 Comprehensive limited 17-disc boxset featuring 14 remastered CDs and 3 Blu-rays.
Format: CD / Cat No: 19802998812 / PRE-ORDER Release Date: 30/10/2026
Track Listing: CD 1 - “Third” - Released in June 1970: 1. Facelift / 2. Slightly All the Time / 3. Moon in June / 4. Out-Bloody-Rageous
CD 2 - London – May 1970: 1. Facelift / 2. Moon in June / 3. Esther’s Nose Job
CD 3 - BBC Radio Sessions 1970: 1. Slightly All the Time / 2. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 3. Eamonn Andrews / BBC Session - 4th May 1970: 1. Facelift / 2. Esther’s Nose Job / BBC Radio 1 “In Concert” – 31st May 1970: 1. Virtually / 2. Fletcher’s Blemish / BBC Radio 1 session – 15th December 1970
CD 4 - The Promenade Concert - Royal Albert Hall 13th August 1970 - Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio Three: 1. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 2. Facelift
3. Esther’s Nose Job / 4. Pig / 5. Orange Skin Food / 6. A Door Opens and Closes - Pigling Bland - 10:30 Returns to the Bedroom
CD 5 - “Fourth” - Released in February 1971: 1. Teeth / 2. Kings and Queens / 3. Fletcher’s Blemish / 4. Virtually Part 1 / 5. Virtually Part 2 / 6. Virtually Part 3 / 7. Virtually Part 4
CD 6 - BBC Radio 1 In Concert - 11th March 1971: 1. Blind Badger / 2. Neo Caliban Grides / 3. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 4. Eamonn Andrews / 5. Pigling Bland / 6. Kings and Queens / 7. Teeth / 8. All White
CD 7 - Gondel Filmkunsttheater, Bremen, Germany - 23rd March 1971 - Radio Bremen concert: 1. Facelift / 2. Virtually / 3. Slightly All the Time / 4. Fletcher’s Blemish / 5. Neo-Caliban Grides / 6. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 7. Eamonn Andrews / 8. All White / 9. Kings and Queens / 10. Teeth / 11. Pigling Bland
CD 8 - BBC Radio sessions 1971: BBC Radio 1 session – 1st June 1971: 1. Neo-Caliban Grides / 2. Dedicated to You But You Weren’t Listening / 3. Eamonn Andrews - All White / BBC Radio 1 session – 15th November 1971: 1. As If / 2. Drop / 3. Welcome to Frillsville / BBC Radio 1 session – 11th July 1972: 1. Fanfare / 2. All White / 3. M C / 4. Drop
CD 9 - “Fifth” - Released in July 1972: 1. All White / 2. Drop / 3. M C / 4. As If / 5. L B O / 6. Pigling Bland / 7. Bone / Bonus tracks - The Alternative Fifth Sessions: 1. As If / 2. Untitled Blow / 3. Pigling Bland / 4. (coda) Esther’s Nose Job / 5. All White (Take Two) / 6. As If / 7. Drum Solo / 8. Pigling Bland
CD 10 - BBC Radio 1 In Concert - 20 July 1972: 1. Fanfare / 2. All White / 3. Slightly All the Time / 4. M C / 5. Drop / 6. Stumble / 7. L.B.O. / 8. As If / 9. Riff / 10. Gesolreut
CD 11 - “Six” - Released in February 1973: The live record: 1. Fanfare / 2. All White / 3. Between / 4. Riff I / 5. 37 ½ / 6. Gesolreut / 7. E.P.V. / 8. Lefty / 9. Stumble / 10. 5 from 13 (for Phil Seamen with Love & Thanks) / 11. Riff II / The studio record: 1. The Soft Weed Factor / 2. Stanley Stamp’s Gibbon Album (for B.O.) / 3. Chloe and the Pirates / 4. 1983
CD 12 - “Seven” - Released in October 1973: 1. Nettle Bed / 2. Carol Ann / 3. Day’s Eye / 4. Bone Fire / 5. Tarabos / 6. D.I.S. / 7. Snodland / 8. Penny Hitch / 9. Block / 10. Down the Road / 11. The German Lesson / 12. The French Lesson
CD 13 - BBC Sessions 1973 – 1974 - BBC Radio 1 John Peel session – 20th November 1973: 1. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album / 2. Hazard Profile (Part 1) / 3. Sinepost / 4. Down the Road / BBC Radio 3 Jazz in Britain session – 26th August 1974: 1. North Point / 2. The Man Who Waved at Trains / 3. Hazard Profile (Parts 1 – 4)
CD 14 - Montreux Festival - 4th July 1974: 1. Hazard Profile / 2. The Floating World / 3. Ealing Comedy / 4. Bundles / 5. Land of the Bag Snake / 6. Joint / 7. The Man Who Waved at Trains / 8. Peff / 9. The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise) / 10. LBO / 11. Riff II / 12. Lefty / 13. Penny Hitch (coda)
Blu-ray 1 - The Video vaults 1970 - 1971:
Theatre de la Musique, Paris - 2nd March 1970 - Recorded for French television: 1. Eamonn Andrews / 2. Backwards / 3. Mousetrap / 4. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 5. Facelift / 6. Vocal improvisation / 7. Esther’s Nose Job / Pigling Bland
Pop Deux - 12 December 1970: The Recording of Soft Machine Fourth
BBC TV – Anatomy of Pop - 10th January 1971: 1. Neo-Caliban Grides
Theatre 140, Brussels - 14th January 1971 - Filmed for “Pop Shop” – Belgian TV: 1. Improvisation / 2. Neo-Caliban Grides / 3. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 4. Kings and Queens / 5. Teeth / 6. Pigling Bland / 7. Esther’s Nose Job (excerpt) / 8. It’s Nothing / 9. Mousetrap / 10. Noisette
Blu-ray 2 - The Video vaults 1971 – 1975:
'Beat Club’ Radio Bremen TV Session - 23rd March 1971: 1. Neo-Caliban Grides / 2. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 3. Vocal improvisation / 4. Eamonn Andrews / All White
Berliner Jazztage Philharmonichalle, West Berlin - 7th November 1971: 1. Neo Caliban Grides / 2. Slightly All The Time / 3. Drop / 4. M C / 5. Out-Bloody-Rageous / 6. As If / 7. Dark Swing / 8. Pigling Bland / 9. Esther’s Nose Job (Outro)
Filmed 5th November 1972 at CBS Studios, London for “Emission Rockenstock” - Broadcast 30th January 1973 ORTF French Television: 1. The Soft Weed Factor / 2. LBO / 3. Gesolreut
BBC TV – FULL HOUSE - 17th February 1973 - Soft Machine interviews and the band perform: 1. Gesolreut / 2. Fanfare - All White
Blu-ray 3 - The Video Vaults 1973 – 1974:
Soft Machine & Friends ‘Jazz Workshop’ - Congresszentrum, Hamburg, Germany on May 17, 1973: 1. Fanfare / 2. All White / 3. Link 1 / 4. The Soft Weed Factor / 5. Link 2 / 6. 37 ½ / 7. Link 3 / 8. Riff / 9. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album / 10. Chloe and the Pirates / 11. Gesolreut / 12. E.P.V. / 13. Link 4 / 14. Stumble / 15. One Across / 16. Riff II
Bataclan, Paris - 29th May 1973 - Broadcast on “Pop Deux” – French TV 30th June 1973: 1. Riff / Down The Road / 2. Gesolreut / Chloe And The Pirates
Montreux Jazz Festival - 4th July 1974: 1. Hazard Profile / 2. The Floating World / 3. Ealing Comedy / 4. Bundles / 5. Land of the Bag Snake / 6. Joint / 7. The Man Who Waved at Trains / 8. Peff / 9. The Man Who Waved at Trains (reprise) / 10. LBO / 11. Riff II / 12. Lefty / 13. Penny Hitch (coda)
More information: A 17-disc boxset presenting the most influential period in the Soft Machine story across 14 remastered (from the original ¼” tapes) CDs and 3 Blu-rays.
Centred around the band's five CBS albums (Third to Seven), Slightly All The Time includes an entirely different and previously unreleased set of recordings of the Fifth album. It also contains all of the band's BBC sessions still in existence (the complete performances for the first time) and a significant amount of previously unavailable audio-visual full concert recordings from European performances.
Packaged in a sturdy 12” x 12” slipcase, with a hardback book featuring many rare photographs and extensive notes by Sid Smith.
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