Hugh Hopper 10 CDs

I have not started buying or listening to the 10 CD series dedicated to unreleased (true for all tracks??) material from Hugh Hopper yet (Gonzo 2014-2015), but at least I have started to check out the info on the net! On Discogs you may find out the track lists and the personnel of each CD.

Robert Wyatt is present on:

- "Memories" on "Memories" Vol.1. (drums)
- "Facelift" (five versions) on "Anatomy of a Facelift" Vol.2. (drums)
- "Was a friend" on "Was a Friend" Vol. 10. (vocals, piano).

And perhaps on "Bass on Top" Vol.8 too! According to Discogs: "..snippets of Robert Wyatt's background vocals were added to the recording by Hugh Hopper, but Wyatt is not credited on the release; it's not 100% sure that recordings of his voice were actually used".

Any reviews around that we should have read?

Michael King R.I.P.

So sad to hear about the death of Michael King.

He was the author of one of my most read books, "Wrong Movements. A Robert Wyatt history" (S.A.F. 1994), and founder of Reel Recordings where he released archival material by Canterbury, prog and jazz artists (Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Lol Coxhill, Elton Dean and so on).

Read more over on "Sid Smith´s Postcards From The Yellow Room" and I guess there will be more reactions on "What´s Rattlin´?" too.