The 14th album from this band from Great Britain.
The band was a quartet with a lineup of drums, bass, guitars, piano, duduk, mellotron, flutes, saxophones and electronics.
Two guest added guitars and organ.
According to the band, this is their 13th album. However... most of us regard the 1976 album Rubber Riff as a Soft Machine album. Hence, this is their 14th album. This as a clarification.
Thirteen is clocking in at sixty-five minutes and the music is a blend of pure jazz and fusion.
The music is mostly pretty dense jazz.
Daevid Allen and his guitar appears as a guest musician here on one track, some forty five years after he left the band.
There are some melodic stuff here but there are not many of those. The music is driven by guitars, flutes, organs and mostly saxophones. Theo Travis is the most prominent member of the band on this album.
This album is the least accessible, the least melodic of their albums, going back to 1969. The music is good though. This album is not among their best albums though. I am still glad that this band is alive, touring and releasing new albums.
3 points
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