Artist: Soft Machine
Album : Fourth
Year : 1971
Label : CBS, Sony
Genre : Jazz Rock, Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Total Size: 245 MB (+3%)
Artist: Soft Machine
Album : Fourth
Year : 1971
Label : CBS, Sony
Genre : Jazz Rock, Jazz Fusion, Free Jazz
Format: Flac/Cue/Log/Artwork
Total Size: 245 MB (+3%)
Tracklist
01 — Teeth
02 — Kings And Queens
03 — Fletcher’s Blemish
04 — Virtually Part 1
05 — Virtually Part 2
06 — Virtually Part 3
07 — Virtually Part 4
personnel :
Hugh Hopper – bass guitar
Mike Ratledge – (Lowrey) organ, (Wurlitzer) piano
Robert Wyatt – drums
Elton Dean – alto saxophone, saxello
with
Roy Babbington – double bass (1,3,4,6)
Mark Charig – cornet (2,3,4)
Nick Evans – trombone (1,2,4)
Jimmy Hastings – alto flute (6), bass clarinet (1,6)
Alan Skidmore – tenor saxophone (1,6)
Fourth is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine.
The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA; the numeral «4» is
the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out
title appears on the spine and label. This was the group’s first
all-instrumental album, although their previous album Third had
almost completed the band’s move in this direction toward
instrumental jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original
self-presentation as a psychedelic pop group, or progressive rock
group. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and
founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left to record a solo
album, The End of an Ear (in which he described himself on the
cover as an «out of work pop singer»), and then founded a new
group, Matching Mole, whose name was a pun on «Soft Machine» as
pronounced in French: «Machine Molle». Like the previous Soft
Machine album, this one uses session musicians who were not
regarded as full group members, but toured with the band for live
performances.
