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Soft Machine is a progressive rock artist from Canterbury, England formed in 1966. 26 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
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Fourth
1971 · 7 tracks
Land of Cockayne
1981
Fifth
1972
Third
1970
Six
1973
Seven
1973
The Soft Machine
1968
Softs
1976
Bundles
1975
Thirteen
2026
Live at the Baked Potato
2020
The Harvest Albums 1975-1978
2019
Tales of Taliesin: An Anthology 1975 - 1981
2011
Alive and Well - Recorded in Paris
2010
Fourth / Fifth
1999
Spaced
1996
Volumes One & Two
1989
Rubber Riff
1976
Volume Two
1969
Soft Machine were an English rock band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene, and helped pioneer the progressive rock genre. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are considered by Allmusic to be "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones." Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ) plus, for the first few gigs only, American guitarist Larry Nowlin. Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge. Wyatt, Ayers and Hopper had been founding members of the Wilde Flowers, later incarnations of which would include future members of another Canterbury band, Caravan. This first Soft Machine line-up became involved in the early UK underground, featuring prominently at the UFO Club, and subsequently other London clubs like the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, and recorded the gr…
