On their good days, Soft Machine could slide effortlessly between jazz, rock, and classical influences and show a lot of other bands how it's done. Unlike a lot of other Peel Sessions releases, which include as little as a quartet of tracks, this volume, drawn from appearances on the BBC from June 1969 through November 1971, takes up two full CDs, and none of the space is wasted -- disc one also opens with Robert Wyatt's special invocational version of "Moon in June," written for the occasion and referring to it throughout. It is strange, but the bandmembers' playing is Read more on Last.fm.
