Soft Machine

band (keyboards, saxophone, bass, drums) · Canterbury

Formed in Canterbury in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, and Daevid Allen, the group is at the heart of the Canterbury scene. Starting from psychedelic rock, it evolved toward jazz-rock with "Volume Two," fully achieved on "Third" (1970) and "Fourth" (1971), then became purely instrumental.

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Styles

• Canterbury scene and British jazz-rock
• Fusion, jazz-rock, jazz-funk

Landmark tracks

• Slightly All the Time (1970)

Sources

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