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Rune 495/496/497-v
Elton Dean
– Alto sax, saxello
Lyn Dobson
– Soprano and tenor sax, flute, harmonica, vocals
Hugh Hopper
– Bass
Mike Ratledge
– Hohner Pianet, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ
Robert Wyatt
– Drums, vocals
"A love affair with France preserved on film - shot with tangible cinematic flair at Paris' photogenic Theatre De La Musique in March 1970, this superb quality live footage of the Softs at their freewheeling peak was originally broadcast on French Television...
Like the sounds fashioned onstage by Messrs Wyatt, Hopper, Ratledge, Dean and Dobson the visual style here is both highly fluid and refreshingly free of the stylistic cliches all too familiar from countless lookalikes in concert films... With the Softs flying high sans safety net and previewing material from their upcoming album Third, the audience in raptures, Robert Wyatt looking like the younger brother of Brian Jones and the sight of Orangina bottles decorating the top of the amps, this is a hugely evocative period piece made all the more vivid by the warm hues of the colour film stock. They sure don't make 'em like this any more." –
Grahame Bent, Record Collector
From their beginnings as a psychedelic rock band in 1966, sharing stages with Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, to being one of the originators of electric jazz/rock by early 1969, Britain’s
Soft Machine
were restlessly creative.
Facelift France and Holland
captures them at a pivotal moment in the first quarter of 1970 as a short-lived quintet, just before they recorded and released their breakthrough album Third.
As broadcast on the French TV programme Pop 2, the film of Soft Machine’s concert at Paris’ Théâtre de la Musique, which constitutes the main course of the present release, stands as an exceptional document of the band at, arguably, its artistic peak.
It is the earliest footage of the band to be commercially released and also the only video footage known to exist of the quintet line-up that was active from January to March 1970. The broadcast contains the only professionally-recorded performance of “Out-Bloody- Rageous” with Lyn Dobson on second sax and it also is the only professionally-recorded alternative performance by the quintet of “Facelift” (the original appearing as the opening track on Third).
Facelift France and Holland
marks the first official release of the entire show in both audio and video format. Footage of the concert was previously released in 2008 on DVD, but we have gone through and worked from the original as well as alternative footage to improve video quality as well as remove or lessen the audio soundtrack issues including fake applause and hard edits.
In addition to the March, 1970 material presented here on sides 1-3 and on the DVD in splendid stereo sound and looking better than it ever has before, side 4 presents a previously unreleased soundboard performance at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw from January 17, 1970.
Every Soft Machine fan needs this.
Cuneiform Records
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SOFT MACHINE "Out - Bloody - Rageous" from "Facelift France and Holland" (Cuneiform Records)
Format Type
NTSC
Region Coding
All Region
Label
Cuneiform
UPC
045775049519
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