Eighties. Main source: Jazz-rock band Soft Heap was formed in January 1978 by four musicians, two of them being ex-members of Soft Machine: indeed, Hugh Hopper...
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Soft Machine are an English rock band from Canterbury, Kent. The band were formed in 1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and...
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Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap (/ˈɪmədʒən ˈhiːp/ IM-ə-jən HEEP; born 9 December 1977) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and entrepreneur...
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Dave MacRae. In 1978, former Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper and saxophonist Elton Dean formed the spin-off band Soft Heap, with former National Health...
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Elton Dean (category Soft Heap members)
Centipede: Septober Energy 1978: Soft Head: Rogue Element 1979: Soft Heap: Al Dente (live) 1979: Soft Heap: Soft Heap 1983: Soft Heap: A Veritable Centaur 1985:...
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Hugh Hopper (category Soft Heap members)
was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and other bands. Starting in 1963 as bassist with The Daevid Allen Trio, alongside...
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Alan Gowen (category Soft Heap members)
1978, Gowen formed Soft Heap with Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, and Pip Pyle. With Dave Sheen replacing Pyle, the band toured as Soft Head in the summer of...
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"Soft Heap - Record Collector Magazine". "Supergroup return to the stage". Sunderlandecho.com. Retrieved 1 January 2018. Simon, "Wanna be in my band?...
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The Soft Machine (also titled Volume One as a reissue) is the debut album by the British psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, released in 1968. It is the...
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John Greaves (musician) (section Bands)
Blegvad. He was also a member of progressive rock band National Health and jazz-rock supergroup Soft Heap, and has recorded several solo albums, including...
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" Soft Machine reference the Jimi Hendrix Experience, with whom they had toured the United States in the spring of 1968; as Hendrix's opening band they...
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Clean (song) (category Songs written by Imogen Heap)
Written and produced by Swift and the British musician Imogen Heap, the track is a steady soft rock, dream pop, and synth-folk ballad with an electronic production...
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Karl Jenkins (redirect from Karl Jenkins (band))
He joined the jazz-rock band Soft Machine in 1972 and became the group's lead songwriter in 1974. He continued to work with Soft Machine until 1984, but...
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Soft Machine are an English rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966. As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first...
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Softs is the ninth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1976. John Etheridge replaced Allan Holdsworth on guitar shortly after...
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Six is the sixth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine. Originally released in 1973 as a double LP, the first disc is a live album and the second...
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Third is a live and studio album by the English rock band Soft Machine, released as their third overall in June 1970 by CBS Records. It is a double album...
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Sparks is the fourth studio album by English singer Imogen Heap, released on 19 August 2014 through Megaphonic Records in the United Kingdom and through...
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Bundles (album) (category Soft Machine albums)
jazz-rock band Soft Machine, released in 1975. By the time of Bundles, most of Soft Machine's members had previously been part of the jazz-rock band Nucleus...
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studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1973. Bassist Roy Babbington, who had previously worked with the band as a session musician on...
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Mark Charig (category Soft Machine members)
Scoop (In and Out, 1983) Mike Osborne, Marcel's Muse (Ogun, 1977) Soft Heap, Soft Heap (Charly, 1979) Julie Tippetts, Sunset Glow (Utopia, 1975) Gary Windo...
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Land of Cockayne (album) (category Soft Machine albums)
jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1981. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty. It would be the last album released under the Soft Machine...
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Fourth (album) (redirect from Fourth (Soft Machine album))
Fourth is the fourth studio album by the rock band Soft Machine, released in 1971. The album is also titled Four or 4 in the USA. The numeral "4" is the...
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Family Band Cavetown Clean Bandit Isaac's Aircraft Katrina and the Waves Mallory Knox Olivia Newton-John Pink Floyd Camden N-dubz Canterbury Soft Machine...
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jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1972. In the US the album was identified on cover and label by number (5). Fifth was the first Soft Machine album...
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Mike Ratledge (category Soft Machine members)
In 1966, Ratledge's friends were forming a new band, Soft Machine, and asked him to join. The band included Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, and Kevin Ayers...
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Ackroyd found that the song ultimately left "genre confined to the scrap heap". The song is acoustic. Instrumentals—wrote Sodomsky—include "percussive...
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Pip Pyle (category Delivery (band) members)
the band's lyrics. Following Hatfield, Pyle joined Miller and Stewart in National Health as well as playing in other projects, including Soft Heap with...
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Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (category Soft Machine albums)
the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1978. It is their first album recorded entirely without any founding members of the band as official members...
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electronic band. They were called Silver Apples, and featured Simeon Coxe III singing over the otherwordly noise he coaxed out a pulsing heap of arcane...
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