Soft Machine

Soft Machine - Hope for happiness
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Soft Machine was formed in 1966 by Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers and Daevid Allen. Wyatt had already worked with Allen in the Daevid Allen Trio (which Ratledge occasionally jammed with) in 1963, and with Ayers in the Wilde Flowers in 1964. Although the band had its roots in Canterbury, it soon became a London-based band.

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my mask is my master;

Wiki article is about the rock band:
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The Soft Machine (album)
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The Soft Machine, as reissue also titled "Volume One", is the debut album by the British psychedelic rock band Soft Machine, one of the central bands in the Canterbury scene. The band, founded in 1966, recorded and released this studio album during their 1968 tour of the USA. It was produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson.

« Marie-Mathématique »

SERGE GAINSBOURG
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Diffusée à partir du 28 octobre 1965, « Marie-Mathématique » est une série de six films d'animation noir et blanc de cinq minutes, qui met en scène la première héroïne TV de science-fiction. Les lyrics interprétés par Serge Gainsbourg (et écrits dans une forme fixe ancienne, le virelai, par l'écrivain André Ruellan, beau-frère de Forest) participent pleinement à la réussite de cette adaptation de BD à la TV

Jean-Claude Forest
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En 1964, il partage avec Remo Forlani la rédaction en chef du journal Chouchou et crée "Bébé Cyanure" et écrit "Les Naufragés du Temps" pour Gillon. Après avoir produit un photo-roman pour Plexus (Les Magiciennes), et tandis que les droits cinématographiques de Barbarella sont achetés par le producteur Dino de Laurentiis (Jane Fonda sera Barbarella et Vadim réalisera le film), Forest écrit, dessine et coréalise pour l'émission TV, Dim Dam Dom, Marie Mathématique. C'est une comédie musicale en papier découpé animé. Gainsbourg chante les lyriques dont il a écrit la musique sur des paroles d'Adré Ruellan.Vadim réalise Barbarella à Rome. Forest dessine la plupart des décors. Le film sort en juin 1968.

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By many, Jean-Claude Forest is considered the father of the adult comics, because of Barbarella. It could be called the forerunner of both erotic and adult comic art. The series became so famous that Roger Vadim made it into a movie - which itself became cult classic. Also in 1962, Forest became artistic director of the C.B.D. (Club des Bandes Dessinées).

Editor-in-chief of Chouchou magazine since 1964, Forest created 'Bébé Cyanure' and wrote 'Les Naufragés du Temps (art by Paul Gillon) for the magazine. He developed 'Marie Mathématique' for the Dim Dam Dom television series in 1965 and produced the photo novel 'Le Magiciennes' in Plexus. He returned to Vaillant publishers in the early 1970s and created 'Mystérieuse, Matin, Midi et Soir' and an adaptation of Jules Verne's 'L'Île Mysterieuse' in Pif Gadget. At the same time, he created 'Hypocrite' for France-Soir and later Pilote, a series that featured another erotic heroin. Forest also began working for television and writing poems and songs. In addition, he drew 'Les Contes de la Barque Saoule' in Métal Hurlant and Fluide Glacial.

He worked for À Suivre since the magazine's first issue in February 1978. There, he wrote the scenarios of 'Roman de Renart' (art by Max Cabanes) and 'Ici Même' (art by Jacques Tardi) and drew several comics of his own. In 1981, he wrote a final episode of 'Barbarella', published in L'Écho des Savanes and this time drawn by Daniel Billon. In the late 1980s, he came in charge of the comics section of Okapi magazine. After writing the novel 'Lilia entre l'Air et de l'Eau', he wrote the long comic 'Il Faut y Croire pour le Voir' (about 100 pages, drawn by Alain Bignon) for the Long Courrier collection of the publishing house Dargaud.