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Shank Hall
SOFT MACHINE USA TOUR
Sun, 22 Oct, 7:00 PM CDT
Doors open
6:30 PM CDT
Shank Hall
1434 N. Farwell Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53202
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Description
JOHN ETHERIDGE guitar
THEO TRAVIS flute, sax, electric piano
FRED BAKER bass guitar
ASAF SIRKIS drums
Soft Machine is a journey through time and space and their glorious artistic past, but also through a classy present, with a band that, despite the changes in members, maintains intact that unique style of psychedelic jazz that combines power and subtlety and that is, almost six decades after its formation, a registered trademark of one of the greatest contemporary instrumental bands. - ROCKAXIS MAGAZINE, CHILE
The band enjoys life on that perilous bridge conjoining experimentation and tradition.- NEW YORK CITY JAZZ RECORD, USA
It’s impressive that they can still produce music with this level of invention and verve after more than fifty years, and there are no signs here of that stopping anytime soon I’m very pleased to say. - PROGRESSIVE ASPECT, USA
No band of this vintage have any right to still sound so fearless and ferocious. Don’t miss them! - PROG MAGAZINE, UK
The current incarnation of the band is actually bloody good! - THE JAZZ JOURNAL, UK
Masters of their craft, and truly at the top of their game, not only as soloists but as contributors in an actual band. ... challenging jazz-fusion, adventurous prog-rock, bits of chaotic free-jazz, atmospheric instrumental pop-jazz, and even a little hard rock. Extraordinary! - SEA OF TRANQUILITY, USA
For a band that has been around in different shapes and forms producing unconventional music for more than 50 years, it is a triumph to still be able to play at this level of complexity and to come across as vigorous as this. Old music, but young heart indeed. - DPRP, UK/Netherlands
Event Information
Age Limit
21+

Jazz-Rock
Soft Machine
Soft Machine
Jazz-Rock
Their work, from their earliest performances as a psychedelic band who were
contemporaries of, and shared stages with, Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd and the
Jimi Hendrix Experience, all the way to being one of Europe's best known
'fusion' groups, has influenced several generations of bands, and continues to
be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists.
Whilst the line-up of Soft Machine may have changed many times since the
heady days of the late 1960’s, the band’s spirit of musical adventure, and the
ease with which it freely avoids being pigeon holed and can move from
powerful progressive jazz fusion to atmospheric psychedelia to free
improvised jazz-rock to ambient loop music continues to make it both unique
and totally contemporary.