Label: Esoteric Antenna (UK), EANTCD 1015
Style: Progressive Rock, Contemporary Jazz
Country: England
Time: 55:14
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb
Burden of Proof is the sixth album by the Canterbury associated band Soft Machine Legacy and their third studio album, released on CD in March 2013. This was the last album to use the "Legacy" suffix before it was dropped in 2015. Soft Machine returned with Hidden Details in 2018 featuring the same line-up that recorded this album.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_Proof_(Soft_Machine_Legacy_album))
All hail to these vets of jazz and prog rock, we can only salute you. The most obvious expression of all things Softs here is the elegiac re-visioning of Hugh Hopper's ‘Kings & Queens’, replete with a yearning Etheridge solo and Travis' signature echo-rich flute. But this illustrious foursome can draw on legacies beyond the Canterbury scene: ominous Mahavishnu chords lurk beneath ‘Black and Crimson’, the Crims pop up on a familiar riff on ‘Fallout’, and there's a dash of Etheridge's Zappatistas on the lumbering but ecstatic ‘Pump Room’. Marshall and Travis' clattering ‘The Brief’ looks back to Bodywork, their collection of free improvisations and Etheridge even has an overpowering attack of Jimmy Page-itis on the ‘Dazed and Confused’-edged ‘Green Cubes’. But let's not look back: whether it's on a dirty blues like ‘Pie Chart’ or the ambient ambling of ‘They Landed On A Hill’, Legacy remain a band who dish it up hot and fresh today, and hopefully tomorrow.
(jazzwise.com/review/soft-machine-legacy-burden-of-proof)
01. Burden Of Proof (05:51)
02. Voyage Beyond Seven (04:53)
03. Kitto (01:50)
04. Pie Chart (05:07)
05. Jsp (01:03)
06. Kings And Queens (06:46)
07. Fallout (06:59)
08. Going Somewhere Canorous? (01:13)
09. Black And Crimson (05:05)
10. The Brief (02:27)
11. Pump Room (05:19)
12. Green Cubes (05:33)
13. They Landed On A Hill (03:03)
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