Land of Cockayne (album)

Land of Cockayne
Studio album by Soft Machine
Released 1981
Recorded June & July 1980
Genre Jazz rock
Length 43:51
Label EMI EMC 3348
Producer Mike Thorne
Soft Machine chronology
Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris
(1978)Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris1978		 Land of Cockayne
(1981)
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Land of Cockayne is the tenth studio album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine, released in 1981. By this point, the band contained none of its original members. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty.

Overview

The album came about as the result of a project in which Karl Jenkins and John Marshall had been involved featuring top session musicians. The ad hoc band, Rollercoaster, had recently recorded the Stevie Wonder tribute album Wonderin' and decided to record another album together.[2] Many of the musicians included on the Cockayne album would make up Soft Machine's final live line-up which played a six-night residency at Ronnie Scott's in 1984. This is the only Soft Machine album to feature a string section.

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 
Guests musicians 

References

  1. ↑ "The Land of Cockayne - Soft Machine | 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
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