I can't forsake you, Or forsqueak you
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
An album recorded just a year after Wyatt's accident, in which he works through his experience and tries to invert the stylistic norms of jazz-rock-fusion and comes up with a work that is widely considered both brilliant and harrowing.
I'd first heard this album when a mate had lent me the CD a few days before my dad died and I played it a lot through that time, finding it the perfect musical expression of my feelings. I can still feel that lurch in my gut when I play it now; side one especially. Oddly enough, I find side two offers a bit of soothing resolution. It always makes me feel like crying.
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