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The Soft Machine (also titled "Volume One" as a reissue) is the debut album by the British jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1968. Founded in 1966, Soft Machine (one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene) recorded and released this studio album during their 1968 tour of the USA. It was produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson. The work on this album was one of the essential roots in progressive rock and jazz-fusion.

Формируйте собственную коллекцию записей The Soft Machine. From the jazzy and melodic first Suite of this marvelous release to the more complex side two, the second studio Album from the Soft Machine is nothing but pure imagination.

A wild, freewheeling, and ultimately successful attempt to merge psychedelia with jazz-rock, Soft Machine's debut ranges between lovingly performed oblique pop songs and deranged ensemble playing from drummer/vocalist Robert Wyatt, bassist Kevin Ayers and organist Mike Ratledge. With only one real break (at the end of side one), the songs merge into each other - not always smoothly, but always with a sense of flair that rescues any potential miscues. Wyatt takes most of the vocals, and proves himself a surprisingly evocative singer despite his lack of range.

Soft Machine thanks The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with whom they had just toured through the USA in 1968. As Jimi's opening band they were exposed to large crowds for the first time. The title of this song is a play on the soulful plaint in the song Are You Experienced?, "Have you ever been experienced?". The title of Side 2, "Esther's Nose Job", is derived from a chapter in Thomas Pynchon's novel, V. Track listing. Retrieved 25 July 2011. Bennett, G. Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous. London: SAF Publishing Lt. 1993, p. 163. ^ "Hugh Hopper - 1962-1972".