(Canterbury link: Geoff Richardson played Viola in both PCO and Caravan) For those who like the Penguin Cafe orchestra, may I recommend this new tribute album...
Hello Agree with you, nice interview in record Collector! I finally got hold of a copy in Norway too. But the photos do look old? No photographer mentioned...
From a Voiceprint newsletter: "Previously Unreleased Soft Machine Archive Footage Released Following exhaustive negotiations with a French Television Network,...
Well... This certainly caught my attention! Aymeric, anyway they can enlist you as the person who does the liner notes? That would be the icing on the cake! ...
Thanks for the information Allan. I really enjoy their music. I saw them recently at the Union Chapel in London - a great evening! Some musicians with...
I should point out that there are actually 12 tracks -I forgot to turn over the page in the booklet! Glad the London show was good - I saw they were on, but...
... Another Canterbury link : John Greaves was a member of the PCO (not for a long time I guess). A collaboration that is sadly undocumented on record. [Yeah,...
... No new material Julius. They did 3 nights in December at the Union Chapel in Islington to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of Simon Jeffes. I...
... Certainly didn't know about John Greaves! Thought of another (slightly dubious connection) Steve Nye played piano with PCO quite often and he also worked...
One more "oblique" connection is the collaboration between Robert Wyatt and Ryuichi Sakamoto (Track 5: Paul's dance) on his "Beauty" album: RW vocals on "We...
Hi Svenn, The new edition of book is definitely published as I have a copy but I guess the hiatus you are suffering is caused by the book's distributor and...
Hi Everyone, I have been working very closely with Chris Fournier on some of his amazing prog-rock compositions! The name of our project, and the upcoming...
Just learned that the wonderful Hadouk Trio is playing the Knitting Factory in New York this Saturday, January 12th. Some kind of showcase, so I don't know if...
Video I haven't seen yet!! Anybody know where this is from,or if their's more?? <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv0eN2s56cM> I really think Kevin Ayers is also...
Thanks very much. I had no idea. I don't remember seeing this on the Calyx concert listings or anywhere else for that matter. I would have been very unhappy to...
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I have been trying to find this in the U.S but my Google search hasn't turned up anything yet. I couldn't find it on the GAS store either. Does anyone have any...
Thanks - this was fun -I've never seen Ratledge with his hair like that before! Also on there is a complete version of Moon in June by Invisipops (no, I don't...
... Invisibops are Fabio Golfetti, Gabriel Costa, and Fred Barley from Sao Paolo -- they were also the musicians who joined Daevid and Josh and me in Brazil...
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDEYcl-GaGM&feature=related> This was reasonably impressive. I would never have thought to replace the keyboards with guitar......
Hi all, A recent All About Jazz news item that may be of interest to some of you. The site is looking for wiki-style collaborative help in certain areas, in...
... Yes you would! Soft Machine keyboards replaced by guitar is one of the subjects of University of Errors' fine Jet Propelled Photographs album (Cuneiform). ...
The February 2008 issue of Downbeat includes a four-star review of Comicopera, reproduced below in its fairly brief entirety. The review is significant in that...
... Keep in mind that they play this stuff for fun and love and are involved in many other projects (Fred in particular) -- I first saw this Moon In June...
Hi Stuart, Very interesting. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I hadn't realised that there was a family connection here. Good to see Kevin's name...
Hi all, Not Canterbury, but certainly of interest to those into Magma, Univers Zero, etc., I was fortunate enough to get a hold of a number of Le Triton titles...