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Soft Machine - Fourth (1971) {2013, Japanese Blu-Spec CD2, Limited Edition, Remastered}

Posted By: popsakov

Date: 6 Apr 2025 22:53:25

Soft Machine - Fourth (1971) {2013, Japanese Blu-Spec CD2, Limited Edition, Remastered}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ 275 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 129 Mb
Full Scans | 00:39:05 | RAR 5% Recovery
Jazz Rock / Fusion / Avant-Garde Jazz / Experimental / Canterbury Scene
Sony Records Int'l #SICP 30164

Fourth is the fourth studio album by the rock band Soft Machine, released in 1971. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA. 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 and progressive rock group. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left. Like the previous Soft Machine album, some tracks have the band augmented by additional musicians. These include Mark Charig and Nick Evans, who had been in the septet lineup of late 1969, and Roy Babbington, who would join the band in 1973.

Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study. Fourth is the band's free purging of all of that knowledge, woven into noisy, smoky structures of sound. Their arcane rhythms have a stop-and-go mentality of their own that sounds incredibly fresh even though it is sonically steeped in soft and warm tones. Obviously there is a lot of skillful playing going on, as the mix of free jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and Gong-like psychedelia coalesces into a skronky plateau. Robert Wyatt's drumming is impeccable – so perfect that it at times becomes an unnoticeable map upon which the bandmembers take their instinctive direction. Mike Ratledge's keys are warm throughout, maintaining an earthy quality that keeps its eye on the space between the ground and the heavens that Soft Machine attempt to inhabit. Elton Dean's saxophone work screams out the most inventive cadence, and since it's hardly rhythmic, it takes front and center, spitting out a crazy language. Certainly the band is the preface to a good portion of Chicago's post-rock output, as the Softs undoubtedly give a nod to Miles Davis' Bitches Brew experiments, which were going on in the U.S. at the same time.

~ Ken Taylor, All Music

Discogs

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Track List:

01. Teeth [9:13]
02. Kings And Queens [5:03]
03. Fletcher's Blemish [4:35]
04. Virtually Part 1 [5:15]
05. Virtually Part 2 [7:05]
06. Virtually Part 3 [4:32]
07. Virtually Part 4 [3:24]

EAC Log

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 24. September 2013, 0:46

Soft Machine / Fourth

Used drive : ATAPI iHAS124 B Adapter: 4 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
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Gap handling : Appended to previous track

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TOC of the extracted CD

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Track 1

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Track 2

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Track 7

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