Six (Soft Machine album)

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Six
Studio album by Soft Machine
Released	1973
Recorded	1972
Genre	Jazz/Rock jazz fusion
Length	76:25
Label	Columbia
Producer	Soft Machine
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Soft Machine chronology
Five (1972) Six (1973) Seven (1973)

Six is a 1973 jazzy instrumental album, originally released as a double LP by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. It is their first album with Karl Jenkins (reeds, keyboards, from Ian Carr's Nucleus) who had replaced Elton Dean. The album is unusual in having the oboe as a featured instrument in a jazz-rock setting. The "B.O." to whom the track Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album is dedicated is Bill Oddie. Six won first place in the Melody Maker British Jazz Album of the Year award in 1973.

[edit] Track listing

Record 1 (live) 41:45 Side 1:

1. "Fanfare" (Jenkins) – 0:42
2. "All white" (Ratledge) – 4:46
3. "Between" (Jenkins, Ratledge) – 2:24
4. "Riff" (Jenkins) – 4:36
5. "37 1/2" (Ratledge) – 6:51

Side 2:

1. "Gesolreut" (Ratledge) – 6:17
2. "E.P.V." (Jenkins) – 2:47
3. "Lefty" (Hopper, Jenkins, Marshall) – 4:56
4. "Stumble" (Jenkins) – 1:42
5. "5 from 13 (for Phil Seamen with love & thanks)" (Marshall) – 5:15
6. "Riff II" (Jenkins) – 1:20

Record 2 (studio) 34:40 Side 3:

1. "The soft weed factor" (Jenkins) – 11:18
2. "Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album (for B.O.)" (Marshall) – 5:58

Side 4:

1. "Chloe and the Pirates" (Ratledge) – 9:30
2. "1983" (Hopper) – 7:54

[edit] Personnel

• Hugh Hopper - bass, sound effects on 1983
• Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone & soprano saxes, electric and grand pianos, celeste
• John Marshall - drums, percussion
• Mike Ratledge - organ, electric and grand pianos, celeste

Record 1: Recorded at the Dome, Brighton and at the Civic Hall, Guildford and mixed at Advision Studios, London during the months of October and November 1972.

Record 2: "1983" recorded and mixed at Advision Studios, London. All other compositions recorded and mixed at CBS Studios, London during the months of November and December 1972.

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