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Artist:	SOFT MACHINE
Title:	Alive In Paris 1970
Label:	VOICE PRINT (UK)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	VP 045DVD

Great quality French TV broadcast, recorded on 3/2/70. "This DVD captures The Canterbury Sound legends, Soft Machine, live in France filmed in 1970 at the Theatre de la Musique. The line up of the band at the time included Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean and Lyn Dobson. This rare footage has only recently been rediscovered and as such is a rare insight into one of the classic British genre defining bands of the sixties and seventies. Tracks include 'Out-Bloody-Rageous,' 'Eamonn Andrews,' 'Facelift' and 'Esther's Nose Job.' "Shot with tangible cinematic flair at Paris' photogenic Theatre De La Musique in March 1970 this superb quality live footage of the Softs at their freewheeling peak was originally broadcast on French Television's Pop 2 slot in two 30 minute segments in the wake of the band's extensive French tour of February and March 1970. Like the sounds fashioned onstage by Messrs Wyatt, Hopper, Ratledge, Dean and Dobson the visual style here is both highly fluid and refreshingly free of the stylistic cliches all too familiar from countless lookalike in concert films. Interestingly, the one thing the footage conspicuously lacks is a surplus of conventional head on camera angles with instead vantage points from side stage and from behind Robert Wyatt's drum kit and the band's backline much in evidence. With the Softs flying high sans safety net and previewing material from their upcoming album Third, the audience in raptures, Robert Wyatt looking like the younger brother of Brian Jones and the sight of Orangina bottles decorating the top of the amps this is a hugely evocative period piece made all the more vivid by the warm hues of the colour film stock. They sure don't make 'em like this any more." -- Grahame Bent, Record Collector. NTSC format, region free, 60 minutes running time.

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