Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Soft Machine - 2003 - Kings of Canterbury

Tracklist:

CD1: From Live at the Paradiso (34:20)
1. Hulloder (0:25)
2. Dada Was Here (8:21)
3. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire (0:45)
4. Have You Ever Been Green? (0:57)
5. Pataphysical Introduction Pt II (1:00)
6. As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still (1:55)
7. Fire Engine Passing With Bells Clanging (2:17)
8. Hibou, Anemone And Bear (4:18)
9. Fire Engine (Reprise) (3:21)
10. Facelift (5:03)
11. Moon in June (5:58)

CD2: From Facelift (60:54)
1. Slightly All The Time (5:22)
2. Mousetrap (6:27)
3. Noisette (0:36)
4. Backwards (3:50)
5. Mousetrap (Reprise) (0:16)
6. Eamonn Andrews (12:10)
7. Esther's Nose Job (6:50)
8. Pigling Bland (3:52)
9. I Should've Known (4:46)
10. Esther's Nose Job (Reprise) (1:36)
11. Pig (2:57)
12. Orange Skin Food (0:15)
13. A Door Opens and Closes (1:18)
14. 10-30 Returns To The Bedroom (10:39)

This choice compilation of live material from 1969-70 is selected from three albums which emerged many years after their recording - 'Live at The Paradiso' (featuring the short-lived trio line-up of Wyatt, Hopper and Ratledge), 'Facelift' (recordeded at Croydon's Fairfield Halls in April 1970 ) & 'Live 1970'.

Line-up
- Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals
- Mike Ratledge - organ,electric piano
- Hugh Hopper - bass
- Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello-(disc 2)
- Lyn Dobson - sax (disc 1>10-11)

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