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Malcolm Dome

“We got back together after 25 years and people came from all around the world, saying how important that album had been”: The Dutch quartet inspired by just five minutes of Soft Machine music

Supersister.

Supersister – no, not another Girls Aloud wannabe group – were among the most innovative and original bands of the early prog era. And their debut album, Present From Nancy, has become iconic since its release in 1970.

“We never realised just what it meant until about 10 years ago,” keyboard player/vocalist Robert Jan Stips told Prog in 2009. “We got back together in 1999 for the first time in 25 years, to play Progfest in Los Angeles. We were amazed that people came to see us from all around the world. Everyone kept saying how important that album had been.”

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