Hope for happiness

 

For a french TV show titled "Ce soir on danse", a 1967's live of Soft Machine 

as I listened to them at Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris this same year!

 

At that time, Kevin Ayers was the bass player of the band with Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, & Mike Ratledge on keyboards.

Exciting memories !

 

 

 

 

this post was originaly published in 2012 

 

 

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1968 : we did it again!

On le refait encore !...?

 

A meeting in between Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers and François Bayle, french composer and manager of the famous GRM, on the ostinato "we did it again", from the song written by Kevin Ayers for the first Soft Machine LP.

In 1968, in ORTF studios (French National Radio), it was played at "Currents: Electronic Music From France", Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles, USA, 06/12/74

& released for L'Expérience Acoustique (1970-72) (Magison 1994 CD)

and more this year with The Soft Machine !
"Hope for happiness"

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Robert Wyatt sings John Cage

Robert Wyatt sings John Cage’s "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" for voice and piano (1942). 

ICI


via Mauro Graziani 

Why are we sleeping?

"Why are we sleeping?"
the well known song from the debut album of Soft Machine (1968), when Kevin Ayers was its bass player.
Here, later in 1970, live at the Tavern with the young Mike Oldfield and the great Lol Coxhill on saxophone...

Soft Machine - 1968

‪Souvenirs, souvenirs! 
1968 : "Ce Soir On Danse"  on french TV with Soft Machine, a great performance when the band was formed 
with just 3 members: Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge & the brilliant Kevin Ayers who was the pioneering founder of the group and made this memorable new sound that caught on quickly in the psychedelic 1960s!‬ As well Kevin Ayers was closely associated with the Canterbury Scene.

1. "A Certain Kind"
2. "Save Yourself"
3. "Priscilla"
4. "Lullabye Letter"
5. "Hope For Happiness"

Stay tuned

A real amazing song written by Anja Garbarek and singed by Robert Wyatt