SOFT MACHINE - Third (Reissue) VIRGIN PRUNES formulating a core sound that

formulating a core sound that is complex and layered

” In a May 1971 issue of Creem magazine

For Herbert that means treating the world as an instrument

is a contemplation of the unknown and the ineffable

It is also the most hard-fought album of Camera Obscura’s career

SOFT MACHINE - Third (Reissue) VIRGIN PRUNES formulating a core sound that2LP Standard Edition Black Vinyl. Soft Machine released their third album Third in 1970. It is a double album with each side of the vinyl consisting of a single long composition. Its music explores the emerging Jazz Fusion of the type present on Miles Davis' Bitches Brew, which was released just a few months earlier. Third marks the most major of Soft Machine's several shifts in musical genre over their career, completing their transition from