SOFT MACHINE — Drop (review)

SOFT MACHINE — Drop album cover Live album · 2009 · Avant-Garde Jazz Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Mssr_Renard
This is actually a very good archival live album. A bit to loud and the bass is very thumping. But you can hear the duelling organs, saxophone and drums just fine.

The album seems like one long improvisational jam. Amidst the many, many archival live-albums it proves difficult to discover the really good ones. Well here is good one. The band plays a wild set bordering fusion and free jazz at times.

Of course the soundquality is not perfect, but this is an old recording (1971!) and I am very happy it survived and was released. When Wyatt left the band and before Marshall joined, Phil Howard played drums for five months, wich makes this album even more special.

This album should be in every Soft Machine collection (you can purchase it via Bandcamp) and in my opinion is even essential for any fusion and/or jazzrock collection.
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