First, let's get one thing out of the way. Facelift, another in Voiceprint's ongoing series of live Soft Machine performances, comes from an audience recording by bassist Hugh Hopper's brother Brian.

Soft Machine had been experimenting with tape loops and other experimental methods of altering its sound for some time. Hopper's episodic "Facelift" opens the disc, a blending of two live performances ...

A landmark double album, it stands as the arrival of Soft Machine proper boasting Robert Wyatt’s Moon In June, Hugh Hopper’s Facelift and Ratledge’s Slightly All The Time, and Out-Bloody ...

including Hopper's "Facelift", recorded live but reworked with loops in the studio. Soft Machine were moving further away from the Dadaism and pataphysics of their early days towards a more ...

Mike Ratledge, the keyboardist and a co-founder of English rock band Soft Machine, has died, the band’s guitarist John Etheridge confirmed. He was 81 years old. “Incredibly sad news that my ...

The last time Soft Machine played Phoenix, it was 1968 and the U.K. rockers were touring the States as the opening act for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. They played the Valley twice that year ...

And I’m thinking that, too!” Etheridge is now on a U.S. tour with the latest iteration of Soft Machine, which will perform at Dizzy’s in Bay Park on Thursday, June 20. The concert was moved ...