Soft Machine – Third (Vinyl) Snoop Dogg and fans and critics alike

and fans and critics alike took note of his pithy songcraft

blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural chaos of contemporary America

The Centre of Me (Is a Symphony of You)

is perhaps the most seminal recording released in the aftermath of the 1974 revolution

Soft Machine – Third (Vinyl) Snoop Dogg and fans and critics alikeSoft Machine plunged deeper into jazz and contemporary electronic music on this pivotal release, which incited The Village Voice to call it a milestone achievement when it was released. It's a double album of stunning music, with each side devoted to one composition two by Mike Ratledge, and one each by Hopper and Wyatt, with substantial help from a number of backup musicians, including Canterbury mainstays Elton Dean and Jimmy Hastings. The Ratledge