SOFT MACHINE Fourth 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS - BARELY PLAYED - NEAR MINT
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Oct 23, 2015 Sold Date
Oct 13, 2015 Start Date
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SOFT MACHINE Fourth 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS - BARELY PLAYED - NEAR MINT

SOFT MACHINE
Fourth

UK CBS (64280) FIRST PRESSING (February 1971)
THEIR FIRST TOTALLY INSTRUMENTAL ALBUM - MOVING TOWARDS MORE EXPERIMENTAL FREE JAZZ AND THE LAST TO FEATURE ROBERT WYATT ON DRUMS
GREAT COPY - SEEN LITTLE USE AND PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE SOLID ORANGE CBS LABELS
MATRIX: S-64280-A1 / S-64280-B1
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL TEXTURED AND EMBOSSED SLEEVE"Printed and made by the E. J. Day Group, London and Bedford"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL “CBS TAPES” ADVERTISING INNER SLEEVE

The Soft Machine's collective skill is hyper-complex and refined, as they are extremely literate in all fields of musical study.
Fourth is the band's free purging of all of that knowledge, woven into noisy, smoky structures of sound.
Their arcane rhythms have a stop-and-go mentality of their own that sounds incredibly fresh even though it is sonically steeped in soft and warm tones.
Obviously there is a lot of skilful playing going on, as the mix of free jazz, straight-ahead jazz, and Gong-like psychedelia coalesces.
Robert Wyatt's drumming is impeccable -- so perfect that it at times becomes an unnoticeable map upon which the band takes their instinctive direction.
Mike Ratledge's keys are warm throughout, maintaining an earthy quality that keeps its eye on the space between the ground and the heavens that the Soft Machine attempt to inhabit.
Elton Dean's saxophone work screams out the most inventive cadence, and since it's hardly rhythmic, it takes front and centre, spitting out a crazy language.

Side 1:
Teeth (9:12)
Kings And Queens (5:00)
Fletcher's Blemish (4:34)
Side 2:
Virtually Part 1 (5:17)
Virtually Part 2 (7:06)
Virtually Part 3 (4:31)
Virtually Part 4 (3:20)  

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - barely a spindle trace to be seen
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Unmarked in normal light both surfaces shine like-new with nothing but harmless wispy hairlines visible under bright light
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
This lightly played copy delivers beautifully clean sound with practically nothing to fault - an odd one-off tick noted but I did not clean this copy as it looks so immaculate so these will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins
SLEEVE: VERY GOOD
Always a challenging sleeve to find in decent condition this one has rub to the edges, spine and textured surfaces but still good and solid - no structural damage and better than most I have seen

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UK: FREE (2nd class standard)
UK: £9.00 (Royal Mail Special Delivery Next Day by 1pm)
EUROPE: Airmail: £14.00 (International Signed For delivery)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £17.00 (International Signed For delivery)

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