Soft Machine's Other Doors is a compelling exploration into the progressive jazz-rock fusion realm, highlighting the band's evolution and continued dedication to innovative musical expression and ...

Between Cuneiform Records and the Voiceprint/Blueprint label, Soft Machine fans have been exposed to a diversity of archival live material. Some of it may be of a decidedly lo-fi quality, but the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What is it that burrows deep within the British psyche to male it near impossible for a person – especially a musician – to accept ...

Saying any one track is the best song of the 21st century is quite a statement. For Robert Wyatt of the jazz-rock outfit The Soft Machine, picking the best song was actually quite easy. And you ...

Canterbury prog legends Soft Machine have announced they will release their latest studio album, Thirteen, through Dyad Records on March 13. The band have also shared a video trailer for the new album ...

With Mike Ratledge raised by a school headmaster, he grew up listening to mostly classical music. To add to his growing love for music, he was also trained on the piano. Although surrounded by ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5, after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...

Mike Ratledge, one of the founding members of the legendary British psych-rock band Soft Machine, has died. As Louder points out, Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge shared the news in a Facebook ...