Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song by Meze, Scott

Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song

Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised...
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Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song by Meze, Scott

Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song

$51.98

Soft Machine: Every Album, Every Song

$51.98
Author: Scott Meze
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Soft Machine are perceived as cold and forbidding. At their peak in the 1970s, they purposefully raised the hackles of pop journalists, the musical establishment, and even their own fans. Their music was designed to exclude all but the most devoted. Their line-up constantly churned, divesting themselves of every player that tried to make a human connection. Instead of the community of live performance, they favoured an abusive blast of ferocious noise that never ceased from the first note to the point you were driven out of the venue in shock. That all this was true only for a short period of their career and is certainly not the case for more recent incarnations is irrelevant if potential listeners are turned away before they've even dared to hear a note of their music. Do so, and an entirely different band emerges: one that is sly, spry, tuneful, trippy, and surprisingly welcoming, merging a glorious melange of prog rock, jazz fusion, and much more and capable of shifting on a unison beat from soul ballad to freeform skronk, from fuzz-driven pounding to aching minimalism. This book guides you through the maze of the band's works, revealing why every album is worthy of re-evaluation, why they're so influential, and why you should rush to assimilate as many of them as you can. It covers the live and studio material released by the parent group, all related projects with a 'Soft' in their name, and the essential extracurricular activities of every member from 1960 to the present day.



Author: Scott Meze
Publisher: Sonicbond Publishing
Published: 12/22/2023
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781789522716

About the Author
Scott Meze is a psychedelic music obsessive born in Britain but based in Tokyo, the music connoisseur's capital of the world. Soft Machine has been one of the abiding loves of his life ever since a friend played him a tape of Triple Echo while careening his thoroughly chemicalised brain through the hills of South Somerset on the back of a Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans. You don't ignore an education like that.

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