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Soft Head: Elton Dean (alto sax), Alan Gowen (keyboards, synthesizer), Hugh Hopper (electric bass) and Dave Sheen (drums). From the album Rogue Element (1978).

Hopper also joined the Brainville quartet, which toured Europe and the United States, featured in The Children’s Crusade (1999) and continued to play with it during the next decade. Throughout the 2000s he released several works with independent labels and collaborated with other musicians. In 2002 PolySoft met again and he played with them at Le Triton club in Paris, resulting in Tribute to Soft Machine, which also includes Elton Dean. That same year founded Soft Works with former Soft Machine members Dean (alto sax and saxello), Allan Holdsworth (electric guitar) and John Marshall (drums), which toured three times and recorded Abracadabra (2003), and in 2003 he published Jazzloops using tape loops with computer technology.

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In 2004 John Etheridge replaced Holdsworth and they called the band Soft Machine Legacy, which released Live in Zaandam (2005), Soft Machine Legacy (2006) and Live at the New Morning (2006), which was the last one Dean participated in due to his decease, being succeeded by saxophonist and flutist Theo Travis. This new formation published Steam (2007) and then toured Europe. In addition, Hopper played sporadically with the French group Soft Bounds, which also did a concert at Le Triton collected on an album, and joined Clear Frame, an improvisational band that performed at the London Jazz Festival. In 2007 Hopper appeared in the Delta Saxophone Quartet tribute to Soft Machine Dedicated to You But You Were not Listening (2007) and released Numero d’Vol (2007) in quartet.

Hugh Hopper

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In 2008 he recorded the avant-garde album Dune with singer, keyboardist and composer Yumi Hara Cawkwell, in which he is daring and innovative. While Cawkwell offers the ethereal quality of his wordless chants with a free conception of time, Hopper mixes his electric bass lines with electronic passages and tape loops. Hugh Hopper died in 2009 of leukemia after a year of chemotherapy treatment at the age of 64. In 2014 and 2015, Gonzo Multimedia launched 10 CDs with unpublished live and studio recordings.

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