内容（「CDジャーナル」データベースより）
ロバート・ワイアット,アラン・ホールズワースなど名だたるミュージシャンゆかりのS.マシーンが73年に発表した本作は1~11がライヴ録音,12~15がスタジオ録音というイレギュラーな構成。密度の高さは昨今のバンドの比ではない。
From Amazon.co.uk
Rewind have compressed the original 1973 CBS live/studio double onto one CD. By this time, keyboardist Mike Ratledge was the only extant founder member, but bassist Hugh Hopper and drummer John Marshall had already become staunch right-hand men. Karl Jenkins completed the quartet, mirroring Ratledge's electric and acoustic pianos, but making his most significant contributions on oboe, soprano and baritone saxophones. Lurking behind a horrid airbrushed pink cover, the music still has a hard, probing edge: a few years later, what was left of the band would move much further towards the jazz-rock mainstream. The live cuts are characteristically extended, selections merging into a seamless sequence. "All White" highlights the piercing oboe of Jenkins, free-blowing beside Ratledge's chunky electric piano, then the leader's trademark distressed-gothic organ sound is heard at its most extreme during "Riff" and "Lefty", the latter stirring up an energised free-improv storm, boasting some particularly exciting fills from Marshall, who's impressive again during his tight-rolling "5 From 13" solo, scuttling recklessly across the stereo field. On the studio-recorded side, twin electric pianos build up oscillating crosstalk on "The Soft Weed Factor", reminiscent of Terry Riley's systems music, Ratledge weighing in with a mammoth icepick-velocity solo on "Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album". --
Martin Longley
~ ソフト・マシーン&ヘヴィ・フレンズ
~ ソフト・マシーン&ヘヴィ・フレンズ
~ ソフト・マシーン&ヘヴィ・フレンズ
~ Soft Machine
~ ハットフィールド&ザ・ノース
