KARL JENKINS: RUBBER RIFF

I am not sure if the band knew that these tapes was going to be released under the Soft Machine monicker. According to the biography, several members was in the dark here during the recording.

Karl Jenkins needed to make some jingles and small pieces of music. So they recorded this tape in one day. I am not sure if Karl Jenkins passed the jingles test or if he got the BBC job. But this job interview does have a couple of good tunes. Unfortunate, the average song length is around 2.40. Only a couple of tunes have the faintest Soft Machine sound/ feeling. The rest is just small pieces of music which leaves my soul dead in the water. This is not Soft Machine as I want to remember them.

After the excellent Softs, it is a shame that this album was released. This collection of small pieces of music has no purpose and no life. I agree with the two stars because the musicians is doing the best they can with what they have. A couple of the tunes here are even good. That's all I can say about this socalled Soft Machine album.

2 stars

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