Fourth (Soft Machine album)

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Fourth
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Studio album by Soft Machine
Released 1971
Recorded Autumn, 1970 at Olympic Studios, London
Genre Jazz
Length 39:13
Label Columbia
Producer(s) Soft Machine
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Soft Machine chronology
Third
(1970)		 Fourth
(1971)		 Fifth
(1972)


Fourth is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine. At the time the band's music was moving away from their original brand of psychedelic and progressive rock towards jazz fusion; Fourth is the first of their purely instrumental albums. This was the last of their album's to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left the band to found Matching Mole.

In 1999, Soft Machine albums Fourth and Fifth were re-released together on one CD.

[edit] Track listing

LP Side one

1. "Teeth" (Mike Ratledge) 9:15
2. "Kings and queens" (Hugh Hopper) 5:02
3. "Fletcher's blemish" (Elton Dean) – 4:35

LP Side two

4. "Virtually part 1" (Hugh Hopper) – 5:16
5. "Virtually part 2" (Hugh Hopper) – 7:09
6. "Virtually part 3" (Hugh Hopper) – 4:33
7. "Virtually part 4" (Hugh Hopper) – 3:23

[edit] Personnel

Soft Machine
Daevid Allen | Kevin Ayers | Elton Dean | Hugh Hopper | Mike Ratledge | Robert Wyatt
Roy Babbington | John Etheridge | Karl Jenkins | John Marshall
Steve Cook | Marc Charig | Lyn Dobson | Nick Evans | Jimmy Hastings | Allan Holdsworth | Brian Hopper | Ric Sanders | Alan Skidmore | Rab Spall | Andy Summers | Alan Wakeman
Discography
Regular albums:
The Soft Machine (1968) | Volume Two (1969) | Third (1970) | Fourth (1971)
Five (1972) | Six (1973) | Seven (1973) | Bundles (1975) | Softs (1976) | Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978)
Related articles
Canterbury sound - Jazz fusion - Wilde Flowers
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