Drury Lane

available in a digipak for the very first time. convening something of a supergroup to play through 'rock bottom' upon its release in 1974, the cast wyatt assembled is testament both to the high regard he has always been held in - along with his natural ability to blur boundaries between such constraints as the mainstream and the avant-garde. here the assorted heavyweights: mike oldfield and pink floyd's nick mason lock with the avant jazz sensibilities of mongezi feza, julie tippetts and fred frith. the result is a glorious sound that frequently edges towards chaos and back with wyatt's scat falsetto soaring above proceedings like a dove. the 'rock bottom' tracks take on a dreamy physical shape, 'alifi b' starts with wyatt miaowing before the band begin turning drury lane into the fillmore west. listening to wyatt and tippetts duetting on 'i'm a believer' as all hell breaks loose around them is to be transported into the front row to witness a very kind of robert wyatt magic.