Land of Cockayne (album)

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Land of Cockayne
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Studio album by
Released1981
RecordedJune & July 1980
Studio Pye Studios & Riverside Studios in London
Genre Jazz rock
Length43:51
Label EMI EMC 3348
Producer Mike Thorne
Soft Machine chronology
Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
(1978)
Land of Cockayne
(1981)
Hidden Details
(2018)
Professional ratings
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Land of Cockayne is the tenth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1981. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty. It would be the last album released under the Soft Machine name until Hidden Details in 2018.

Contents

Overview

In 1979, Karl Jenkins, who had been a member of Soft Machine from May 1972 to the band's split in December 1978, was among a number of top session musicians put together for an ad hoc band called Rollercoaster, recording a Stevie Wonder tribute album called Wonderin' (1980). After that album was completed, a number of the Rollarcoaster musicians decided to record another album together, this time under the Soft Machine name. [2] Some of the musicians involved in the project would be part of Soft Machine's next live line-up, which played a six-night residency at Ronnie Scott's in 1984.

Track listing

All compositions by Karl Jenkins.

Side one

  1. "Over 'n' Above" – 7:24
  2. "Lotus Groves" – 4:57
  3. "Isle of the Blessed" – 1:56
  4. "Panoramania" – 7:07
  5. "Behind the Crystal Curtain" – 0:53

Side two

  1. "Palace of Glass" – 3:22
  2. "Hot-Biscuit Slim" – 7:27
  3. "(Black) Velvet Mountain" – 5:10
  4. "Sly Monkey" – 5:00
  5. "A Lot of What You Fancy..." – 0:35

Personnel

Soft Machine [3]

Additional personnel

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References

  1. "Soft Machine - Land of Cockayne (1981) album rating, user reviews, credits & releases | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. Bennett, Graham Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous SAF Publishing Ltd, 2005 ISBN   0-946719-84-5 ISBN   978-0-946719-84-6 at Google Books
  3. Land of Cockayne (liner notes). Soft Machine. EMI Records. 1981. 1A 062-07439.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)