Soft Machine - Third (1970) {2013, Japanese Blu-Spec CD2, Limited Edition, Remastered}
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ Mb
Full Scans | 01:15:24 + 00:39:00 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Jazz Rock / Fusion / Experimental / Canterbury Scene
Sony Records Int'l #SICP 30162~3
2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) + Cue + m3u + Log ~ Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ Mb
Full Scans | 01:15:24 + 00:39:00 | RAR 5% Recovery
Progressive Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Jazz Rock / Fusion / Experimental / Canterbury Scene
Sony Records Int'l #SICP 30162~3
Third is a live and studio album by the English rock band Soft Machine, released as their third overall in June 1970 by CBS Records. It is a double album with a single composition on each of the four sides, and was the first of two albums recorded with a four-piece line-up of keyboardist Mike Ratledge, drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt, saxophonist Elton Dean, and bass guitarist Hugh Hopper. Third marks a shift in the group's sound from their psychedelic origins towards jazz rock and electronic music. "Facelift" is a live recording by the previous line-up of the band, a five-piece with Lyn Dobson on saxophone and flute alongside Ratledge, Wyatt, Hopper and Dean. The remaining tracks are studio recordings by the four-piece line-up, augmented by a few session musicians. Jimmy Hastings (brother of Pye Hastings from Caravan) makes substantial contributions on flute and clarinet on "Slightly All the Time", free-jazz violinist Rab Spall (then a bandmate of Wyatt's in the part-time ensemble Amazing Band) is heard on the coda to "Moon in June", and Nick Evans (who had been a member of Soft Machine during late 1969 when they spent a short time as a seven-piece band) makes brief appearances on trombone in "Slightly All the Time" and "Out-Bloody-Rageous".