Fourth
by Soft Machine
- Type: Album
- Released: 28 February 1971
- Label: CBS
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 39:10
- Community rating: 4.16/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Roy Babbington, Karl Jenkins, Mike Ratledge, Phil Howard, Ray Warleigh, John Marshall, Fred T. Baker, Allan Holdsworth, Asaf Sirkis, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Signaling the complete abandonment of pop song structures and the final appearance of founding drummer Robert Wyatt, Soft Machine moved entirely into fiercely complex, purely instrumental jazz-rock. 'Fourth' is an incredibly technical, wonderfully progressive Canterbury Scene document, dominated by highly mysterious, deeply suspenseful avant-garde improvisations and a heavy reliance on wind instrumentation.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, complex, technical, progressive, improvisation, avant-garde
Tracklist
- Teeth (9:13)
- Kings And Queens (5:01)
- Fletcher's Blemish (4:36)
- Virtually Part 1 (5:16)
- Virtually Part 2 (7:06)
- Virtually Part 3 (4:33)
- Virtually Part 4 (3:22)
Credits
- Mike Ratledge - keyboards, flute
- Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals, keyboards, bass
- Hugh Hopper - bass, saxophone, guitar
- Elton Dean - saxophone, keyboards
- Phil Howard - drums
- Soft Machine - Member
- Asaf Sirkis - Member
- Fred T. Baker - Member
- Mike Ratledge - Member
- Kevin Ayers - Member
- Robert Wyatt - Member
- Elton Dean - Member
- Hugh Hopper - Member
- Karl Jenkins - Member
- Allan Holdsworth - Member
- John Marshall - Member
- Ray Warleigh - Member
- Roy Babbington - Member
- Phil Howard - Member