With Hugh Hopper's death in 2009, Soft Machine Legacy lost its last link with the classic Soft Machine lineups that recorded its most potent music. What is here, then, is a band which pledges ...

Soft Machine Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971 Reel Recordings 2009Here's some heady stuff from what in 2010 feels like a golden era, dubious though that notion might be in reality. There's ...

Pat Metheny and former Police members Andy Summers and Sting are just a few of the celebrated musicians to sing the praises of English guitar master John Etheridge, who performs in San Diego Thursday ...

Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5 after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...

Soft Machine in 1967, l-r: Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen - BIPS/Getty Images Mike Ratledge, who has died aged 81, was the keyboard player whose sound was at the heart of ...

Mike Ratledge, founding keyboardist for influential English group Soft Machine, died on Wednesday following a brief illness. He was 81. The news came via current Soft Machine guitarist John Etheridge, ...