Gulu la Soft Machine lidakhazikitsidwa mu 1966 m'tauni yaku England ya Canterbury. Panthawiyo, gululi linaphatikizapo: woimba wotsogolera Robert Wyatt Ellidge, yemwe ankaimba makiyi; komanso woyimba wotsogolera komanso woyimba gitala Kevin Ayers; woimba gitala waluso David Allen; gitala lachiwiri linali m'manja mwa Mike Rutledge. Robert ndi Hugh Hopper, yemwe pambuyo pake adabweretsedwa ngati bassist, adasewera ndi David Allen motsogozedwa ndi Mike Rutledge. Kalelo iwo ankatchedwa "Wilde Flowers".
Kuchokera ku chilengedwe chake, gulu la nyimbo linakhala lodziwika kwambiri ku England, ndipo mwamsanga linapeza chikondi cha omvera. Iwo anali gulu lofunidwa kwambiri pagulu lodziwika bwino la UFO. Panthawi imodzimodziyo, nyimbo yoyamba "Chikondi Chimapanga Nyimbo Zokoma" inalembedwa, yomwe inatulutsidwa pambuyo pake.
Oimba ankaimba m'mayiko a ku Ulaya. Tsiku lina mu 1967, atabwerako kukaona malo, David Allen sanaloledwe kupita ku England. Kenako gululi linapitiliza zisudzo ngati atatu.
Zosintha pamapangidwe a Soft Machine
Posakhalitsa anapeza woyimba gitala watsopano, Andy Summers, koma sanafunikire kukhala kumeneko kwa nthawi yayitali. Mu 68, Soft Machine inali mutu wa Jimi Hendrix Experience ku States. Paulendowu, gululi lidatha kupanga chimbale chawo choyambirira, "The Soft Machine," ku America.
Patapita nthawi yochepa, woimba gitala Kevin Ayers anasiya gulu, zomwe zinachititsa kuti gulu loimba liwonongeke. Woyang'anira Hugh Hopper adalowa m'malo mwa Kevin ndikuthandiza gululo kupanga chimbale chawo chachiwiri, Buku Lachiwiri (1969).
Tsopano Soft Machine ili ndi phokoso lachilendo la psychedelic. Pambuyo pake idasintha kukhala mawonekedwe ena otchedwa jazz fusion chifukwa cha saxophone ya Brian Hopper.
Makina Ofewa agolide
Mamembala ena anayi anawonjezedwa kwa atatu omwe analipo, akuimba zida zoimbira. Pambuyo pa kusintha kwa oimba, quartet inakhazikitsidwa, yomwe aliyense amakumbukira bwino. Elton Dean adaponyedwa ngati saxophonist. Iye anadzaza kusiyana kwa mzere, motero gululo linapangidwa potsiriza.
Mbiri yachitatu ndi yachinayi inalembedwa, "Chachitatu" (1970) ndi "Chachinayi" (1971), motero. Oimba nyimbo za rock ndi jazz za gulu lachitatu Lyn Dobson, Nick Evans, Marc Charig ndi ena adagwira nawo ntchito yolenga. Chimbale chachinayi chinakhala chomveka.
Aliyense woimba akhoza kutchedwa katswiri m'munda wake, koma khalidwe lodziwika kwambiri anakhalabe Rutledge, amene gulu lonse anapuma. Anali ndi luso lotha kupanga nyimbo zodabwitsa, kusakaniza makonzedwe ndikuwonjezera kusinthika kwapadera. Wyatt anali ndi mawu opatsa chidwi komanso luso loimba modabwitsa, Dean adasewera ma saxophone apadera, ndipo Hopper adapanga mawonekedwe a avant-garde. Onse pamodzi anapanga gulu logwirizana ndi lathunthu, lapadera m’mbali zonse.
Chimbale chachitatu chinatulutsidwanso kwa zaka 10 ndipo chinakhala chovotera kwambiri pakati pa oimba onse.
Gulu likuyandama
Wyatt adaganiza zochoka m'gululi mu 70, koma adakwanitsa kumubweretsanso kwakanthawi. Anyamatawo amalemba nyimbo "Zisanu", ndipo pambuyo pake woimbayo amachokanso. M'miyezi ingapo, Dean atsatira zomwezo. Anatha kuyanjananso ndi omwe kale anali mamembala pambuyo pake kuti alembe nyimbo ina, "Six", yomwe inatulutsidwa mu 1973.
Patangopita nthawi pang'ono kutulutsidwa kwa chimbale ichi, Hopper adachoka ndipo adasinthidwa ndi Roy Babbington, yemwe anali wamphamvu pamabasi amagetsi. Otsatirawa tsopano anali Mike Ratledge, Roy Babbington, Karl Jenkins ndi John Marshall. Mu 1973 iwo analemba situdiyo chimbale "Seven".
Album lotsatira linatulutsidwa mu 1975 pansi pa mutu wakuti "Mitolo", wopangidwa ndi gitala watsopano Alan Holdsward. Ndi iye amene anapanga chida chake pakati pa phokoso lonse. Chaka chotsatira, John Edgeridge adatenga malo ake ndikutulutsa chimbale cha Softs. Atatuluka, womaliza mwa omwe adayambitsa, Rutledge, amasiya Soft Machine.
Ndiye oimba angapo anaitanidwa ku gulu: bass gitala Steve Cook, Alan Wakeman - saxophone, ndi Rick Sanders - violin. Mzere watsopano unapanga chimbale "Alive and Well", koma phokoso ndi kalembedwe kake sizinali zofanana ndi kale.
Kenako, phokoso tingachipeze powerenga ndi kalembedwe Soft Machine anabwezedwa ndi kujambula chimbale "Land Cockayne" mu 81, analengedwa ndi nawo Jack Bruce, Alan Holdsward ndi Dick Morris kusewera saxophone. Kenako, Jenkins ndi Marshall anatenga gawo mu zoimbaimba gulu popanda mwayi kukhalabe gulu.
Gulu tsopano
Zojambula zonse zamakonsati a gululi zatulutsidwa mwanjira ina kapena ina mosiyanasiyana kuyambira 1988. Mu 2002, ulendo wotchedwa "Soft Works" unachitika, kuphatikizapo Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Marshall ndi Allan Holdsworth.
Gululo linasintha dzina lake kukhala "Soft Machine Legacy" mu 2004, ndipo adalembanso ma Albums ena anayi mofanana ndi kale. "Khalani ku Zaandam", "Soft Machine Legacy", "Live at the New Morning" ndi "Steam" anali kupitiriza kwabwino kwa miyambo yakale ya gululi.
Graham Bennett adasindikiza buku lake mu 2005. Iye anafotokoza moyo ndi ntchito ya lodziwika bwino nyimbo gulu.
