Six

by Soft Machine

Six cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: February 1973
  • Label: Columbia
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:16:30
  • Community rating: 4.1/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Hugh Hopper, John Marshall, Mike Ratledge, Sean Murphy, Karl Jenkins

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This double album famously features one disc of live recordings from their 1972 tour and one disc of studio material. The live portion captures the band's pivot into more formal jazz-rock territories following the departure of Robert Wyatt, highlighting Karl Jenkins' intricate compositional style and the ensemble's virtuosic command of odd-meter rhythmic cycles.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, Avant Garde, instrumental, complex, technical, uncommon-time-signatures, improvisation, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Fanfare - Live (0:42)
  2. All White [Live] (4:48)
  3. Between (Live) (2:24)
  4. Riff (Live) (4:33)
  5. 37陆 (Live) (6:52)
  6. Gesolreut (Live) (6:16)
  7. E.P.V. (Live) (2:47)
  8. Lefty (Live) (5:01)
  9. Stumble (Live) (1:36)
  10. 5 From 13 (Live) (5:14)
  11. Riff II (Live) (1:27)
  12. The Soft Weed Factor (11:18)
  13. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album [For B.O] (5:59)
  14. Chloe And The Pirates (9:30)
  15. 1983 (7:55)

Credits

  • Hugh Hopper - bass guitar, composed by, effects [sound effects]
  • John Marshall - drums, percussion, written-by
  • Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, electric piano, grand piano, celesta [celeste], composed by
  • Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano, grand piano, celesta [celeste], composed by
  • Terry Pastor - painting

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