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Rock Bottom

Disciplines:
music/experimental music
rock music/progressive rock

Summary

Robert Wyatt's 1974 album recorded after he became wheelchair-bound, regarded as one of the finest experimental albums in British rock.

Core Contribution

Contains the Shepard tone in 'A Last Straw', representing transformation of physical catastrophe into artistic experimentation.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Canterbury Sound British experimental rock

Allied Works

A Last Straw Echoes

Contemporaries & Peers

Berlin For Your Pleasure

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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