Bundles is the eighth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1975.[1]

Bundles
Studio album by Soft Machine
Released	22 March 1975
Recorded	July 1974 at CBS Whitfield St Studios, London
Genre	Jazz rock[1]
Length	41:55
Label	Harvest
Producer	Soft Machine
Soft Machine chronology
Seven (1973) Bundles (1975) Softs (1976)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Overview

By Bundles, only keyboardist and founding member Mike Ratledge was left from the early Soft Machine line-ups; the other members had all previously been in the jazz-rock band Nucleus. Guitarist Allan Holdsworth's prominent contributions set the album apart from previous Soft Machine recordings,[1] as guitar was an instrument ignored by Soft Machine since 1969's Volume Two.

This is the last studio album featuring Ratledge listed as a full band member.[1] Only two compositions by him are included, one of which is less than two minutes long.

Track listing

All compositions by Karl Jenkins except where indicated.

Side one

1. "Hazard Profile Part One" – 9:18
2. "Hazard Profile Part Two (Toccatina)" – 2:21
3. "Hazard Profile Part Three" – 0:33
4. "Hazard Profile Part Four" – 1:25
5. "Hazard Profile Part Five" – 5:29
6. "Gone Sailing" (Allan Holdsworth) – 0:59

Side two

1. "Bundles" – 3:14
2. "Land of the Bag Snake" (Holdsworth) – 3:35
3. "The Man Who Waved at Trains" (Mike Ratledge) – 1:50
4. "Peff" (Ratledge) – 3:37
5. "Four Gongs Two Drums" (Nick Mason) – 2:31
6. "The Floating World" – 7:07

Personnel

Soft Machine

• Karl Jenkins – oboe, soprano saxophone, acoustic & electric piano
• Allan Holdsworth – electric, acoustic and 12-string guitars
• Mike Ratledge – Fender Rhodes electric piano, Lowrey Holiday Deluxe organ, EMS Synthi AKS synthesizer[1]
• Roy Babbington – bass guitar
• Nick Mason – drums, percussion

Future Soft Machine personnel

• Ray Warleigh – alto flute and bass flute on "The Floating World"

References

External links

• Soft Machine - Bundles (1975) album review by Dave Lynch, credits & releases at AllMusic
• Soft Machine - Bundles (1975) album releases & credits at Discogs
• Soft Machine - Bundles (1975) album credits & user reviews at ProgArchives.com
• Soft Machine - Bundles (1975) album to be listened on Spotify
• Soft Machine - Bundles (1975) album to be listened on YouTube
• Soft Machine discography (info about the albums) at Calyx

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