Soft Machine

Soft Machine – The Dew at Dawn / (Slightly) Slightly All the Time (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 09:27 minutes | 107 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © My Only Desire Records

Fabled jazz-rock group Soft Machine present this heartfelt tribute to one of the greats of British jazz – trumpeter Harry Beckett – covering his stunning “The Dew at Dawn” on this limited edition 7″ vinyl, with a cover of a classic Softs tune on the B side. This is the second 7″ in My Only Desire Records’ Brit Jazz 45s series, which sees some of their favourite contemporary jazz acts each making brand new studio recordings of two classic compositions from the golden era of ’60s and ’70s British jazz.

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Soft Machine – Live at the Baked Potato (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:19 minutes | 647 MB | Genre: Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dyad Records

In 2018 SOFT MACHINE released their first studio album in 37 years called Hidden Details. In support of this widely acclaimed and heralded album, John Etheridge (electric guitar), Roy Babbington (bass guitar), John Marshall (drums) and I (saxophones, flute, Fender Rhodes piano) toured the world during 2018 and 2019. A live album from this extensive tour, recorded at The Baked Potato, Los Angeles, USA on 1 February 2019, will be out as a deluxe 180 grams coloured vinyl only release on Tonefloat from 20 March 2020. The double album contains twelve tracks across three side with a specially etched side four. Order directly here, and for those that are not into the vinyl fetish, stay tuned, and who knows it might come out one day in HD Digital and CD format.

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Soft Machine – Hidden Details (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:43 minutes | 378 MB | Genre: Jazz Fusion, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dyad Records

Hidden Details is a new studio album of Soft Machine, recorded at the late great Jon Hiseman’s Temple Studio in Surrey, England, last December 2017, and it will be released in September 2018 on MoonJune Records (North America; on CD and HD Download), on John Etheridge’s Dyan Records (UK/Europe on CD, and iTunes), and on Vivid Records (Japan), exactly 50 years since the release of the band’s 1968 debut album The Soft Machine. Limited and highly collectible vinyl edition of only 200 coloured vinyl (orange, blue and tour edition orange & blue marbled) will be released on the Dutch label Tonefloat, on September 8, 2018.

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Soft Machine – Other Doors (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 56:27 minutes | 602 MB | Genre: Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dyad Records

Five years after the release of their last studio album, legendary UK musical institution, Soft Machine, return with a brand new CD/LP, Other Doors. Boasting new material and two numbers drawn from their extensive historical repertoire, Other Doors finds the band on their usual fiery form.

Featuring John Etheridge (guitars), Theo Travis, (saxes, flutes, Fender Rhodes piano, electronics), Fred Thelonious Baker (Fretless bass), John Marshall (drums), Other Doors also features two guest appearances from long-serving bassist Roy Babbington, who retired from the band in 2021.

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