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Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976. [1] Biography and career. Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of a Canterbury secondary modern school headmaster.
Mike Ratledge (* 6. Mai 1943 in Maidstone, Kent, England) ist ein Keyboarder und Komponist . Leben und Werk. Ratledge wurde bekannt als Musiker der englischen Artrock-Band Soft Machine, die als eine wichtige Vertreterin des Canterbury Sound gilt.
19. Mai 2023 · 01. SOFT MACHINE Facelift (Intro), ca. 3:00. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— MODERATION (overvoice nach 3:00) Soft Machine. Mike Ratledge. Diese drei Minuten führen an den Kern des Kults: das Intro des fast zwanzigminütigen Stückes „Facelift“, live mitgeschnitten im Januar 1970, .
8. Sept. 2023 · When Etheridge joined he recorded two albums: 1976’s Softs, the last to feature founder Mike Ratledge, and Alive & Well: Recorded In Paris, released in 1978. Although there was a fleeting reunion in the 1980s, Soft Machine were seemingly dead. Yet when the opportunity came to join forces with ex-Softs Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and ...
- Beginnings, Psychedelic, Jazz Fusion
- Post- Robert Wyatt Era
- Karl Jenkins Era Part #1
- Jenkins Era Part #2
- Soft Machine Legacy
- Soft Machine – The return.
Early Softs with Daevid Allen Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ). Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally ...
After differences over the group's musical direction, Wyatt left (or was fired from) the band in August 1971 and formed Matching Mole (a pun on machine molle, French for soft machine; also said at the time to have been taken from some stage lighting equipment "Matching Mole"). He was briefly replaced by Australian drummer Phil Howard. This line-up ...
Soft Machine with Allan Holdsworth In 1973, after the release of Six, Hopper left and was replaced by Roy Babbington, another former Nucleus member, who had already contributed with double bass on Fourth and Fifth and took up (6-string) electric bass successfully, while Karl Jenkins progressively took over the role of band-leader and main composer....
The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne (with Jack Bruce and, again, Allan Holdsworth, plus Ray Warleigh and Dick Morrissey on saxes and John Taylor on electric piano), and for a final series of dates at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the summer of 1984 ]featuring Jenkins and Marshall leading an ad hoc lineup of Et...
"Soft Machine Legacy" was launched in Turkey in Oct, 2004. The intriguing line-up of Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, John Etheridge and John Marshallwas a coalition of 4 long-time servers in different eras of the legendary group Soft Machine, but who had not played before as a unit. With the enthusiastic management of MoonJune in New York - the band quick...
Since 2016 the band formerly known as Soft Machine Legacy was from then on rightfully called ‘Soft Machine’.The Legacy tag, never in fact legally required, was officially dropped. The band toured the UK both in 2016 and 2017, and also performed in Italy, Macedonia, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2018 the band went into Jon Hiseman’s record...
20. Okt. 2019 · John Etheridge discusses democracy, creative and otherwise, in Soft Machine line-ups present and past, his love of Mike Ratledge's compositions and his acoustic guitar piece "Etika" which he...
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14. Juli 2023 · Mike Ratledge’s 37½, from Six (CBS, 1973) is delivered at a frighteningly fast pace, at least double the speed of its original studio version. The majority of the tracks on the album are gleaned from Six and a couple from Seven but there’s a preview of Hazard Profile from their next album Bundles (Harvest, 1974).
