ROBERT WYATT Rock Bottom Original UK LP - Soft Machine Matching Mole Ivor Cutler

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ROBERT WYATT

Rock Bottom

Original UK LP released on Virgin Records in 1974.
'Pinched spine' sleeve.
Colour 'dragon/twins' labels.

V 2017 A-2U   1   H   /   V 2017 B-1U   1   GG

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Rock Bottom, recorded with a star-studded cast of Canterbury musicians, has been deservedly acclaimed as one of the finest art rock albums. Several forces surrounding Wyatt's life helped shape its outcome. First, it was recorded after the former Soft Machine drummer and singer fell out of a five-storey window and broke his spine. Legend had it that the album was a chronicle of his stay in the hospital. Wyatt dispels this notion in the book Wrong Movements: A Robert Wyatt History. Much of the material was composed prior to his accident in anticipation of rehearsals of a new lineup of Matching Mole. The writing was completed in the hospital, where Wyatt realized that he would now need to sing more, since he could no longer be solely the drummer.

Many of Rock Bottom's songs are very personal and introspective love songs, since he would soon marry Alfreda Benge. Benge suggested to Wyatt that his music was too cluttered and needed more open spaces. Therefore, Robert Wyatt not only ploughed new ground in songwriting territory, but he presented the songs differently, taking time to allow songs like "Sea Song" and "Alifib" to develop slowly. Previous attempts at love songs, like "O Caroline," while earnest and wistful, were very literal and lyrically clumsy.

Rock Bottom was Robert Wyatt's most focused and relaxed album up to its time of release. In 1974, it won the French Grand Prix Charles Cros Record of the Year Award. It is also considered an essential record in any comprehensive collection of psychedelic or progressive rock.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Sea Song
A Last Straw
Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road

Side Two

Alifib
Alifie
Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road

Released on 'Virgin Records' in 1974

Catalogue No. V 2017

Disc is in EX condition (some light surface wear)

Sleeve is in VG+ condition (light shelfwear / smallish rub on rear)

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