Soft Machine - Paris 1970Soft Machine, live from the Thtre de la Musique, Paris on March 2nd, 1970. Despite their gradual dissolution in the late '70s, Soft Machine's stock has never been higher thanks to a steady stream of archival recordings that continue to surface and throw light on the importance of varying line ups. The quintet version of the band, captured at the Thtre de la Musique, Paris on March 2nd, 1970 for France's Pop Deux TV show features that short lived and

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