Soft Machine
Rock
The next Soft Machine concert is scheduled for Friday 9 May 2025 at Signature Brew in London, United Kingdom. See all 9 upcoming concerts
![Listen to Drop (feat. Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper & Phil Howard) [2025 Remastered version] by Soft Machine](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/01/54/3f/01543f45-41b8-6f0b-832d-2781cd2955e3/198937235029_cover.jpg/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to Drop (feat. Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper & Phil Howard) [2025 Remastered version] by Soft Machine")
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About Soft Machine
Artist Biography
Soft Machine are one of the most innovative bands to come out of England in the ’60s. Besides being the most influential British jazz-rockers ever, they started an entire subgenre, the Canterbury sound. As Canterbury teens, various members played with future Gong mastermind Daevid Allen before forming rockers The Wilde Flowers. The first Soft Machine lineup in 1966 included Allen on guitar, singer/drummer Robert Wyatt, keyboardist Mike Ratledge, and singer/bassist Kevin Ayers, and bore a contemporary British rock sound. By their self-titled 1968 debut album, Allen was gone and the trio had developed a wildly original, highly experimental sound incorporating jazz, psychedelia, and proto-prog. Over the course of Volume Two and the classic Third they moved increasingly towards jazz-rock fusion. Throughout their career, Soft Machine had countless personnel changes, the biggest being Wyatt’s departure following 1971’s Fourth. Many musical giants passed through the band, including guitarists Andy Summers and Allan Holdsworth and bassist Hugh Hopper. By the last album of their initial run in 1981, no original members remained. Multiple offshoots followed; Soft Machine officially resumed activity in 2015, featuring mid-’70s members rather than the ’60s lineup.
Hometown
Canterbury, England
Genre
Rock
Members of Soft Machine
Soft Machine was formed on September 1966. Members of Soft Machine include, or have included, the following 19 members.
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