LIVE IN FRANCE (PARIS)

The Soft Machine

Canterbury Scene

3.32 | 28 ratings

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toroddfuglesteg

A two CDs set from a gig in Paris, thankfully dug up and released by one of the better labels around.

This is from their hard-core jazz era with a lot of improvisations over the song structures. The sound is pretty bad with the woodwinds instruments from Elton Dean pushed in the background while the bass and the organs is in the foreground. Hence, my enthusiasm for this album nosedives a lot. But the material is still very good. I have to admit I am a fan of this band and the material here album is something I really enjoy. The bad sound is a downer though and cannot be ignored when I am trying to advice potential buyers of Soft Machine live albums of which albums they should buy and whose to ignore. This is a borderline between buy and ignore. Hence my three stars.

3 stars

toroddfuglesteg | 3/5 | 2010-6-30

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