SCARCE 1973 PROMO Orig ROBERT WYATT Rock Bottom SOFT MACHINE Prog CANTURBURY
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ORIGINAL 1973 FIRST PRESS PROMOTIONAL COPY
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ROBERT WYATT
" ROCK BOTTOM "
USA - VIRGIN RECORDS - VR 13112
RARE ... ADVANCED RELEASE PROMOTIONAL ....
The first ROBERT WYATT album, just after leaving Soft Machine & Matching Mole ...
original printed inner sleeve IS included
In the middle of 1973 Robert Wyatt co-fonder of SOFT MACHINE fell out of a window and broke his backbone, during a party. For a drummer you can imagine, a profoundly change in life was in order, including general and musical life. After this event he concentrated on playing piano and organ as well as various percussion instruments. But the main part of his music for sure is his beautiful voice. Rock Bottom is the first album after this momentous event. Various popular progressive musicians supported him on this album and encouraged him to go on. Featured are amongst others Mike Oldfield and Richard Sinclair of Caravan.
Rock Bottom overall is an outstandingly unique complex-infused prog rock album from the Canterbury UK scene.
The album starts off with the luxurious and almost otherworldly "Sea Song", with beautiful lyrics related to the sea (as with most of the album), an intriguing piano break in the middle, and ending with Wyatt's emotional vocals calling out.
The following song "A Last Straw" has a similar feel to the earlier song, but takes a couple more listens to fully grasp the greatness of the song. With possibly an even has a better musical atmosphere than "Sea Song", "A Last Straw" is overall another great song. This then becomes "Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road", with an indescribable mildly chaotic melancholy jazz feel.
Starting the second side of the album, the beautiful "Alifib" enters with soft tunes for the intro, followed by sombre (in a good way) and intricate lyrics. The song morphs into the sort of evil twin of a song "Alifie", with excellent squeaking winds and Robert's extraordinarily unhuman voice uttering the same, thought-provoking lyrics. Elsewhere, the majestic highlight "Little Red ROBIN Hood Hit The Road", with all the brilliance of previous songs as well as Mike Oldfield's screaming guitars rolling around the song. This is definitely more of a rock song than the previous works within. The song is incredibly British, right from the start of the lyrics: "In The Garden Of England" and with Ivor Cutler's Scottish brogue addressing the lyrics, adding more diversity and flavour to the album, as well as his concertina. The song is abruptly interrupted by a laugh that means the end of the album has come...
"Rock Bottom" is a timeless Canterbury classic and a masterpiece of this genre. A terrific journey through Wyatt's psyche. It is mainly settled, calm and very melancholic. Wyatt's voice is for sure the main part of this release but you also get beautiful instrumentation which is very Canterbury typical.
Sea Song (6:31)
A Last Straw (5:46)
Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road (7:38)
Alifib (6:55)
Alife (6:31)
Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road (6:08)
CONDITION: The cover: rated: M- has a promo sticker on front cover, all around strong copy especially when the white cover would usually (IF) found with dirt and soil, so her a clean collection worthy survivor from 43 years past ... there are no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...
The vinyl: Rated: M- TOP COPY Clean and glossy playing with very enjoyable sharp audio ...play back should not reveal alarming distracting surface problems ... both VIRGIN labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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