Clue Splitter

Released only a year after Gallery of Suicide. This record marks the beginning of the move toward the sound that the band has now, and a move away from the bassier sound of the past.

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Soft Machine's revolving door of personnel changes continued with 1973's Seven, the last Softs album with a numbered title and also the last released by Columbia. Bassist Hugh Hopper was gone, replaced by Roy Babbington, a guest musician on 1971's Fourth who had played bass with Nucleus. Two other Nucleus alumni, keyboardist/reedman Karl Jenkins and drummer John Marshall, were on board as well, and since keyboardist/composer Mike Ratledge was now the band's only founding member (actually, Hopper wasn't an original member either, having replaced Kevin Ayers for Volume Two), the group's links to their early years seemed increasingly tenuous - and would become more so…

Living Room Music was also the title of a 1940 Cage's composition, not to speaking of Satie's "Musique d'ameublement": Alvin variant was to invite at his Roma house, between december 2008 and june 2009, fellowship traveling musicists, let them freely create and then using each recording, sometimes with street sounds trespassing from the living room windows, as "raw matter" for a radio broadcasting composition commissioned by Berlin's Deutschlandradio Kultur, broadcasted on September 2009. This is the concert version, recorded on January 2010.