Soft Mountain

Soft Hill were a task combining the forces of one-time Soft Machine stalwarts Elton Dean (in saxophone) and Hugh Hopper (in bass) with Japan musicians Hoppy Kamiyama (in keyboards) and Tatsuya Yoshida (in drums). On August 10, 2003, they moved into a Tokyo studio room to record two 45-minute models of improvised Soft Machine-styled fusion. Two half-hour excerpts of the recordings comprised their self-titled record, issued within the U.K. in early 2007.