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Facelift France and Holland captures the band at a pivotal moment in the first quarter of 1970 as a short-lived quintet, just before they recorded and released their breakthrough album Third. As broadcast on the French TV programme Pop 2, the film of Soft Machine's concert at Paris' Theatre de la Musique, which constitutes the main course of this release, stands as an exceptional document of the band at, arguably, its artistic peak. It is the earliest footage of the band to be commercially released and also the only video footage known to exist of the quintet line-up that was active from January to March 1970, and contains the only professionally-recorded performance of "Out-Bloody-Rageous" with Lyn Dobson on second sax. It also is the only professionally-recorded alternative performance by the quintet of "Facelift" (the original appearing as the opening track on Third). In addition to the March, 1970 material presented here on vinyl and DVD in splendid stereo sound, Side D presents a previously unreleased performance at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw from January 1970.
Tracklist
Side A
1 Facelift (A-Seite)
2 Backwards (B-Seite)
Side B
3 Mousetrap (reprise)
4 Out-Bloody-Rageous
Side C
1 Eamonn Andrews (C-Seite)
2 Esther's Nose Job / Pigling Bland
Side D
3 Facelift (D-Seite)
4 Moon In June
5 12/8 Theme/Drum Solo
DVD:
1 Eamonn Andrews
2 Backwards
3 Mousetrap (Reprise)
4 Out-Bloody-Rageous
5 Facelift
6 Vocal Improvisation
7 Esther's Nose Job / Pigling Bland
8 Eamonn Andrews
9 Mousetrap
10 Noisette
11 Backwards
12 Mousetrap (Reprise)
13 Out-Bloody-Rageous
14 Facelift
15 Slightly All The Time
16 Moon In June
17 Vocal Improvisation
18 Esther's Nose Job / Pigling Bland