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This evocative music was originally released in May 1994 and was composed and recorded for the UK television coverage of the Whitbread Around the World Yacht race. The album proved popular among fans and was later reissued in 2010 to include an additional three bonus tracks. This new Esoteric Recordings edition has been newly remastered and expanded to include a second CD featuring 15 previously unreleased bonus tracks of additional material and alternate mixes. The release also includes an illustrated booklet with a new essay by Jon Dann.

One of the founding fathers of synth pop, Gary Numan has influenced countless artists with his constantly evolving form of dystopian electronic rock music since the late 1970s. Establishing a lonely, android-like persona, he rose to fame leading Tubeway Army, a pioneering new wave band whose second album, 1979's Replicas, became the first of Numan's three consecutive gold-selling, chart-topping full-lengths in the U.K. The same year's The Pleasure Principle, his first solo effort, included the perennial favorite "Cars," which remains his biggest worldwide hit.

OFT MACHINE 'FLOATING WORLD LIVE' notes by Sid Smith An indispensable record of a band at the top of their game…
The arrival of guitarist Alan Holdsworth into the ranks of Soft Machine in December 1973 marked a significant change in tone and style for the venerable jazz-rock institution. Having started out as an experimental pop group in the mid-1960s, Soft Machine had undergone several changes not only in its personnel but in its music. By the early 1970s albums such as Third, Fourth, boasting long-form compositions in complex and adventurous arrangements, secured their reputation as the UK’s leading jazz-rock performers.

En 2025 pour sa 31ème édition, La Folle Journée s’intéresse à des villes qui ont joué à un moment de leur histoire un rôle capital dans l’évolution de la musique. Force est de constater en effet que l’histoire de la musique s’est construite autour de quelques grandes cités devenues d’extraordinaires centres de culture et de création. Telles des phares éclairant le monde, ces villes particulières ont à un moment donné attiré les plus grands génies et concentré l’essentiel de la vie artistique et musicale, marquant à jamais l’histoire de la civilisation par leur influence et leur rayonnement.

OFT MACHINE 'FLOATING WORLD LIVE' notes by Sid Smith An indispensable record of a band at the top of their game…
The arrival of guitarist Alan Holdsworth into the ranks of Soft Machine in December 1973 marked a significant change in tone and style for the venerable jazz-rock institution. Having started out as an experimental pop group in the mid-1960s, Soft Machine had undergone several changes not only in its personnel but in its music. By the early 1970s albums such as Third, Fourth, boasting long-form compositions in complex and adventurous arrangements, secured their reputation as the UK’s leading jazz-rock performers.

Included with the January 2025 issue (TAKE 334) of Uncut magazine. Stars Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Rose City Band and more! Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Songhoy Blues all appear on the latest free Uncut CD. Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Songhoy Blues all appear on the latest free Uncut CD. The compilation, entitled Nocturnes, comes with the January 2024 issue of Uncut, and showcases the month’s best new music.

Included with the February 2025 issue (TAKE 335) of Uncut magazine. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The 15-track compilation, Take A Load Off, showcases the month’s best new music, and comes with our issue dated February 2025.

Geza Anda Since his death in 1976 at the age of 55, Géza Anda's considerable reputation has faded somewhat from view. But in his heyday he was widely regarded as a transcendent pianist, possessed of a natural technique that gave his performances an intimate quality, even when he was scaling the Himalayan heights of his signature Brahms B flat major concerto. It was with that work that he made his debut in 1939 in Budapest under Willem Mengelberg. Anda was born in 1921 in Budapest; after studying with Imre Stefaniai and Imre Keeri-Szanto, he became a piano pupil of Ernst von Dohnányi at the Royal Music Academy.

In 1971 the ever-evolving Soft Machine entered yet another period of transition following the departure of one of their founding members, drummer Robert Wyatt five months after the release of their Fourth album in February 1971. His replacement was Phil Howard, who had come to the UK along with a wave of other top-drawer players from Australia and New Zealand in the 1960s and was part of Elton Dean’s group, Just Us. Whilst this decision may have been born out of necessity, Howard's arrival was a boost to Dean’s desire to move to a looser mode of expression, something he'd been doing since Fletcher’s Blemish (from Soft Machine’s Fourth) and their live blow-out, Neo Caliban Grides, which had been opening live shows of the day to startling effect.

Included with the February 2025 issue (TAKE 335) of Uncut magazine. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The Weather Station, The Delines, Richard Dawson, Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and more feature on our latest free CD. The 15-track compilation, Take A Load Off, showcases the month’s best new music, and comes with our issue dated February 2025.