Bundles (album)

Bundles

Studio album by Soft Machine

Released

22 March, 1975

Recorded

July 1974 at CBS Whitfield St Studios, London

Genre

Jazz fusion

Length

41:55

Label

Harvest

Producer

Soft Machine

Professional reviews

Soft Machine chronology

Seven
(1973)

Bundles
(1975)

Softs
(1976)

Bundles is a 1975 album by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene.^{[citation needed]}

On Bundles, only keyboardist and founding member Mike Ratledge is left of the early Soft Machine line-ups. Guitarist Allan Holdsworth's prominent contributions set the album apart from previous Soft Machine recordings, which had not featured a guitarist for seven years, since their debut single.^[1]

This is the last studio album featuring Ratledge listed as band member. Only two compositions by him are featured, both less than two minutes long. Only later of these include guitar at the end of the song on otherwise guitar-dominated album.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Side one
- 1.2 Side two
2 Personnel
3 References
4 External links

Track listing

All compositions by Karl Jenkins except where indicated.

Side one

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

Side two

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

with

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

References

^ Calyx band profile

External links

Discography at Calyx website

v • d • e Soft Machine

Kevin Ayers • Elton Dean • Hugh Hopper • Mike Ratledge • Robert Wyatt Daevid Allen • Roy Babbington • John Etheridge • Karl Jenkins • John Marshall Marc Charig • Nick Evans • Jimmy Hastings • Allan Holdsworth Brian Hopper • Ric Sanders • Alan Skidmore • Andy Summers • Alan Wakeman

Studio Albums	The Soft Machine (1968) • Volume Two (1969) • Third (1970) • Fourth (1971) • Five (1972) • Six (1973) • Seven (1973) • Bundles (1975) • Softs (1976) • Land of Cockayne (1981)

Singles	"Love Makes Sweet Music" (1967) • "Joy of a Toy" (1968) • "Soft Space" (1977)

Live Albums	Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) • Live at the Proms 1970 (1988) • BBC Radio 1967-1971 (2003) • BBC Radio 1971-1974 (2003) • Soft Machine and Heavy Friends (2005) • Softstage (2005)

Cuneiform albums	Spaced (1996) • Virtually (1998) • Noisette (2000) • Backwards (2002) • Live in Paris (2004) • Grides (2006) • Middle Earth Masters (2006)

Related articles	Canterbury sound • Jazz fusion • The Wilde Flowers