"On July 4, 1974, Soft Machine were invited to perform at the prestigious
Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, sharing the spotlight with such
headliners as Billy Cobham’s Spectrum, Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House
and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This alone was evidence of the band being a
dominant presence on the now widely popular jazz-rock scene, which had
evolved out of the unique and edgy sound that the band had pioneered a
few years before. Switzerland 1974 is this performance, captured just a couple of weeks before the studio sessions for Bundles. " Cuneiform
