Biography
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Soft Machine
1 follower
Origin :
Canterbury, England
Genres :
Progressive rock
Canterbury scene
Jazz fusion
Jazz rock
Free jazz
Proto-prog
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Labels :
ABC
Probe
Columbia
Harvest
EMI
Major League Productions (MLP)
Years active :
1966–1968, 1969–1984, 2015–present 1999-2002 (as Soft Ware) 2002–2004 (as Soft Works) 2004–2015 (as Soft Machine Legacy)
Members :
John Marshall
Roy Babbington
John Etheridge
Theo Travis
Past members :
Members
Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz fusion band from Canterbury, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. They were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. Though they achieved little commercial success, they are widely considered by critics to have been very influential in rock music, with AllMusic describing them as "one of the more influential bands of their era, and certainly one of the most influential underground ones."
