Soft Machine Six
1973 2x Vinyl
Jazz-Rock
Fusion
Avantgarde

Main image
CBS
bass guitar Hugh Hopper
crew [roady] Gerry Stevens
design [design / co-ordination] Barbara Salisbury
drums, percussion John Marshall
tracks a1 to b6, d2 engineer Gary Martin
tracks c1 to d1 engineer Roger Beale
executive-producer Sean Murphy
oboe, baritone saxophone, soprano saxophone, electric piano, grand piano, celesta [celeste] Karl Jenkins
organ, electric piano, grand piano, celesta [celeste] Mike Ratledge
painting Terry Pastor
photography by Michael Putland
producer Soft Machine
Recorded At Brighton Dome
Recorded At Guildford Civic Hall
Recorded At Advision Studios
Recorded At CBS Studios, London
Mixed At Advision Studios
Mixed At CBS Studios, London
Phonographic Copyright (p) CBS Records
Copyright (c) Soft Machine Publishing Company Limited
Copyright (c) Essex Music
Copyright (c) Warner Bros. Music
Published By Essex Music International Ltd.
Published By Warner Bros. Music Ltd.
Pressed By CBS Pressing Plant, Aston Clinton
Printed By Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd.
Original first UK release

℗ 1973 CBS Records
Tubepak by Shorewood Packaging Co. Ltd., England.
Made in England.

Double Pack Cat# is 68214 - on both cover and labels.
Cat#s S 65374 / S 65375 on respective labels.

Released with 'The Inner Sleeve' (Issue II & III) company inner sleeves.

On sleeve it's stated 1983 Copyright of Warner Bros. Music. All other compositions copyright of Soft Machine Publishing Company Limited/Essex Music
On discs is stated Soft Machine Pub. Co./Essex M. (Int'l) Ltd. And Warner Bros. Music Ltd.

'Special Priced 2-Record Set'
A golden sticker says: RECOMMENDED RETAIL PRICE £ 2.99 THIS LABEL IS REMOVABLE

Record 1: Live LP
Recorded at The Dome, Brighton and at the Civic Hall, Guildford, UK and mixed at Advision Studios, London during the months of October and November 1972.
Side A total running time: 19:21
Side B total running time: 22:24

Record 2: Studio LP
'1983' recorded and mixed at Advision Studios, London.
All other compositions recorded and mixed at CBS Studios, London during the months of November and December 1972.


Other: S 65374 (Catalog number disc 1)
Other: S 65375 (Catalog number disc 2)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 A (Label side A)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 B (Label side B)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 A (Label side C)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 B (Label side D)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 A1 S 68214 A S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶A̶1̶ ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶C̶ ∴ 1O (Runout side A, variant 1, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 B1 S 68214 B S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶B̶1̶ ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶D̶ ∴ 1O (Runout side B, variant 1, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 A1 S 68214 C S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶A̶1̶ ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶A̶ ∴ O (Runout side C, variant 1, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 B1 S 68214 D S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶B̶1̶ ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶B̶ ∴ 11 (Runout side D, variant 1, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 65374 A1 S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶C̶ S 68214 A (Runout side A, variant 2, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 68214 B S 65374 B3 (Runout side B, variant 2, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 A1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 68214 C S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶A̶ (Runout side C, variant 2, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶B̶1̶ S 65375 B1 S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶B̶ S 68214 D (Runout side D, variant 2, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 A1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 68214 A ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶C̶ ∴ C (Runout side A, variant 3, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 B1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶B̶1̶ S 68214 B S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶D̶ ∴ C (Runout side B, variant 3, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 A1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 68214 C S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶A̶ ∴ C (Runout side C, variant 3, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 B1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶B̶1̶ S 68214 D S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶B̶ ∴ C (Runout side D, variant 3, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 A1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 68214 A ̶S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶C̶ ∴ 5 (Runout side A, variant 4, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65374 B1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶5̶ ̶B̶1̶ S 68214 B S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶D̶ ∴ 4 (Runout side B, variant 4, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 A1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶A̶1̶ S 68214 C S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶A̶ ∴ 4 (Runout side C, variant 4, stamped)
Matrix / Runout: S 65375 B1 S̶ ̶6̶5̶3̶7̶4̶ ̶B̶1̶ S 68214 D S̶ ̶6̶8̶2̶1̶4̶ ̶B̶ ∴ 5 (Runout side A, variant 4, stamped)