During the ten-year period covered by this three-album anthology, twelve
out of the fifteen Soft Machine incarnations to date recorded a single for Polydor, two
sides of demos which later surfaced on the French label Byg, an unreleased single, two
albums on Probe, numerous tapes for the BBC, five albums on CBS (including two doubles)
and a couple for Harvest.
These statistics, in all their convoluted splendour, provide evidence of why compilation
albums which purport to tell the whole story merely relate the part which applies to the
record label in question. I believe the term is 'licensing difficulties'.
For this reason, 'Triple Echo' has taken some time assemble but, as a result, can claim
with justification to be a real chronological history of Soft Machine's recordings,
several of them rare. Furthermore, it proves a perspective which the sum total of their
work - by its sheer bulk and, in some cases, unavailability - is unable to do.
Taken from inner sleeve notes by Al Clark
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1. Love Makes Sweet Music (Ayers)  2. Feelin' Reelin' Squeelin' (Ayers)
3. Memories (Hopper) 4. She's Gone (Ayers) 5. Why Am I So Short? (Hopper/Wyatt) 6. So Boot If At All ? (Ayers/Ratledge/Wyatt) 7. A Certain Kind (Hopper) 8. We Did It Again (Ayers) 9. Plus Belle Qu'une Poubelle (Ayers) 10. Why Are We Sleeping? (Ayers/Ratledge/Wyatt)
11. A Concise British Alphabet - Part 2 (Hopper/Wyatt) 12. Hullo Der (Hopper/Wyatt) 13. Dada Was Here (Hopper/Wyatt) 14. Thank you Pierrot Lunaire (Hopper/Wyatt) 15. Have You Ever Been Green? (Hopper/Wyatt) 16. Pataphisical Introduction - Part 2 (Wyatt)
17. As Long As He Lies Perfectly Still (Ratledge/Wyatt) 18. Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (Hopper)
19. The Moon In June (Wyatt) 20. Esther's Nose Job (Ratledge) 21. Mousetrap (Hopper) 22. Noisette (Hopper) 23. Backwards (Ratledge) 24. Mousetrap Reprise (Hopper) 25. Slightly All The Time (Ratledge) 26. Out-Bloody-Rageous (Ratledge) 27. Eamonn Andrews ( Ratledge) 28. Teeth (Ratledge) 29. Kings And Queens (Hopper) 30. All White (Ratledge) 31. Bone (Dean) 32. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album (Ratledge) 33. Carol Ann (Jenkins) 34. Hazard Profile - Part 1 (Jenkins) 35. The Tale Of Taliesin (Jenkins) |
track 1 - Chas Chandler
track 2 - Kim Fowley
tracks 3, 4- Giorgio Gomelsky
tracks 5-10 - Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson
tracks 19-27 John Walters
