The 11th album from this artist from Great Britain.
Robert Wyatt did the percussion, piano, organ, piano, electric piano, bass and vocals on this album.
He got help from three guests, Mike Ratledge (organ), Jimi Hendrix and Hugh Hopper (both bass).
This is an album with archive material, an album he recorded before the release of the very first Soft Machine album. The band had been on tour with Jimi Hendrix, as a support act for Jimi, in USA and Robert took the chance to record this album in a studio in USA before he returned to Great Britain and his daytime job as a drummer in Soft Machine again.
We get four whimsical psych rock tracks here. Two long ones and two short ones. This includes the long, wild version of Moon In June. A song later sanitised and restructured for Soft Machine's legendary classic Third album.
Before this song, which ends this album, we get three improvised songs. Three decent songs. Moon In June is the reason why anyone would get this album, though. That and Robert's vocals. Jimi Hendrix does a decent, yet unremarkable job on bass on one of the songs.
The result is a decent to goo album. I am afraid this is the final album in Robert's discography. A discography which includes the classic album Rock Bottom. An album everyone should have. '68 is a rather forgetable album compared to his first albums. Nevertheless...
2.5 points
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