Volume Two (Soft Machine album)

Volume Two (Soft Machine album)

Album infobox
Name = Volume Two
Type = Album
Artist = The Soft Machine
Background = Orange
Released = April 1969
Recorded = February-March 1969 at Olympic Sound, London
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 33:36
Label = Probe SPB 1002
Producer = The Soft Machine, executive: Mike Jeffrey
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dz60tro9kl2x link]
Last album = "The Soft Machine"
(1968)
This album = "Volume Two"
(1969)
Next album = "Third"
(1970)

"Volume Two" is an LP by The Soft Machine, first released in 1969. Its music introduces a jazz influence to the sort of humour and psychedelia present on "volume one": "The Soft Machine" (1968).

Track listing

ide one

"Rivmic Melodies"
#"Pataphysical Introduction - part I" (Robert Wyatt) - 1:01
#"A Concise British Alphabet - part I" (Hugh Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 0:10
#"Hibou, Anemone and Bear" (Mike Ratledge, Wyatt) - 5:59
#"A Concise British Alphabet - part II" (Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 0:12
#"Hulloder" (Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 0:54
#"Dada Was Here" (Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 3:26
#"Thank You Pierrot Lunaire" (Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 0:49
#"Have You Ever Bean Green?" (Hopper, arr. Wyatt) - 1:19
#"Pataphysical Introduction - part II" (Wyatt) - 0:51
#"Out of Tunes" (Ratledge, Hopper, Wyatt) - 2:34

ide two

#"As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still" (Ratledge, Wyatt) - 2:35
#"Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening" (Hopper) - 2:32"Esther's Nose Job"
#"Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging" (Ratledge) - 1:51
#"Pig" (Ratledge, Wyatt) - 2:09
#"Orange Skin Food" (Ratledge) - 1:47
#"A Door Opens and Closes" (Ratledge) - 1:10
#"10:30 Returns to the Bedroom" (Ratledge, Hopper, Wyatt) - 4:13

Personnel

*Robert Wyatt - drums, lead & backing vocals
*Mike Ratledge - piano, Lowrey Holiday De Luxe organ, plus flute
*Hugh Hopper - bass guitar, plus acoustic guitar & alto saxophoneplus
*Brian Hopper - soprano & tenor saxophone

References

* [http://www.progarchives.com/Progressive_rock_discography_BAND.asp?band_id=633 Soft Machine biography] at [http://www.progarchives.com www.progarchives.com]
* [http://calyx.club.fr/softmachine/works.html Discography] at [http://calyx.club.fr/ calyx.club.fr]


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