Mike Ratledge

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1971-2000

Oslo 1971

11/3/1971, Soft Machine, Paris Theatre, London, BBC In Concert recording

Cover of BBC Radio One Live in Concert CD

1. Blind Badger (Dean) - Elton Dean Quintet
2. Neo-Caliban Grides (Dean)
3. Out-Bloody-Rageous-Eamonn Andrews-All White-Kings And Queens (Ratledge/Hopper)
4. Teeth-Pigling Bland (Ratledge)
5. Noisette (Hopper)
1.: Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello; Mark Charig - cornet; Mike Ratledge - elc. piano, organ; Neville Whitehead - contrabass; Phil Howard - drums
2-5.: Mike Ratledge - elc. piano, organ; Hugh Hopper - bass; Robert Wyatt - drums; Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, elc. piano
Plus on 2:: Phil Howard - drums
Plus on 4-5: The Heavy Friends: Mark Charig - cornet; Paul Niemann - trombone; Ronnie Scott - tenor sax; Roy Babbington - contrabass

Broadcast 26/03/1971

released as BBC Radio One Live In Concert (Windsong 03/1993 CD)

Cover of Virtually (Cuneiform)

23/3/1971, Soft Machine, Gondel Filmkunst Theater, Bremen, Germany

1. Facelift (Hopper)
2. Virtually (Hopper)
3. Slightly All The Time (Ratledge)
4. Fletcher's Blemish (Dean)
5. Neo-Caliban Grides (Dean)
6. Out-Bloody-Rageous (Ratledge)
7. Eamonn Andrews (Ratledge)
8. All White (Ratledge)
9. Kings & Queens (Hopper)
10. Teeth (Ratledge)
11. Pigling Bland (Ratledge): Robert Wyatt - drums; Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano; Hugh Hopper - bass; Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello

released as Virtually (Cuneinform 1/1998 CD)

5/1971, Elton Dean, Advision Studios, London, sessions for "Elton Dean" LP

1. Ooglenovastrome

2. Something Passed Me By

3. Blind Badger

4. Neo-Caliban Grides

5. Part : The Last

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, electric piano

Mark Charig - cornet

Neville Whitehead - bass

Phil Howard - drums

Mike Ratledge - electric piano, organ

Roy Babbington - double bass

released as Elton Dean (CBS 1971 LP). The CD release (by Cuneiform on September 8th 1998) will be called Just Us

Mike end of 1971 (from "Wrong Movements")

1/6/1971, Soft Machine, Maida Vale, London, BBC Top Gear recording

1. Neo-Caliban Grides (Dean)
2. Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening (Hopper)
3. Eamonn Andrews/All White (Ratledge)
1 & 3.: Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello; Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano; Hugh Hopper - bass; Robert Wyatt - drums
2.: Robert Wyatt - voice, piano

Broadcast 26/06/1971

tracks 1 & 2 released on Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit 10/1990 LP/CD)

15/11/1971, Soft Machine, Maida Vale, London, BBC Top Gear recording

1. Drop

2. As If

3. Welcome to Frillsville

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello

Phil Howard - drums

tracks 1-2 released on The Peel Sessions (Strange Fruit 10/1990 LP/CD)

16/11/1971, Soft Machine, BBC Sound of the Seventies Session

1. From A Work In Progress

2. As If/Pigling Bland

3. Neo-Caliban Grides

4. All White

5. Slightly All The Time

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello

Phil Howard - drums

unreleased recording

22-24/11/1971, 7/12/1971, 21-25/2/1972, Soft Machine, Advision Studios, London, sessions for "5" LP

1. All White

2. Drop

3. MC

4. As If

5. LBO

6. Pigling Bland

7. Bone

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

Phil Howard - drums on 1-3

John Marshall - drums on 4-7

Roy Babbington - double bass on 4-7

released as 5 (CBS 1972 LP - Columbia/One Way CD)

Cover of Live in France 2CD

2/5/1972, Soft Machine, Olympia, Paris, France

1. Plain Tiffs

2. All White

3. Slightly All The Time

4. Drop

5. M.C.

6. Out-Bloody-Rageous

7. Facelift

8. And Sevens

9. As If

10. L.B.O.

11. Pigling Bland

12. At Sixes

Elton Dean - alto sax, saxello, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

released as Live In France (One Way 1995 CD)

11/7/1972, Soft Machine, BBC Peel Session

1. Stumble/LBO/As If

2. Fanfare/All White/Me/Drop

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

unreleased recording

20/7/1972, Soft Machine, Paris Theatre London, BBC in Concert Recording

1. Fanfare

2. All White

3. Slightly All The Time

4. M.C.

5. Drop

6. Stumble

7. L.B.O.

8. As If

9. Riff

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

released as BBC Radio One Live In Concert (Windsong 1994 CD)

17/10/1972, Soft Machine, BBC Sound of the Seventies Recording

1. The Soft Weed Factor

2. Fanfare/All White/Between/Riff

3. Ceseureht/EPV/Stumble

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

unreleased recording

20/10/1972, Soft Machine, Dome, Brighton
11/11/1972, Soft Machine, Guildford

1. Fanfare

2. All White

3. Between

4. Riff

5. 37½

6. Gesolreut

7. E.P.V.

8. Lefty

9. Stumble

10. 5 From 13 (For Phil Seamen With Love & Thanks)

11. Riff II

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

released on 'Six' Album (CBS 1973 LP - Columbia/One Way CD)

11-12/1972, Soft Machine, CBS Studio, London, sessions for "Six" LP

1. The Soft Weed Factor

2. Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album (For B.O.)

3. Chloe And The Pirates

4. 1983

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

released on 'Six' Album (CBS 1973 - Columbia/One Way CD)

29/12/1972, Soft Machine, BBC, TV Full House recording

tracks unknown

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, keyboards, electric piano

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano

Hugh Hopper - bass

John Marshall - drums

unreleased recording

Cover of Bananamour CD

12/1972 (?), Kevin Ayers, Abbey Road, sessions for "Bananamour" LP

1. Don't Let It Get You Down
2. Shouting In A Bucket Blues
3. When Your Parents Go To Sleep
4. Interview
5. Internotional Anthem
6. Decadence
7. Oh! Wot A Dream
8. Hymn
9. Beware Of The Dog: Kevin Ayers - guitar, vocals; Archie Leggett - bass, harmony vocals, lead vocal on 3; Eddie Sparrow - drums, percussion; Ronnie Price - piano; Doris Troy, Liza Strike, Barry St. John - backing vocals; Steve Hillage - lead guitar on 2; Mike Ratledge - organ on 4; Robert Wyatt - harmony vocals on 8; David Bedford - arrangements of 9; Howie Casey - tenor sax; Dave Caswell - trumpet; Lyle Jenkins - baritone sax; Tristram Fry - cymbal

released as Bananamour (Harvest 4/5/1973 LP - Beat Goes On CD)

11/4/1973, Kevin Ayers, BBC Session, Bob Harris Show

1. Interview

2. Oh, Wot A Dream

Kevin Ayers - vocals, guitar

Mike Ratledge - organ on 1

Archie Leggett - bass

Eddie Sparrow - drums

released on First Show In Appearance (Band Of Joy 1996 CD)

Mike from 1973 "Seven" LP insert

7/1973, Soft Machine, Columbia Studios, London, sessions for "Seven" LP

1. Nettle Bed

2. Carol Ann

3. Day's Eye

4. Bone Fire

5. Tarabos

6. D.I.S.

7. Snodland

8. Penny Hitch

9. Block

10. Down The Road

11. The German Lesson

12. The French Lesson

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano, synthesizer

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, recorder, electric piano

Roy Babbington - bass, double bass

John Marshall - drums, percussion

released as Seven (CBS 1973 LP - Columbia/One Way CD)

30/10/1973, Soft Machine, BBC, Peel Session

1. Stanley Stamp's Gibbon Album

2. Hazard Profile

3. Down The Road

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano, synthesizer

Karl Jenkins - oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, recorder, electric piano

Roy Babbington - bass, double bass

John Marshall - drums, percussion

unreleased recording

30/11/1973, Mike Oldfield, BBC TV Studios, Shepherds Bush (Second House BBC Performance).

1. Tubular Bells (Part 1)

John Field - flute

Fred Frith - bass, guitar

John Greaves - keyboards

Steve Hillage - guitar

Tim Hodgkinson - keyboards

Karl Jenkins - oboe

Geoff Leigh - flute

Pierre Moerlen - percussion

Mike Oldfield - bass, guitar

Terry Oldfield - flute

Mike Ratledge - keyboards

Mick Taylor - guitar

Ted Speight - guitar, bass

Tom Newman - voice

+ Choir

Released on Elements (Virgin 2004 DVD)

Cover of Ayers' Confessions of Dr. Dream

Sometime in 1974 (?), Kevin Ayers, Air and Ramport Studios, London, sessions for "The Confession Of Dr. Dream" LP

1. Day By Day

2. See You Later

3. Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought of You

4. Everybody's Sometime & Some People's All the Time Blues

5. It Begins With A Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With A Curse

6. Ballbearing Blues

7. The Confessions Of Dr. Dream including:

a. Irreversible Neural Damage

b. Invitation

c. The One Change Dance

d. Dr. Dream Theme

8. Two Goes Into Four

Kevin Ayers - vocals, guitar

Mark Warner, Sam Mitchell, Ollie Halsall, Mike Oldfield, Cal Batchelor - guitar

John G Perry, John Gustafson, Trevor Jones - bass

Rupert Hine, Henry Crallan, Mike Moran, Steve Nye - keyboards

Lol Coxhill - sax

Nico - vocals

Doris Troy, Rosetta Hightower, Joanne Williams, Sean Milligan, The Hulloo Choir - backing vocals

Mike Giles - drums

The G'Deevy Ensemble, Ray Cooper - percussion

Mike Ratledge - organ on 7d

Geoff Richardson - violin

released as The Confessions Of Dr. Dream And Other Stories (Island 5/1974 LP - Beat Goes On CD)

Soft Machine in 1974 (ltr. Karl Jenkins, Allan Holdsworth, Mike, Roy Babbington, John Marshall).
From Bundles insert.

7/1974, Soft Machine, sessions for "Bundles" LP

1. Hazard Profile parts 1-5

2. Gone Sailing

3. Bundles

4. Land Of The Bag Snake

5. Peff

6. Four Gongs Two Drums

7. The Floating World

Mike Ratledge - organ, electric piano, synthesizer

Karl Jenkins - oboe, piano, soprano sax, electric piano

Allan Holdsworth - guitar

Roy Babbington - bass

John Marshall - drums, percussion

Ray Warleigh - flutes on 7

released as Bundles (Harvest 1975 LP - See For Miles/One Way CD)

3/1976, Soft Machine, Abbey Road Studios, London, sessions for "Softs" LP

1. Aubade

2. The Tale Of Taliesin

3. Ban Ban Caliban

4. Song Of Aeolus

5. Out Of Season

6. Second Bundle

7. Kayoo

8. The Camdem Tandem

9. Nexus

10. One Over The Eight

11. Etika

Karl Jenkins - piano, electric piano, synthesizer

Alan Wakeman - soprano sax, tenor sax

John Etheridge - guitar

Roy Babbington - bass

John Marshall - drums, percussion

Mike Ratledge - synthesizer

released as Softs (Harvest 1976 LP - See For Miles/One Way CD)

Sometime early 1977, David Bedford, Worcester Cathedral & Workhouse Studio, sessions for "Instructions For Angels" LP

1. Theme

1.Variation 1: Wanderers of the Pale Wood, Part 1

2. Variation 2: Wanderers of the Pale Wood, Part 2

3. Variation 3: The Dazzling Burden

4. Variation 4: Be Music, Night

5. Variation 5: First Came The Lion Rider

6. Variation 6: Instructions for Angels

7. Finale: The Valley-Sleeper, The Children, The Snakes And The Giant

David Bedford - keyboards, piano, percussion

Mike Oldfield - guitar

Mike Ratledge - synthesizer on 5

Jeff Bryant - horn

Mick Baines - horn

Robin Davies - horn

Jim Douglas - oboe

Sophie Dickson - vocals

Diana Coulson - vocals

Jennifer Angel - flute

Julia Fogel - flute

Celia Hutchinson - flute

Mary Rose Lillingston - flute

Fiona Lofts - flute

released as Instructions For Angels (Virgin 1977 LP - Voiceprint CD)

4/1978, Planet Earth, sessions for "Planet Earth" LP

1. Rocket Man

2. Spaceboogie

3. Across the Universe

4. Telstar

5. Doctor Who

6. You Are My Starship

7. My Galactic Hero

8. Andromeda

Ron Aspery - sax

Colin Green - guitar

Kevin Peek - guitar

Karl Jenkins - keyboards

Mike Ratledge - keyboards

Trevor Barton - keyboards

Billy Kristian - bass

Barry Morgan - drums

Tristan Fry - percussion

released as Planet Earth (Pye 1978 LP)

Sometime in 1978, David Bedford, Henry Wood Hall & Basing Street Studios, London, sessions for "Star Clusters Nebulae & Places In Devon / The Song Of The White Horse" LP (?)

1. Star Lusters, Nebulae & Places in Devon

2. The Song of the White Horse

David Bedford - keyboard

Mike Ratledge - keyboard

London Philarmonic Orchestra

Queen's College Choir

released as Star Clusters Nebulae & Places In Devon / The Song Of The White Horse (Oldfield Records 1983 LP)

Sometime in 1979 (?), Rubba, sessions for "Push Button'" LP

track titles unknown

Karl Jenkins - synthesizer

Mike Ratledge - synthesizer

released as Push Button (Music De Wolfe 1979 LP?)

Sometime in 1980, Rollercoaster, Pye Studios, London, sessions for "Wonderin'" LP

1. I wish (Stevie Wonder)

2. Reggae woman (Stevie Wonder)

3. Higher ground (Stevie Wonder)

4. Superstition (Stevie Wonder)

5. Mr. W. (Karl Jenkins)

6. Living for the city (Stevie Wonder)

Ray Warleigh - alto sax

Dick Morrisey - tenor sax

Derek Watkins - trumpet

Chris Pyne - trombone

Alan Parker - guitar

Karl Jenkins - synthesizer

Mike Ratledge - synthesizer

Mike Pyne - piano

Ron Matthewson - bass

Barry Morgan - drums

released as Wonderin'(Castle/Calibre 1980 LP)

Sometimes in the late 80s, Jenkins/Ratledge, sessions for commercials

1. Island Universe

2. Polar Aspect

3. Sci-Fly

4. Orb of Day

5. Holiday Rag

6. Mango Tango

7. Hoogie Boogie Blues

8. Roll It

9. Skyscape

10. Galactic Wheel

11. Breakthrough Buzz

12. Night of the Wolf

13. Willie Wedge

14. Captain Groover

15. Hot Butter

16. Fine Bunch

17. Morning Room

18. Afternoon Tea

19. Final Touch

20. Proposal

21. Lydia

22. Night Train to Trieste

23. Amourette

24. Silver Shadow

25. Flageolet Fancy

26. Bobby Dazzler

27. Bubble and Bounce

28. Reggie's Reggae

29. Fantrill

30. Hot Flash

31. Global Report

32. Day Despatch

33. Rose Garden

34. Landfall

35. Bali Bali

36. Meadow Day

37. To the Mark

38. Elastic Stretch

39. Agrophobia

40. Kix

41. Arena

42. Prelude Imperial

43. Expansion X

44. Corona Connection

45. Ripstitch Rhumba

46. Calypso Caper

47. Shufflin'

48. Swing Bin

49. Lunar Vantage

50. Megabyte

51. Arctic Flow

52. Red Shift

53. Honey Pot

54. Grand Funk City

55. Grunt

56. Cocktail Lounge

57.Country Mellow

58.Little Mike's Bar

59.Sasha

60. Orange Voyage

61. Star Orbit

62. Star Ray

63. Daisy

64. Slapstix

65. Six Gun

66. Rustic Gave Up

67. Jonah

68. 24th Precinct

69. Hazard Patrol

70. Get It On

71. Firebird

72. Trans-Europe Express

73. Red Roses

74. Early Days

75. Home Ways

76. White Lady

77. Left Back

78. Beechers Brook

79. Trigger Trot

80. Buggy Bounce

Karl Jenkins - keyboards (?)

Mike Ratledge - keyboards (?)

released as Cuts for Commercials Vol. 3 (De Wolfe Records 1989 CD)

Adiemus 1995 (ltr. Karl Jenkins, Mike,
Miriam Stockley). Source unknown

Sometime in 1995 (?), Adiemus, Angel Studios, Islington, London, sessions for "Songs Of Sanctuary" CD

1. Adiemus

2. Tintinnabulum

3. Cantus Inaequalis

4. Cantus Insolitus

5. In Caelum Fero

6. Cantus Iteratus

7. Amate Adea

8. Kayama

9. Hymn

Karl Jenkins - conductor

Mike Ratledge - percussion programming

Miriam Stockley - vocals

Mary Carewe - vocals

Frank Ricotti - percussion

Jody Barratt Jenkins - percussion

Mike Taylor - quena

Pamela Thorby - recorder

The London Philharmonic Orchestra

released as Songs Of Sanctuary (Virgin 10/10/1995 CD)

Adiemus 1995 (ltr. Karl Jenkins, Miriam Stockley) and Mike.
Source unknown

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