Soft Machine Drop

• Neo Caliban Grides
• All White
• Slightly All The Time
• Drop
• M.C.
• Out-Bloody-Rageous
• As If
• Dark Swing
• Intropigling
• Pigling Bland

Recorded live in 1971 during an interim phase of Soft Machine's career, Drop records the band's transition from progressive rock to free-form fusion. The full-length recording is from the German leg of the tour that year. Soft Machine, from Canterbury, England, had at this point lost drummer and vocalist Robert Wyatt to a solo career. In his place for this recording is Australian jazz drummer Phil Howard, who contributed a wild, unhinged style to the improvisation.

Abstract by Patrick Burns