A Short Break

VINYL FORMAT. On clear green vinyl! As the original drummer for Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt played a fundamental role in bringing the sixties British psychedelic scene in a more interesting and experimental direction. A man with a strong character Wyatt soon left Soft Machine to form his own band, Matching Mole (a pun on machine molle, French for "soft machine"), but a fall from a third story window in the early seventies left him paralyzed from the waist down, effectively ending his drumming career. This did not stop Wyatt, however, who continued recording as a solo artist. A Short Break, an EP originally released in 1996 features Wyatt on piano, percussion, organ and vocals. The songs are intimate and melancholy. A glimpse into Wyatt's private and complex world of ideas and music.