SOFT MACHINE
1971-02-28 - Oslo, NO
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1971-02-28 - Hovikodden (near Oslo), NO -  Henie Onstad Art Centre - aud (79m)
Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean

1) Facelift > Virtually > Slightly All The Time > Fletcher's Blemish (37:02)
2) Neo-Caliban Grides > Out-Bloody-Rageous > Eamonn Andrews
> All White > Kings And Queens > Teeth > Pigling Bland (42:52) *

* "Pigling Bland": fades out.

Source: 2nd gen aud master > trade cd-r > wav > trader's little helper, level 8 > flac.
[Soft_Machine-Oslo-1971-Remaster] Shared as torrent on Dime (unsigned info).
Trader's Little Helper detects possibly lossy source.
"
This concert marks Soft Machine's first collaboration with Mark Boyle's Sensual Laboratory in several years".
Show listed on Calyx (
Soft Machine's first collaboration with Mark Boyle's Sensual Laboratory in several years).
Stereo audience recording.

"Quality: A++ performance, A recording quality".

"This had lain forgotten on my HD because of the overwhelming bass boom and phasing on part
1 and very dim sounding part 2, enough to make me think they were different recordings.
However after the Roundhouse 1971 remaster sounded so good, I gave this a go (details
above) and was delighted to find that the improvement is huge. It is now an absolute jewel.
Performance is fantastic with Hugh Hopper really turning up the fuzz, more Ratledge organ
than often is the case, echoplexes truned up full and probably eyeballs bulging (to quote
liner notes from one of their official release) !!
IMHO, this is the best Soft Machine performance I've ever hear, although I could weep for
what might have been if this great group had carried on for just a few months more (just
check out also the Fletchers Blemish track on the BBC 1967-71 release to see what I mean)
but this is all we have and must be thankful for that.
I do hope you share my enthusiasm and...

...Enjoy this fantastic performance !!".

"Supplied as two disks, but both fit on one CDR-80".


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