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July 8 2006, A&E Arts In Rotation Soft Machine Legacy is a very pale ghost of the wildly erratic free-form jazz-folk-rock-R&B-blues-raga group Soft Machine that emerged from the intellectually explosive and artistically liberal atmosphere in Canterbury in the mid-1960s. The original Soft Machine contained, in various combinations over the next decade, such notable members of the British pop-jazz avant garde as bassist/composer Kevin Ayers, singer/drummer Robert Wyatt, singer-songwriter Daevid Allen, keyboardist Michael Ratledge, bassist Hugh Hopper, drummer John Marshall, sax players Elton Dean and Karl Jenkins and guitarists Allan Holdsworth and John Etheridge. The four-piece revival called Soft Machine Legacy - Hopper, Etheridge, Marshall and Dean - manages to evoke much of the progressive spirit of the original band and the heady era that spawned it in the live concert DVD, Soft Machine Legacy, shot last December at the venerable Paris concert club New Morning, only a few weeks before Dean passed away. The 10-song set, ubiquitously available on countless Internet music retail sites for less than $20, includes classics "Ash," "Baker's Treat," "KiteRunner" and "Strange Comfort," as well as several more recent Machine-worthy originals and pre-performance interviews with the 60-something band members who trace with witty, provocative repartee their personal memories of the distant and strange history of one of Britain's most inventive and influential musical collectives. -- Greg Quill .

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