An kafa ƙungiyar Soft Machine a cikin 1966 a cikin garin Canterbury na Ingilishi. Sannan kungiyar ta hada da: Soloist Robert Wyatt Ellidge, wanda ya buga makullan; kuma jagoran mawaƙa kuma bassist Kevin Ayers; ƙwararren mawaki David Allen; guitar ta biyu tana hannun Mike Rutledge. Robert da Hugh Hopper, waɗanda daga baya aka ɗauke su a matsayin bassist, sun yi wasa tare da David Allen a ƙarƙashin sandar Mike Rutledge. Sa'an nan kuma aka kira su "Flunan daji".
Tun lokacin da aka fara shi, ƙungiyar mawaƙa ta shahara sosai a Ingila, kuma cikin sauri ta sami ƙaunar masu sauraro. Su ne mafi yawan mawakan da ake buƙata a shahararren kulob din UFO. A lokaci guda, an yi rikodin abun da ke ciki na farko "Love Makes Sweet Music", wanda aka saki da yawa daga baya.
Mawakan sun yi wasa a kasashen Turai. Wata rana a cikin 1967, bayan dawowa daga yawon shakatawa, David Allen ba a yarda ya shiga Ingila ba. Sannan kungiyar ta ci gaba da taka leda a matsayin ‘yan wasa uku.
Canje-canje a cikin na'ura mai laushi
Ba da da ewa ba ya sami sabon mawaki Andy Summers, amma ba a kaddara ya zauna a can na dogon lokaci ba. A cikin 68, Soft Machine ya zama babban jigo a aikin Jimi Hendrix da kansa (Jimi Hendrix Experience) a cikin Jihohi. A wannan rangadin, ƙungiyar ta sami damar ƙirƙirar fayafai na farko "The Soft Machine" a Amurka.
Bayan ɗan gajeren lokaci, bass guitarist Kevin Ayers ya bar ƙungiyar, wanda ya haifar da rushewar ƙungiyar kiɗa. Manajan Hugh Hopper ya maye gurbin Kevin kuma ya taimaka wa ƙungiyar yin kundi na biyu, Volume Two (1969).
Yanzu Soft Machine yana da sautin hauka wanda ba a saba gani ba. Daga baya ya samo asali zuwa wani nau'i na daban, wanda ake kira Jazz Fusion, godiya ga saxophone na Brian Hopper.
Na'ura mai laushi abun ciki na zinari
An ƙara ƙarin mahalarta huɗu waɗanda suka kunna kayan aikin iska zuwa cikin ukun da ake dasu. Bayan duk canje-canje a cikin mawaƙa, an kafa quartet, wanda kowa ya tuna da kyau. An jefa Elton Dean a matsayin saxophonist. Ya cike gibin da aka samu a layin, ta haka aka kafa kungiyar a karshe.
An rubuta rikodin na uku da na huɗu, "Na uku" (1970) da "Na huɗu" (1971) bi da bi. Ƙirƙirar su ta ƙunshi masu fasaha na dutse da jazz na ɓangare na uku Lyn Dobson, Nick Evans, Marc Charig da sauransu. Faifai na huɗu ya zama sauti.
Ana iya kiran kowane mawaƙin ƙwararre a fagensa, amma mafi kyawun hali shine Rutledge, wanda ya haɗa dukkan ƙungiyar tare. Ya na da ikon tsara abubuwa masu ban mamaki, haɗa shirye-shirye da ƙara haɓakawa na musamman. Wyatt yana da muryoyi masu ban sha'awa da ƙwarewa na ban mamaki, Dean ya buga solos na saxophone na musamman, kuma Hopper ya ƙirƙiri fa'idar avant-garde gabaɗaya. A tare suka kafa kungiya ta kut-da-kut da cikakkiya, wacce ba ta dace da kowa ba.
An sake fitar da kundi na uku tsawon shekaru 10 kuma ya zama mafi girman kima a cikin dukkan ayyukan mawaka.
Ƙungiya ta tashi
Wyatt a cikin shekara 70th ya yanke shawarar barin kungiyar, amma ya sami damar komawa na ɗan lokaci. Mutanen suna yin rikodin kundin "Five", kuma bayan haka mawallafin soloist har yanzu ya sake fita. A cikin watanni biyu, Dean zai bi sawun. Sun sami damar yin taro tare da tsoffin membobin daga baya don wani rikodin, "Shida", wanda aka saki a cikin 1973.
Ba da daɗewa ba bayan fitowar wannan fayafai, Hopper ya fita da Roy Babbington, wanda ke da ƙarfi a bass ɗin lantarki, an saka shi a wurinsa. Lissafin yanzu sun hada da Mike Rutledge, Roy Babbington, Karl Jenkins da John Marshall. A shekarar 1973 sun yi rikodin CD na studio "Bakwai".
An saki kundi na gaba a cikin 1975 a ƙarƙashin sunan "Bundles", wanda sabon mawallafin guitar Alan Holdsworth ya ƙirƙira. Shi ne ya sanya na'urarsa ta tsakiya ga duka sautin. A shekara mai zuwa, John Edgeridge ya ɗauki wurinsa kuma ya saki faifan "Softs". Bayan ya fita daga Soft Machine, na ƙarshe na masu kafa, Rutledge, ya fita.
Sa'an nan kuma aka gayyaci mawaƙa da yawa zuwa ƙungiyar: bass guitarist Steve Cook, Alan Wakeman - saxophone, da Rick Sanders - violin. Sabon layin ya haifar da albam mai suna "Rayuwa da Lafiya", duk da haka, sauti da salon gaba ɗaya ba su kasance iri ɗaya da na da ba.
An dawo da sautin na'ura mai laushi da salo na gargajiya tare da '81 Land of Cockayne tare da Jack Bruce, Alan Holdsworth da Dick Morris akan saxophone. Daga baya, Jenkins da Marshall sun shiga cikin kide-kide na ƙungiyar ba tare da damar zama a cikin ƙungiyar ba.
Rukuni yanzu
An fitar da duk rikodi daga kide-kiden kide kide da wake-wake na kungiyar ta hanya daya ko wata ta hanyoyi daban-daban tun daga 1988. A cikin 2002, akwai yawon shakatawa mai suna "Soft Works" wanda ke nuna Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Marshall da Allan Holdsworth.
Ƙungiyar ta canza suna zuwa "Soft Machine Legacy" a cikin 2004, kuma ta yi rikodin wasu albam guda huɗu a cikin salon da aka saba da shi. "Live in Zaandam", "Soft Machine Legacy", "Rayuwa a Sabon Safiya" da "Steam" ya zama kyakkyawan ci gaba na tsoffin al'adun wannan rukunin.
Graham Bennett ya buga littafinsa a cikin 2005. Ya bayyana rayuwa da aikin fitacciyar ƙungiyar mawaƙa.
