Year: March 1971 (CD Jul 25, 2005)
Label: Hux Records (UK), HUX067
Style: Jazz Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Progressive RockCountry: Canterbury, England
Time: 54:50
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 361 Mb
Ноябрь 71-го - на пленке зафиксированы живые записи очень скоротечного состава с австралийским барабанщиком Филом Ховардом, которого пытался привести в группу саксофонист Элтон Дин. Есть ощущение, что таким образом Дин более всего приблизил группу к фри-джазу - SM зазвучали очень свободно, стихийно, но при этом более расслабленно, чем на пышущих жаром записях времен Third и Fourth. Такого рода расслабленные фри-джазовые устремления для меня в новинку. Очень интересно услышать здесь, как Ховард играет на композиции As If - заметно более вольная, спонтанная и даже хаотичная манера по сравнению с альбомной версией, на которой можно уже слышать вкрадчивую, но четкую поступь Джона Маршалла. Еще один интересный номер с этой сессии - 10-минутная Welcome To Frillsville, которая в этом же году вышла на сольнике Дина Just Us - с участием тех же Ховарда и Ратлиджа. Судя по всему, такой объем импровизации не устраивал Ратлиджа, и он решил направить музыку SM в более структурированное русло.
(the-slider04.livejournal.com/1136747.html?ysclid=lzbl9kibef673956461)
Released briefly on Windsong in the mid-'90s before going out of print and commanding large sums on eBay, the BBC recording of Soft Machine's March 11, 1971 Paris Theatre show in London, England was a one-off performance that most fans of the classic lineup—keyboardist Mike Ratledge, saxophonist Elton Dean, bassist Hugh Hopper, and drummer Robert Wyatt—could previously only dream of hearing. Thankfully Hux, which has been responsible for rescuing all kinds of BBC recordings from the archives and making them available to a wider audience, has not only reissued this important document, but also remastered it and added an additional track to boot.
Billed to "Soft Machine & Heavy Friends," the 54-minute set brings together Dean's Just Us—Dean, Ratledge, drummer Phil Howard (who would briefly end up a Soft Machine member for one side of Fifth), cornet player Mark Charig, and bassist Neville Whitehead—with double-bassist Roy Babbington (who would ultimately end up a full-fledged member of the group from Seven through Softs), trombonist Paul Nieman, and saxophonist Ronnie Scott. While Soft Machine had experimented with an expanded lineup in '70 around the time of Third, this collection of players from the British free jazz scene made possible some of the most open-ended music of their career. It also allowed them to perform material from Fourth and Fifth—specifically Ratledge's "Teeth" and Hopper's "Kings and Queens," two pieces that would never make it into the group's regular repertoire.
The set starts out with Just Us performing "Blind Badger," one of the more structured compositions from Dean's self-titled debut, although it ultimately heads for freer territory by the end. "Neo-Caliban Grides," another Dean piece from the same album, is performed this time by Soft Machine with Howard added. The double drum kit salvo of Wyatt and Howard, when combined with Hopper's aggressive fuzz bass, creates a chaotic wall of sound that's Soft Machine at their most intense and outre.
"Neo-Caliban Grides" segues into a 32-minute medley by Soft Machine that brings together more structured compositions—an excerpt from "Out Bloody Rageous," "Eamonn Andrews," "All White," "Kings and Queens," "Teeth," "Pigling Bland," and "10:30 Returns to the Bedroom." The first half of the medley features the core quartet, but by the time they hit Ratledge's complicated epic "Teeth," the group has expanded to a nonet, with solos by Scott and Nieman adding considerable interest to what may be the best augmented Soft Machine lineup ever.
(allaboutjazz.com/bbc-in-concert-1971-soft-machine-hux-records-review-by-john-kelman)
01. John Peel Introduction (01:02)
02. Blind Badger (10:07)
03. Neo-Caliban Grides (05:41)
04. Out Bloody Rageous / Eamonn Andrews / All White / Kings And Queens / Teeth / ... (31:58)
05. Slightly All The Time / Noisette (06:00)
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