Live in France [Live]

Soft Machine | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 17, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: One Way Records Inc
• ASIN: B000002R7G
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #727,706 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Plain Tiffs

2. All White

3. Slightly All the Time

4. Drop

5. M.C.

6. Out-Bloody-Rageous

Disc: 2

1. Facelift

2. And Sevens

3. As If

4. LBO

5. Pigling Bland

6. At Sixes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very precious live recording..., November 1, 1998

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Denis ([e-mail]) (Sao Paulo, Brazil) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live in France (Audio CD)

Anyone who likes Soft machine has to have this album...although all recordings are mono it still has a great quality and captures the real essence of Soft Machine: improvise....Almost 2 hours of real music with Elton Dean on sax and Rhodes piano, Hugh Hopper on bass, Mike Ratledge on electric piano and organ and John Marshall on drums....

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Jazzy,spacey prog from Soft Machine, September 30, 2008

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Samuel Bulloch "progmansam" (Rock Creek,Oh) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live in France (Audio CD)

This is a double Cd recorded in early 1972.The line-up consists of Elton Dean,Mike Ratledge,John Marshall,and Hugh Hopper.The tracks are all instrumental and have a subdued,abstract feal to them.If your into jazzy prog this might appeal to you.The sound is quite good and if your a Soft Machine fan I would by this Cd,since now especially it is easy to find(and cheap!)At this time they would have been working on Soft Machine 6 but Dean would soon depart and be replaced by Karl Jenkins on keys and sax.The best live Soft Machine is from late 1971 when they had Phil Howard on drums which you can hear some live studio workd on "Soft Machine Turns On:Peel Sessions"It's also a double CD and probably their best work,easily a five star CD with BBC recordings from 1969-1971.Back to LIve in France,the best tune is Facelift,which has two keyboards,bass,and drums.The best live version of Facelift is on a CD called,Virtually recorded in Bremen in March 1971,must have for Machine fans.All in all this CD is worth getting for all fans of Soft Machine and for most of the genre of spacey jazz prog.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Solid Stuff, December 14, 2005

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Slave "8on2" (Las Vegas, Nevada United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live in France (Audio CD)

I have a problem with Elton Dean on this one... he seems disconnected from the rest of the band. He ends up leaving the band by the end of the month too. He wasnt the most consistant player either. Missing his parts on various tracks and such. Anyway... this is a mono recording but it's moot because the sound quality is most excellent. The performances are a little uninspired at times but overall a great document for this period. A bit of a rare recording I say so worth buy for Softs fans. I am a fan of the Wyatt era and this is a transition period to better stuff. In my opinion the next incarnation of the band made for more energy with Karl Jenkins. OH! Yah... sort of a sin to say from a Wyatt era fan.