Soft Machine

“He's not just a roaring, swinging jazz saxophonist, he's actually got the prog credentials as well!” shouts John Etheridge introducing bandmate and reeds player Theo Travis, who has played with Gong and King Crimson, to an audience eager to experience, or re-live, the legend.

But this… is a pop group!”You’d be hard-pressed to find the pop in Soft Machine’s complex noodlings, but you could pass them off as jazz.

The story of Soft Machine is complex, involving multiple incarnations. Formed in 1966 by Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen and Mike Ratledge, the band was a centripetal force on the Canterbury scene.

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