Tracklist
A1 | Aubade | |
A2 | The Tale Of Taliesin | |
A3 | Ban-Ban Caliban | |
A4 | Song Of Aeolus | |
B1 | Out Of Season | |
B2 | Second Bundle | |
B3 | Kayoo | |
B4 | The Camden Tandem | |
B5 | Nexus | |
B6 | One Over The Eight | |
B7 | Etika |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Abbey Road Studios
- Made By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
- Printed By – Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Soft Machine Music Ltd.
- Copyright © – Soft Machine Publishing Company Limited
Credits
- Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar – John Etheridge
- Art Direction – Peter Shepherd (2)
- Bass – Roy Babbington
- Drums, Percussion – John Marshall
- Engineer – John Leckie
- Executive-Producer, Design Concept – Sean Murphy
- Lacquer Cut By – HTM*
- Lettering – Brian Palmer (2)
- Photography By – Guido Harari
- Piano, Electric Piano, Upright Piano [Pianette], Synthesizer [String, Minimoog], Orchestrated By – Karl Jenkins
- Producer – Soft Machine
- Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone – Alan Wakeman
- Tape Op – Pat Stapley
- Written-By – Karl Jenkins (tracks: A1 to B2, B5, B6)
Notes
Original first UK release with a laminated, glossy cover by Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
The only difference to Softs is the printing on label B
Track B6: sleeve credits Alan Wakeman as writer for this track, but vinyl label does not.
Additional number on sleeve: OC 062 · 97761
Recorded at Abbey Road Recording Studios, Spring 1976.
Photography - (Milano).
Artwork - Michael Mann Studios, London.
(P) 1976 Soft Machine Music Ltd.
All Titles (C) of Soft Machine Pub. Co. Ltd. MCPS.
Harvest.
EMI Records Ltd. Hayes, Middlesex, England.
Made and printed in Great Britain.
7607 TM Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
The only difference to Softs is the printing on label B
Track B6: sleeve credits Alan Wakeman as writer for this track, but vinyl label does not.
Additional number on sleeve: OC 062 · 97761
Recorded at Abbey Road Recording Studios, Spring 1976.
Photography - (Milano).
Artwork - Michael Mann Studios, London.
(P) 1976 Soft Machine Music Ltd.
All Titles (C) of Soft Machine Pub. Co. Ltd. MCPS.
Harvest.
EMI Records Ltd. Hayes, Middlesex, England.
Made and printed in Great Britain.
7607 TM Garrod & Lofthouse Ltd.
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Rights Society: MCPS
- Matrix / Runout (etched in runouts): HTM
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 1): SHSP 4056 A-1 GA
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 1): SHSP 4056 B-1 H
- Matrix / Runout (Runout A, stamped, variant 2): SHSP 4056 A-1 GL
- Matrix / Runout (Runout B, stamped, variant 2): SHSP 4056 B-3 M
- Barcode (Runout A, stamped, variant 3): SHSP 4056 A-1 GL 1
- Barcode (Runout B, stamped, variant 3): SHSP 4056 B-4 L 1
Other Versions (5 of 41)
View AllTitle (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Recently Edited | Softs (LP, Album, Stereo) | Atlantic | 50 290 | France | 1976 | ||
Recently Edited | Softs (LP, Album) | Harvest, EMI Electrola | 1C 062-97 761 | Germany | 1976 | ||
Softs (LP, Album, Stereo) | RCA, Neon (3) | NEN 00022 | Italy | 1976 | |||
Recently Edited | Softs (LP, Album) | Harvest | SHSP 4056 | Australia | 1976 | ||
New Submission | Softs (Cassette, Album) | Atlantic | 450290 | France | 1976 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Edited 7 years agoPersonaly i would describe this more of a insider album. At the time it was released complex music like this was only mostly heard by weed heads with open ears and fat hifi gear. Well,personaly i fell in love with it the first time i heard it and im exactly
still there now emotionaly 41 years later. - Way better than I expected it to be. True, the last true Soft Machine album was Bundles, because Mike Ratledge was still present, but by then he was the only original member left. With the next album, Softs, it's clear who is in control and that was Karl Jenkins. To me, post Robert Wyatt Soft Machine does not always get the most respect, many felt they became more of a generic fusion group, which I couldn't agree on. But without Mike Ratledge, it's basically the final nail on the coffin, at least with popular opinion. Yet when I hear it, I was simply amazed. With Allan Holdsworth out of the picture (he never sticks to one group or artist for long), they brought in John Etheridge, who really gave some super-fast guitar leads. Rick Wakeman's cousin Alan Wakeman provides sax, while Karl Jenkins sticks mainly to synths, but also saxes. I really love the approach they do here, at times the group is almost electronic, especially during those synth passages. There are some just unbelievably fast and intense passages white Etheridge playing guitar like there's no tomorrow, and same for John Marshall's drumming. I obviously didn't expect this to be another Third, and definitely not like the first two albums, and of course, you shouldn't expect the same as what the Soft Machine was doing 1968-70. I think if this was released as a Karl Jenkins solo album, rather than Soft Machine, I think it would get more respect. But the many progheads had jumped ship with Soft Machine long ago (about the time Robert Wyatt left), but fans of fusion certainly stayed on, and this is an (much better than I expected it to be) example.
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