Six
Album by Soft Machine
Released	1973
Recorded	1972
Genre	Rock
Length	76:25
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	?
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Soft Machine chronology
Five (1972)	Six (1973)	Seven (1973)

Six is a 1973 jazzy instrumental album, originally released as a double LP by the British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz/fusion band Soft Machine who were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. It is their first album with Karl Jenkins (reeds, keyboards, from Ian Carr's Nucleus) and won first place in the Melody Maker British Jazz Album of the Year award in 1973. The Soft Machine were a pioneering British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz band from Canterbury, Kent, England, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. ... A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially records and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it. ... LP or lp may stand for: Look up LP and lp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The word psychedelic is a neologism coined from the Greek words for mind, ψυχη (psyche), and manifest, δηλειν (delein). ... Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Bitches Brew (1970) by Miles Davis is considered the most influential early fusion album Jazz fusion (sometimes referred to simply as fusion) is a musical genre that loosely encompasses the merging of jazz with other styles, particularly rock, funk, R&B, and world music. ... In music, a band is a group of musicians, or musical ensemble, usually popular or folk, playing parts of a musical arrangement. ... The Soft Machine were a pioneering British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz band from Canterbury, Kent, England, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. ... The Canterbury Scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock musicians that were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... Karl Jenkins (born February 17, 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer. ... Nucleus (1985) Ian Carr (b. ... Nucleus were a pioneering British jazz-rock band that continued in different incarnations from 1969-85. ... Melody Maker, published in the United Kingdom, was (until its closure) the worlds oldest weekly music newspaper. ...

Track listing

Live album, record 1 (41:45) Side 1:

1. "Fanfare" (Jenkins) - 0:42
2. "All white" (Ratledge) - 4:46
3. "Between" (Jenkins, Ratledge) - 2:24
4. "Riff" (Jenkins) - 4:36
5. "37 1/2" (Ratledge) - 6:51

Side 2:

1. "Gesolreut" (Ratledge) - 6:17
2. "E.P.V." (Jenkins) - 2:47
3. "Lefty" (Hopper, Jenkins, Marshall) - 4:56
4. "Stumble" (Jenkins) - 1:42
5. "5 from 13 (for Phil Seamen with love & thanks)" (Marshall) - 5:15
6. "Riff II" (Jenkins) - 1:20

Studio Record, record 2 (34:40) Side 3:

1. "The soft weed factor" (Jenkins) - 11:18
2. "Stanley stamps Gibbon album (for B.O.)" (Marshall) - 5:58

Side 4:

1. "Chloe and the pirates" (Ratledge) - 9:30
2. "1983" (Hopper) - 7:54

Personnel

• Hugh Hopper - bass, sound effects on 1983
• Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone & soprano saxes, electric and grand pianos, celeste
• John Marshall - drums, percussion
• Mike Ratledge - organ, electric and grand pianos, celeste

Record 1: Recorded at the Dome, Brighton and at the Civic Hall, Guilford and mixed at Advision Studios, London during the months of October and November 1972. Hugh Hopper (born 1945, Canterbury, England) is a bass guitarist and composer. ... Karl Jenkins (born February 17, 1944) is a Welsh musician and composer. ...

Record 2: "1983" recorded and mixed at Advision Studios, London. All other compositions recorded and mixed at CBS Studios, London during the months of November and December 1972.