Soft Machine : Third
Soft Machine : Third
TT:75'17 | Wavepack (EAC) + Cue + Log files | 350 MB
Release date: June 1970 | Recorded at London, England, April–May 1970
TT:75'17 | Wavepack (EAC) + Cue + Log files | 350 MB
Release date: June 1970 | Recorded at London, England, April–May 1970
When Kevin Ayers left the band, Soft Machine moved into deep jazz/rock - so deep that they rarely rocked. The mercurial Robert Wyatt became occasional vocalist, although they werenow effectively an instrumental unit of great originality. Third is generally regarded as their peak recording, a wandering foray using Elton Dean's soprano saxophone and Mike Ratledge's keyboards as the foundation to their sound. 'Moon In June' features Wyatt's frail, high-pitched voice, and is still talked about by cultists for the fact that he rarely sang the same words from one performance to another. Difficult music, but well worth the effort, especially after a vat of wine.
Soft Machine was the jazziest of England's progressive rock bands of the late-1960s, and this 1970 collection album was its expansive masterpiece. It was also one of the hippie era's ultimate jam records, with four songs on its two records. The Soft Machine that opened for Jimi Hendrix's 1968 tour was a trio, but Third brought in five more pieces, including horns and a violin. Keyboardist Mike Ratledge's nicely arranged "Slightly All the Time" featured strong horn lines and terrific percussion from drummer Robert Wyatt. Wyatt's wry way with a vocal and lyrics animate the more rock- like "Moon in June". (Wyatt, who later became paralysed below the waist in an accident, still releases well-regarded singer-songwriter records.) One suspects that this music was cooked up under the spell of trumpeter Miles Davis' seminal 1969 albums, In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. The vital result was a record that speaks of its time, but that's also aged remarkably well. - John Milward
Tracklisting:
1. Facelift
2. Slightly All The Time
3. Moon In June
4. Out Bloody Rageous
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009
EAC extraction logfile from 29. April 2010, 13:43
Soft Machine / Third
Used drive : _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : D:\Wavpack\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -w "Artist=%a" -w "Title=%t" -w "Album=%g" -w "Year=%y" -w "Track=%n" -w "Genre=%m" -h %s %d
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 18:45.50 | 32 | 84456
2 | 18:46.07 | 18:12.38 | 84457 | 166394
3 | 36:58.45 | 19:08.12 | 166395 | 252506
4 | 56:06.57 | 19:10.50 | 252507 | 338806
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename D:\Temp avax\Third\Soft Machine - Third.wav
Peak level 95.9 %
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC C207BD08
Copy CRC C207BD08
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 10) [3DA2E713]
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 10) [6A3D6791]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 9) [3A49211B]
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 9) [2212BC02]
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report
EAC extraction logfile from 29. April 2010, 13:43
Soft Machine / Third
Used drive : _NEC DVD_RW ND-3540A Adapter: 0 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : No
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000
Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : D:\Wavpack\wavpack.exe
Additional command line options : -w "Artist=%a" -w "Title=%t" -w "Album=%g" -w "Year=%y" -w "Track=%n" -w "Genre=%m" -h %s %d
TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.32 | 18:45.50 | 32 | 84456
2 | 18:46.07 | 18:12.38 | 84457 | 166394
3 | 36:58.45 | 19:08.12 | 166395 | 252506
4 | 56:06.57 | 19:10.50 | 252507 | 338806
Range status and errors
Selected range
Filename D:\Temp avax\Third\Soft Machine - Third.wav
Peak level 95.9 %
Range quality 99.9 %
Test CRC C207BD08
Copy CRC C207BD08
Copy OK
No errors occurred
AccurateRip summary
Track 1 accurately ripped (confidence 10) [3DA2E713]
Track 2 accurately ripped (confidence 10) [6A3D6791]
Track 3 accurately ripped (confidence 9) [3A49211B]
Track 4 accurately ripped (confidence 9) [2212BC02]
All tracks accurately ripped
End of status report