Bundles (album)

Bundles
Studio album by Soft Machine
Released	22 March, 1975
Recorded	July 1974 at CBS Whitfield St Studios, London
Genre	Jazz rock[1]
Length	41:55
Label	Harvest
Producer	Soft Machine
Soft Machine chronology
Seven (1973) Bundles (1975) Softs (1976)

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Bundles is the eighth studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, released in 1975.^[2]

Overview

By Bundles, only keyboardist and founding member Mike Ratledge was left from the early Soft Machine line-ups; the other members had all previously been in the jazz-rock band Nucleus. Guitarist Allan Holdsworth's prominent contributions set the album apart from previous Soft Machine recordings,^[2] which had not featured a guitarist for seven years, since their debut single.^[3]

This is the last studio album featuring Ratledge listed as a full band member.^[2] Only two compositions by him are featured, both less than two minutes long.

Track listing

All compositions by Karl Jenkins except where indicated.

Side one

1. "Hazard Profile Part One" – 9:18
2. "Hazard Profile Part Two (Toccatina)" – 2:21
3. "Hazard Profile Part Three" – 1:05
4. "Hazard Profile Part Four" – 0:46
5. "Hazard Profile Part Five" – 5:29
6. "Gone Sailing" (Holdsworth) – 0:59

Side two

1. "Bundles" – 3:14
2. "Land of the Bag Snake" (Holdsworth) – 3:35
3. "The Man Who Waved at Trains" (Mike Ratledge) – 1:50
4. "Peff" (Ratledge) – 1:57
5. "Four Gongs Two Drums" (John Marshall) – 4:09
6. "The Floating World" – 7:12

Personnel

• Roy Babbington – bass guitar
• Allan Holdsworth – electric, acoustic, and 12-string guitars
• Karl Jenkins - oboe, piano, electric piano, soprano saxophone
• John Marshall – drums, percussion
• Mike Ratledge – (Lowrey Holiday Deluxe) organ, (Fender Rhodes) electric piano, (AKS) synthesizer^[2]

Additional personnel

• Ray Warleigh – alto flute and bass flute on "The Floating World"

References

External links

• Discography at Calyx website