spurensicherung - roots and traces #007. esther in kralingen.

the soft machine. 1970. in 1970, on the 28th of june, soft machine played at the kralingen festival near rotterdam in the netherlands. you can hear mike ratledge on keyboards, hugh hopper on bass, elton dean on woodwinds and robert wyatt drumming and vocalizing. this version of "esther´s nose-job" was only released on the bootleg some dutch hippie activists made available short after the festival. though we all own most of the official soft machine releases and though a lot of long lost live and studio recordings are unearthed and edited by brian and hugh hopper on a rather regular basis (so many thanks to them: i never even dared to hope to ever be listening to these sounds) there still are a few tracks that remain to be re-discovered: here is one of them: |>> the soft machine - esther´s nose-job