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Overlooked Albums from the 1970s

This week's Baker's Dozen highlights 13 albums from the 1970s that often go unmentioned when discuss

No such thing as a naked lunch

Myriad times a day it is murdered by novice piano students, only to rise up again. Two especially f

The Sounds of Soft Machine

Soft Machine was the product of the same remarkable cultural shift that gave us electric Miles Davis

Gong – 2032

Gong was never a band to do things by the book. Throughout the seventies they released a succession

The mission: to warp your mind........

"New York's Alien Planetscapes plays a heavy style of space rock that is sometimes jazzy á la Gong

Biography Soft Machine

The Soft Machine was a pioneering English psychedelic, progressive rock, and jazz fusion band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene.[LINK: http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=633] Soft Machine biography at www.progarchives.com[LINK: http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=12] Canterbury Scene definition at www.progarchives.com Biography Beginnings: from psychedelic pioneers to post-Ayers jazz fusioneers The Soft Machine was formed in 1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ) plus, for the first few gigs only, American guitarist Larry Nowlin. Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had played in the Daevid Allen Trio, occasionally ac