SOFT MACHINE 4 (Fourth) 1971 UK CBS 1st PRESS A1/B1 - NR Mint VINYL embossed
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Description
Soft Machine - 4 (fourth) 1971 CBS S64280 Jazz Progressive
Sleeve EX+ printed and made by the E.J Day Group, London and Bedford textured and embossed sleeve, really clean as can be seen in the photos. no splits, tears or bends. Some fading about half a cm along the right hand side. The originally very thin spine is slightly worn and most of the text has rubbed off but that is the case with these very thin CBS sleeves. You'll struggle to find a nicer copy.
Vinyl NM The labels are mint with no spindle marks. This record has hardly been played and has come from a collection of well looked after prog rock and jazz. The buyer will be very pleased.
Matrix Stamped S-64280-A1 and S-64280-B1
Fourth is a 1971 studio album by the Canterbury band Soft Machine. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA; the numeral "4" is the title as shown on the cover in all countries, but a written-out title appears on the spine and label. This was the group's first all-instrumental album, although their previous album Third had almost completed the band's move in this direction toward instrumental jazz, and a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic pop group, or progressive rock group. It was also the last of their albums to include drummer and founding member Robert Wyatt who afterwards left to record a solo album, The End of an Ear (in which he described himself on the cover as an "out of work pop singer"), and then founded a new group, Matching Mole, whose name was a pun on "Soft Machine" as pronounced in French: "Machine Molle".
Side one "Teeth" (Mike Ratledge) – 9:15 "Kings and Queens" (Hugh Hopper) – 5:02 "Fletcher's Blemish" (Elton Dean) – 4:35
Side two "Virtually Part 1" (Hopper) – 5:16 "Virtually Part 2" (Hopper) – 7:09 "Virtually Part 3" (Hopper) – 4:33 "Virtually Part 4" (Hopper) – 3:23
