Esce in questi giorni un doppio CD di Soft Machine Legacy registrato a Parigi il 12 dicembre scorso. Lo pubblica inakustik con il titolo THE PARIS CONCERT - THE 40TH YEAR JUBILEE CELEBRATION, annunciandone una imminente versione anche su DVD.
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As a celestial phenomenon neighboring the musical big bang of the Sixties, The Soft Machine Legacy echoes the melodious growl of an era when rock'n'roll, blues, jazz, jazz-rock, funk, soul, pop were, as yet, nothing more than a magma of sounds challenging the musicians' ability to shape the course of music to come. In those days, Soft Machine symbolized the uncompromising dialog between those rock and jazz musicians who were determined to create a synthesis of the untamed energy of rock and the improvisational thrust of jazz.
Forty years later, The Soft Machine Legacy musicians have not forsaken their dreams. Immune to the leveling pressures of show biz, Hugh Hopper, John Marshall, John Etheridge and Elton Dean - who died shortly after this last reunion at the New Morning - still mesmerized their fans. Whether the cheeks be rosy, or the heads speckled with grey: freedom is ageless.
Recorded: December 12th 2005