Soft Machine - Grides

Soft Machine were one of England's original psychedelic bands, rising out of the same "UFO CLUB" London scene at the same time as Pink Floyd. They toured the USA with The Jimi Hendrix Experience two different times in 1968, playing over 60 shows as their opening act. The band broke up at the end of those Hendrix tours, but then reformed in early 1969 with the trio lineup of Mike Ratledge (organ), Hugh Hopper (bass) and Robert Wyatt (drums/vocal) in a more jazzified direction, while keeping their rock energy. Adding Elton Dean (saxes) in the fall of 1969, this is the lineup considered their ‘classic’ formation. They were one of the very first English jazz/rock band. This set is a  previously unreleased live concert on as well as the first-ever DVD release by Soft Machine, both featuring the classic lineup.

Soft Machine were one of the classic UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time, and their work continues to be name-checked by today’s experimentalists, such as Tortoise, Mushroom, Jim O’Rourke and others.

Grides features a previously unreleased live concert, recorded in Amsterdam on October 25, 1970 and a DVD from Soft Machine's final European tour with Robert Wyatt in 1971 and is a 20-minute set, professionally recorded by a multi-camera crew.