Discobelle.net — Munich based producer This Soft Machine (AKA Tim Sullivan) is getting ready to release his new single “It’s Operational” via Belgian label Eskimo Recordings on June 3rd and this week he’s in Sweden for his first ever dj dates here. He put tog... more info

Stereogum — After we lost the legendary free jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman to cardiac arrest last week, Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt published an obituary commemorating the late musician in The Wire. Wyatt’s piece isn’t remorseful so much as celebratory;... more info

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L.A. Times - Entertainment — Daevid Allen, the influential poet, musician and iconoclast best known for co-founding avant-rock bands the Soft Machine and Gong, has died, according to an announcement on his Facebook page. Allen, 77, died after complications from cancer. more info

Brooklyn Vegan — And so dada Ali, bert camembert, the dingo Virgin, divided alien and his other 12 selves prepare to pass up the oily way and back to the planet of love. And I rejoice and give thanks," he wrote. "Thanks to... more info

Stereogum — The Guardian reports that the psych-rock originator Daevid Allen, the co-founder of Soft Machine and the founder of Gong, has died after a battle with lung cancer. One of Allen’s sons made the announcement on Facebook; Allen was reportedly at home ... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Our ongoing collaboration with Zach Cowie, aka Turquoise Wisdom, returns in 2015 with a myriad of sounds ranging from Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt to the divinity that is Alice Coltrane’s Rama Rama. Tune in and turn on Friday as Cowie guests on ou... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Bill Pearis San Francisco songwriter Dylan Shearer makes the sort of somber pop that sounds like rain. There's a distinct Englishness to it, too, that has drawn comparisons to Soft Machine's Kevin Ayers and Robert Wyatt and that is... more info