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Live in Paris [CD]

Soft Machine | Format: Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (14 Sep 2009)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Cuneiform
  • ASIN: B00022FWH2
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 181,047 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Pun intended.Best live Softs out there.A short lived version of group with John marshall,but really something to savour.Play it much?Slightly all the time!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By HJ
Format:Audio CD
After Robert Wyatt left there was an extremely short-lived version of Soft Machine: Ratledge-organ, Hopper-bass, Elton Dean-sax, John Marshall-drums. This line-up only featured on one half of the studio album "Fifth" & then Dean split (to be replaced by Karl Jenkins). As far as I know there are no live albums of this line-up apart from this Paris 72 concert so it should be of interest to any long-time fan of the band. You get two lengthy sets on 2 discs. Mono sound (a radio broadcast?) but good quality. The music is less intense than the old Wyatt quartet & looser than the slick Jenkins band which followed. This is probably the most jazzy Softs incarnation, with Elton Dean very much the focus & the music wandering off down all kinds of sidetracks, often into free improvisation territory. The Paris concert might lack the appeal of other live archival releases (Virtually, Noisette, Grides, Backwards) but it's worth getting, especially if you really like Elton Dean's distinctive sax playing.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Modern CLEAN mix! 8 May 2004
By Carl Johnson - Published on Amazon.com
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I can imagine the type of thoughts folks have when looking at this version of Live in Paris just released last week. "It doesn't have Wyatt on it"; Modern mixing destroys the authentic sound" and yada yada yada.

What folks often forget (as I did in the beginning) is that along about 1972, just before and during the release of TSM 6, the band was softening their overtly brash sound and opting for a less harsh and abrasive sound. I believe this versions takes it one step further and cleans up some of the technilogical meanderings from the 1972 master tape recordings of this concert set and makes it presentable if a very positive way!

The inclusion of John Marshall (The Bands prefered Drummer after Wyatt split), captures the band in a special moment in time. He is incredible!

Commercially, things were in a flux for the band until the release of TSM seven. This captures the band as their are moving and gathering steam in the public eye (In europe anyway). They adjusted to personnel changes positively as it was an almost continuous event back in 1972. The recording is capturing a rare moment in the Soft Machine time capsule. This is a collectors piece and if you are not really familar with the band, it just might be better to start with their legacy album TSM3. Then come back and check out Noisette and THEN buy this record/CD. Great spin!

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