Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
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Artist: Robert WyattEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-06-08
Music Label: Hannibal
Soundtracks:
- Sea Song
- A Last Straw
- Little Red Riding Hood Hit The Road
- Alifib
- Alife
- Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road
Free Music Notes for Rock Bottom
Free Music Review: Most Expressive Voice Ever
Hit: 5 Stars
It's my long-standing belief that Robert Wyatt has the most expressive voice I've ever heard. Even when he's singing made-up nonsense syllables (as he frequently does on this album), the effect is like Italian opera. You don't understand the words, but the emotion is clearly conveyed - and it's not difficult to figure out what's going on. Longing, loss, anger, acceptance - Wyatt's quavery vocal timbre captures it all.
My favorite example of this is "Alifib", on which he pleads and remonstrates with his "larder" Alifib (translation: his lover Alfreda). By turns touching and funny as all-get-out, it has to be heard to be believed. The whole record is like that.
Backed by the premier jazz/rock players of the era, every song is a distinctive dreamscape. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd produced wonderfully. The two veteran drummers understand each other, and Wyatt's drumming is typically stunning. As great a musician as he is - still I come back to the voice. It's unusual for one band (Soft Machine) to produce two such unique singers (the other being Kevin Ayers). Neither Robert or Kevin could ever be mistaken for anyone else once you've heard them.
Many avant-atrocities have been released over the years - enough to give experimentalism a bad name. I'd say "Rock Bottom" is by far the most listenable and entertaining of the bunch. Though sad at times, it's also a very trippy and fun aural experience. Yes, I'll say it again - the album is fun! Enjoy.
Rock Bottom Poster
Robert Wyatt's 1974 masterpiece Rock Bottom is among the most layered, lovely, and luscious pop records ever as well as a testament to survival. As Wyatt explains in the notes, "The night before the new group was to have its first rehearsal, I fell from a fourth floor window and broke my spine." Produced by Nick Mason, the cream of England's vital prog-rock scene contributed their most subtle, least-wanky efforts for their dear friend's solo recording. Ivor Cutler, Fred Frith, Hugh Hopper, and Mike Oldfield shine alongside ethereal singer/songwriter/keyboardist/percussionist Wyatt. The most touching of these playful drone-pop songs appear to detail Wyatt's relationship with his wife/collaborator, Alfreda Benge. "Your lunacy fits neatly with my own," he sings. --Mike McGonigalInternational Music CDs
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