Soft Machine – Live at the Proms 1970 [USED LP] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Eventually settling into a hypnotic

Eventually settling into a hypnotic bass and drum groove over which Haino unleashes some almost Ray Russell-eque skittering atonal screech

There's an austerity and discipline to these works that evokes Eddie Prevost’s materialist explorations with AMM and other ensembles

It is an album of cosmic echoes

Mr Kudo and the group were invited to tour Europe to celebrate 20 years of the project Le Ton Mité

Wooley and Yarn/Wire

Soft Machine – Live at the Proms 1970 [USED LP] Extreme / Noise / Free Sound Eventually settling into a hypnoticthe 'third' era lineup performing at the royal albert hall in '70 opening for the bbc symphony orchestra. the machine doing as it does; killer. Reckless Records, 1988