UK release includes Canterbury legends Pip Pyle, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean & Sophia Domancich. This album has been unavaiable for many years and this reissue is remastered. Voiceprint. 2005.

Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt guests on their 1974 debut: Calyx; Rifferama; Bossa Nochance; Licks for the Ladies; Shaving Is Boring; Going Up to People and Tinkling, and more inventive prog-rock gems... more

This sophomore LP dives yet further into virtuosic territory. Check out the chops as you behold The Bryden 2-Step (for Amphibians), Pts. 1 & 2; The Collapso; Squarer for Maud; Dreams Wide Awake;... more

Bonus songs from the 1980 compilation Afters and the 1975 live album Over the Rainbow join the band's complete 1975 release. This is as eccentric—and enjoyable—as UK art-rock gets: Lounging There... more

Former partner of Fred Frith, Michael Mantler and Carla Bley, John Greaves passes without transition from a tribute to Marcel Duchamp to pop song via Irish and brass-band compositions and much more.... more

2001 release for former members of Soft Machine & Henry Cow, Pip Pyle, Philippe-Marcel Pung & John Greaves.

Gong was formed in 1967 after Daevid Allen left Soft Machine, and due to a Visa complication was denied entry to the UK and moved to France where he and Gilli Smyth established the first incarnation... more