Daevid Allen - SOFT MACHINE First recordings 1967
Single by Soft Machine
A-side “Love Makes Sweet Music”
B-side "Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin'"
Released February 17, 1967
Recorded January 1967, Advision Studios
Label Polydor 56 151 (UK)
" Love Makes Sweet Music " was the first single released by the psychedelic rock group Soft Machine.
It is one of the first British psychedelic releases, predating Pink Floyd's "Arnold Layne" by a month.
The A-side is more pop-oriented, featuring Robert Wyatt on lead vocals. The other side, "Feelin’ Reelin Squeelin" is a disturbing tour de force with Kevin Ayers handling the lead vocal for the verses, while Wyatt sings the chorus; there is an elliptical series of strange noises and flute in the solo.
Kevin Ayers - guitar ("Love Makes Sweet Music"), bass ("Feelin..."), vocals
Daevid Allen - bass ("Love Makes Sweet Music"), AND guitar ("Feelin...")
Robert Wyatt - drums, vocals
Mike Ratledge - keyboards
1. Love Makes Sweet Music 0:06
Bass - Daevid Allen
Drums, Vocals - Robert Wyatt
Guitar - Kevin Ayers
Organ - Mike Ratledge
Producer - Chas Chandler
Written-By - Ayers
Track recorded January 1967 at Advision; released as a single 17/2/67. ℗ 1967 Polydor Records Ltd.
2. Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' 2:32
Guitar, Whistle, Backing Vocals - Daevid Allen
Bass, Vocals - Kevin Ayers
Drums, Vocals - Robert Wyatt
Piano, Organ - Mike Ratledge
Producer - Kim Fowley
Written-By - Ayers
Track recorded January 1967 at CBS; released as 'B' side of 'Love Makes Sweet Music' 17/2/67. ℗ 1967 Polydor Records Ltd.
3 to 11 traks from:
Soft Machine - Faces And Places Vol. 7
Label: BYG Records - 529.907, BYG Records - BYG 529 907
Series: Faces And Places - Vol. 7
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: France
Released: 1972
3. A1 That's How Much I Need You Now 5:20
4. A2 Save Yourself 7:51
5. A3 I Should've Known 10:36
6. A4 Jet-Propelled Photograph 18:17
7. B1 When I Don't Want You 20:53
8. B2 Memories 23:44
9. B3 You Don't Remember 26:44
10. B4 She's Gone 30:33
11. B5 I'd Rather Be With You 32:47
Lead Guitar - Daevid Allen
Bass, Vocals - Kevin Ayers
Drums, Vocals - Robert Wyatt
Piano, Organ - Mike Ratledge
Producer - Giorgio Gomelsky
Sleeve Notes - Giorgio Gomelsky
First UK edition of the demo sessions recorded in London, April 1967
Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ). Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally accompanied by Ratledge. Wyatt, Ayers and Hopper had been founding members of The Wilde Flowers, later incarnations of which would include future members of another Canterbury band, Caravan.
This first Soft Machine line-up became involved in the early UK underground, featuring prominently at the UFO Club, and subsequently other London clubs like the Speakeasy Club and Middle Earth. In April 1967 they recorded seven demo songs with producer Giorgio Gomelsky in De Lane Lea Studios that remained unreleased until 1971. They also played in the Netherlands, Germany and on the French Riviera. During July and August 1967, Gomelsky booked shows all along the Côte d'Azur with the band's most famous early gig taking place in the village square of Saint-Tropez. This led to an invitation to perform at producer Eddie Barclay's trendy "Nuit Psychédélique", performing a forty-minute rendering of "We Did It Again", singing the refrain over and over, achieving a trance-like quality. This made them instant darlings of the Parisian "in" crowd, resulting in invitations to appear on leading television shows and at the Paris Biennale in October 1967. Upon their return from their sojourn in France, Allen (an Australian) was denied re-entry to the United Kingdom, so the group continued as a trio, while he returned to Paris to form Gong.
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