I have been vaguely aware of Karl Jenkins as a "currently living classical-style composer", mostly of this sort of thing -
But, until today, I was not aware of his past in Soft Machine - although, not everybody seems to have approved of his work for them at the time.
Some of his stuff was played this morning on an oddly interesting show - it's on on the weekend mornings here and covers generally 'classical' items, presented by a well-travelled chap, who intersperses the tunes with stories about relevant places, mostly European and North and South American cities. The reasons for his travels were his other job, as a football commentator - it does actually make it all a bit more interesting.