Land of Cockayne may refer to: Cockayne or Cockaigne, a fantastic land of plenty in popular medieval literature Land of Cockayne (poem), part of the 14th-century...
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Land of Cockayne is the tenth studio album by the jazz rock band Soft Machine, released in 1981. The title refers to the medieval land of plenty. It would...
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Kildare Poems (redirect from Land of Cockayne (poem))
Land of Cokaygne: a satirical piece about a corrupt community of monks, who lead a life of fantastic luxury and dissipation in the mythical land of Cockaigne...
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1981 album Land of Cockayne. Soft Machine also briefly reformed for a series of dates at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the summer of 1984, featuring...
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the Blossom: The Anthology Soft Machine Studio: 1975: Bundles 1981: Land of Cockayne 2003: Abracadabra (as Soft Works) Live: 2003: BBC Radio 1971–1974 2006:...
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Karl Jenkins (category Academics of the University of Glamorgan)
Bundles (1975), Softs (1976), Alive & Well: Recorded in Paris (1978) and Land of Cockayne (1981). Jenkins was the group's primary composer on Seven and the subsequent...
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Jack Bruce (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
Land of Cockayne (1981). In 1981, Bruce collaborated with guitarist Robin Trower and released two power trio albums, B.L.T. and Truce, the first of which...
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briefly revived in 1980 for Land of Cockayne. In the summer of 1984, Soft Machine reformed once again for a short run of shows at Ronnie Scott's Jazz...
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Soft Machine discography (category Discographies of British artists)
from Canterbury formed in mid-1966. As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved...
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Hansel and Gretel (redirect from Trail of breadcrumbs)
manuscript about the Land of Cockayne. From the pre-publication manuscript of 1810 (Das Brüderchen und das Schwesterchen) to the sixth edition of Kinder- und Hausmärchen...
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and Larry Nowlin, Soft Machine were one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene and had been staples of the London underground, playing the UFO Club...
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second album by The Soft Machine (although it was their debut in home country of the UK), released in 1969. The album combined humour, dada, psychedelia and...
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Machine, released in 1975. By the time of Bundles, most of Soft Machine's members had previously been part of the jazz-rock band Nucleus, the exception...
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Cockayne is a mythical land of plenty. Cockayne may refer to: Cockayne (surname) Cockayne, North Yorkshire, a hamlet and ridge in North Yorkshire, England...
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Details is the first album released under the Soft Machine moniker since Land of Cockayne in 1981, with a six-night residency at Ronnie Scott's club in 1984...
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copyright date of 1974 (and a phonographic rights date of 1973), suggesting the North American release may have been delayed. It was the last of their studio...
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recorded after the departure of original drummer Robert Wyatt and continued the band's progression away from their original blend of psychedelic and progressive...
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Holdsworth on guitar shortly after the release of the previous album, Bundles, and Alan Wakeman, cousin of Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman, took over saxophone...
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Mike Ratledge (category Alumni of University College, Oxford)
(born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to...
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recorded entirely without any founding members of the band, as Mike Ratledge left the group during recording of the previous album Softs. It is also first...
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with a single composition on each of the four sides, and was the first of two albums recorded with a four-piece line-up of keyboardist Mike Ratledge, drummer...
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a complete abandonment of their original self-presentation as a psychedelic and progressive rock group. It was also the last of their albums to include...
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Cockayne Hatley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley, in the Central Bedfordshire district of...
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Elton Dean. Jenkins eventually became the de facto leader and main composer of the group. The previous two albums had been issued with slightly different...
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April 2024. Worral, Sean (26 August 2016). "ORGAN THING: Sea Nymphs On Dry Land, a first listen to the glorious new album…". Organ. Retrieved 6 November...
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Cockayne is an English surname. The name originates as a joking reference to the Land of Cockaigne, a mythical land of plenty and hedonism which is widely...
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solo on Manfred Mann's "Pretty Flamingo". Dobson also played on a number of sessions for The Small Faces, including their Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake LP, and...
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Matilde Serao (category Italian people of Greek descent)
Il Giorno. Serao was also the co-founder and editor of the newspaper Il Mattino, and the author of several novels. She never won the Nobel Prize in Literature...
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the Rollercoaster musicians later recorded the Soft Machine album, Land of Cockayne, and made up Soft Machine's live line-up which played a six-night residency...
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