," a jazz fusion and Canterbury scene classic that defined the classic Soft Machine sound, is the pivotal record in this cult band's incredibly colorful discography, and they'd go on to live through a few more interesting, vividly…

With the transitional »Volume Two«, Soft Machine began smartly moving out of the world of experimental psychedelia and onto the improvisational plains of jazz fusion, which would soon become their trademark.

»The Soft Machine« is a pioneering work and one of the most important albums of the Canterbury scene, and thus of early progressive rock. Even so, amid plenty of already top-notch improvisational freakouts, it was still full of youthful…

Venue: Teatro Palamostre, Udine, ItalyConcert date: 24.06.2006Attendance: 350Ticket price: €15.00 Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble: 21.05 There were fewer people than the day before at Fripp, and the show started almost…