Robert Wyatt U.K PROG MONSTER LP Rock Bottom on Virgin

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Band/Record: LP Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Label/Matrix: 1974 U.K Virgin V 2017 with "tone"

Condition Record/Sleeve: EX/EX- (record a few very light hairlines only, TOP audio.. !! Cover clean and unwritten, with corners only tiny "eaten" and very light wear)

Extra info: U.K PROG MONSTER !!  Mega rare U.K PROG LP on Virgin ....Incredible hard to find record !! Here a great 2nd U.K press on Virgin in TOP condition !! Progressive MASTERPIECE !!

Rock Bottom
Rock Bottom is the second solo album (the first post-Soft Machine) by Robert Wyatt. Although Rock Bottom is technically Wyatt's second solo LP, he has stated in several interviews that he considers its predecessor The End of an Ear as juvenilia and not part of the recognised "canon" of Wyatt solo records.

Preparations were under way for a third Matching Mole album—likely featuring earlier versions of several songs that ended up on Rock Bottom such as "Sea Song"—when, during the course of a raucous party on the night of 1 July 1973, an inebriated Wyatt fell from a fourth-floor window and was seriously injured, permanently losing the use of his legs. Forced by the accident to give up playing drums, Wyatt abandoned the Matching Mole project and instead changed the project into a solo album, more prominently featuring vocals from Wyatt; his time in hospital recuperating from the accident was spent refining and completing the songs which would form the Rock Bottom album. Although the music itself is intense and often harrowing, and the lyrics to the songs are dense and obviously deeply personal, Wyatt has denied that the material was a direct result of the accident and the long period of recuperation. Indeed, much of the album had been written while in Venice in early 1973 prior to Wyatt's accident, where his partner and future wife (the poet Alfreda Benge) was working as an assistant editor on Nicolas Roeg's similarly haunting and intense film "Don't Look Now

Enlisting friends and luminaries such as Fred Frith, Ivor Cutler and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason (who would end up producing the album), Wyatt recorded most of the album shortly after his release from hospital. In the summer of 1974, the album was released to great critical acclaim. Cutler's performance (reciting a semi-nonsensical narrative halfway through "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" and intoning the same poem in a flat baritone voice at the end of "Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road" to close the album) was singled out for its brilliance, which resulted in his being offered a three-album deal with Virgin Records.

Rock Bottom contained six songs, some of which have more traditional song structures (for instance the opening "Sea Song" or "Alifib"), while others are less defined, more expressionist pieces displaying a jazz influence (as in "Alife", or the album's centrepiece "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road"). Side two starts with a medley of sorts ("Alifib/Alife"), with Wyatt first singing and then reciting in a disjointed manner lyrics apparently dedicated to Alfreda Benge, who herself replies with her own vocal retort at the end of "Alifib". The LP closer, "Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road", is divided into two parts; the first is a melodic progressive rock song featuring prominent electric guitars and a chant-like vocal refrain, while the second part—bearing little resemblance to the first—features only a droning harmonium, harshly-scraped violin and guest vocalist Ivor Cutler reciting bizarre lyrics in a monotone voice.

Tracks:
   1. "Sea Song" – 6:31
   2. "A Last Straw" – 5:46
   3. "Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road" – 7:40
   4. "Alifib" – 6:55
   5. "Alife" – 6:31
   6. "Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road" – 6:08

Personnel:
    * Robert Wyatt - Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion, Slide Guitar (2)
    * Mike Oldfield - Guitar (6)
    * Gary Windo - Bass Clarinet & Tenor Sax (4 & 5)
    * Ivor Cutler - Voice (3 & 6), Baritone Concertina (6)
    * Mongezi Feza - Trumpets (3)
    * Fred Frith - Viola (6)
    * Hugh Hopper - Bass (2, 4 & 5)
    * Richard Sinclair - Bass (1, 3 & 6)
    * Laurie Allan - Drums (2 & 6)

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