On Backwards, the legendary British avant-progressive icons and foundational pioneers of the Canterbury Scene, Soft Machine, present a towering, historically volcanic, and masterfully panoramic archival studio and live document. Released by the specialized avant-progressive vanguard imprint Cuneiform Records, this monumental milestone unearths crucial, legendary tracking sessions and broadcast captures spanning 1969 to 1970. Spanning nearly 73 minutes of historic spatial design, this document preserves the band at its absolute creative zenith, highlighting the monumental evolutionary leap from psychedelic whimsey to complex, horn-driven jazz-rock fusion geometry. The landscape operates with an intense, beautifully volatile, and heavily syncopated kinetic energy, firing off massive landmarks like the legendary, raw 1969 studio demo of Robert Wyatt’s masterpiece Moon in June, and blistering, sprawling live-in-the-studio iterations of Facelift and Esther's Nose Job. Driven by Wyatt's iconic vocal poetry and polyrhythmic drum patterns, Mike Ratledge's fiercely distorted Lowrey organ architectures, Hugh Hopper's legendary fuzz-bass foundations, and the stinging brass extensions of Elton Dean and Lyn Dobson, this pristine historical archive remains an indispensable masterpiece for serious Canterbury purists and progressive rock collectors worldwide.

On Middle Earth Masters, the legendary British avant-progressive icons and foundational pioneers of the Canterbury Scene, Soft Machine, unveil a towering, historically volcanic, and masterfully panoramic archival live document. Released in 2006 by the specialized avant-progressive vanguard imprint Cuneiform Records, this monumental milestone unearths rare, legendary performance tapes captured primarily at London’s iconic underground Middle Earth Club in 1967 and 1968. Spanning over 64 minutes of historic spatial design, this crucial power-trio document operates with an intense, beautifully volatile, and heavily syncopated kinetic energy. The trio shatters traditional pop and rock boundaries with absolute uninhibited improvisational velocity, showcasing the band's transition from raw, whimsical psychedelia to long-form, fuzz-drenched jazz-rock geometry. Firing off massive highlights like Kevin Ayers's hypnotic, sprawling classic Why Are We Sleeping?, the proto-minimalist loop intensity of We Did It Again, and the winding, intricate organ-led movements of I Should've Known, this pristine historical archive remains an indispensable masterpiece for serious Canterbury purists and progressive rock collectors worldwide.