Artist : Soft Machine
Album : Third
Label : Sony BMG
Genre : Jazz
Bitrate : 199 kbps avg
Source : CD (LP)
Playtime : 01:54:17 (171 MB)
Rls date : 2007-02-22
Store date : 2007-02-26
[Track List]
Disc 1/2
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1. Facelift (live) 18:48
2. Slightly All The Time 18:13
3. Moon In June 19:08
4. Out-Bloody-Rageous 19:11
Disc 2/2
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1. Out-Bloody-Rageous 11:57
2. Facelift 11:22
3. Esther's Nose Job 15:38
Third is a 1970 double LP by Soft Machine, with each side of the original vinyl
consisting of a single long composition. Its music
explores the emerging fusion jazz of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches
Brew, which was released in the same year. Third is
considered by many to be the seminal recording to emerge from the Canterbury
Scene, featuring incredible interplay between the
band's members, led by keyboardist Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean on woodwinds,
Robert Wyatt on drums and Hugh Hopper on bass. The
song "Slighty All The Time" was used as the background for the syndicated
"Realities" news program distributed by many
1970s-era "underground" radio stations. The album remained in print in the
Columbia U.S. catalog throughout the 1970s and into
the '80s despite its unusual format, based largely on word of mouth reviews.
2007 issued digitally remastered edition of the 1970 classic third album by the
British jazz-rock fusion band that revolved around
core members Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt. Their
music explored the emerging fusion jazz that was
propelled by the release of Miles Davis' "Bitches Brew", released the same year.
"Third" is widely regarded as vanguard of the
Canterbury music scene thanks to the chemistry of the four primary players. This
reissue presents all four original album tracks (each
originally occupied an entire LP side!) along with a bonus disc with a live BBC
Session recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall.