FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Dear progressive rock and jazz-rock-fusion fans

This to announce MoonJune's lates release:

SOFT MACHINE "Floating World Live"
Recorded live January 29, 1975 by Radio Bremen
http://moonjunerecords.com/floatingworld.html (audio clips available)
http://www.moonjunerecords.com/

USA street date: March 21, 2006 (MoonJune Records)
Japan street date: March 22, 2006 (Strange Days Records/Universal Records Japan)

ALLAN HOLDSWORTH electric guitar, violin
KARL JENKINS ac. & el. piano, oboe, soprano sax, recorder
MIKE RATLEDGE Lowrey organ, electric piano, synthesizers
ROY BABBINGTON electric bass
JOHN MARSHALL drums

1. The Floating World 4:52
2. Bundles 4:53
3. Land Of The Bag Snake 5:07
4. Ealing Comedy 6:08
5. The Man Who Waved At Trains 4:56
6. Peff 6:29
7. North Point 4:05
8. Hazard Profile, Part One 4:49
9. J.S.M. 10:13
10. Riff III 8:42
11. Song Of Aelous 4:16
12. Endgame 6:39
13. Penny Hitch (Coda) 2:40


This CD marks the first release of a live performance by Soft Machine's Bundles
line-up
featuring Allan Holdsworth on guitar. This concert, recorded for Radio Bremen in
January
1975, consists of most of the Bundles material, which hadn't yet come out
although in the
can since the previous summer, plus a couple of band improvs and solo showcases
for
Mike Ratledge, Roy Babbington and John Marshall. That era of Soft Machine was
unique in
that, taking the band's long established tradition of continuous change to an
extreme,
when Holdsworth joined all the previous repertoire was abandoned, literally at
once, in
favour of brand new material written by Karl Jenkins and, to a lesser extent,
Mike Ratledge.
This made the new Soft Machine even more difficult to compare with its
predecessors, and
gave the band a well-deserved chance for critical reappraisal. At long last,
reviewers
stopped bemoaning the loss of the band's father figures to judge the new line-up
on its
own merits. As a consequence, positive reviews again began to pour in, and
1974-75 was
to prove Soft Machine's second golden age in many respects.

"By the release of Bundles in 1975, Mike Ratledge was Soft Machine's only
original
member. With relative newcomer Karl Jenkins‚ with his increasingly dominant
compositional role, there was little tying them to the classic line-up that
released albums
like Third. But it was guitarist Allan Holdsworth, appearing virtually out of
nowhere with a
revolutionary melodic and harmonic approach--who placed this Softs incarnation
on equal
footing with earlier line-ups. Recorded for German Radio Bremen months before
Bundles
was released, Floating World Live is a powerful live performance that, despite
Holdsworth's
dominating presence, provides plenty of space for all - proof that they were far
looser and
interactive in concert than Bundles suggests. An exciting 75-minute set,
Floating World
Live demonstrates just how well-formed Holdsworth was this early in his career,
and
proves that critics writing this incarnation off as nothing more than riff-heavy
fusion
couldn‚t be more mistaken. " JOHN KELMAN (Senior Editor AllAboutJazz.com)

Classic Allan Holdsworth, in one of his best ever performances ever, monster
bass and
fuzz-bass lines by Roy Babbington, psycho analog synths and an incredible
polyrhythmic
drumming by John Marshall! Think of a jazz-rock jam band excuting killer riffs,
atop
attractive Canterbury-style overtones...Soft Machine fans will rejoice!
GLENN ASTARITA (contributor to Downbeat, Radio Direct X, JazzReview.com & E-Jazz
Times)