#63
Newsletter of 1 June 2025: all the news published on the site over the last 4 months.
Next issue: 1 October 2025.

    

     
  Word Of Mouth (15 Recommended New Songs For Autumn 2004) - 2004 (Various Artists)
     
  Now Yearbook '80-'84 (The Final Chapter) - 2022 (Various Artists)
     
  Stelline ft. Libby Leist - Sea Song - 2017 (Reprises)
     
  Autarkic - Terms And Conditions - 2020 (Reprises)
     
  Emi Sounds Aime Tricatel - 2010 (Various Artists)
     
  Orchestra SMS - Musica Sparpagliata - 2025 (Reprises)
     
  Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano - 2023 (Reprises)
     
  Berlin Musicians in Solidarity with Palestine - Loud & Clear - 2025 (Reprises)
     
  Bruce Brubaker - Eno Piano 2 - 2024 (Reprises)
     
  Hatfield And The North - O.R.T.F. January 2, 1973 - 2024 (With Friends)
     
  Stray Signals - Dedicated To Palestine - 2024 (Various Artists)
     
  NkCz - Sea Song (a Robert Wyatt cover) - 2020 (Reprises)
     
  L'esprit Woodstock - 2009 (Various Artists)
     
  Middle Earth - The Soundtrack Of London's Legendary Psychedelic Club 1967-1969
     
  Kevin Ayers - All This Crazy Gift Of Time - The Recordings 1969-1973 - 2024 (With Friends) (Reprises)
     
  Eiko Ishibashi & Tatsuya Yoshida - Slip Beneath The Distant Tree - 2007 (Reprises)
     
  Cloudland Blue Quartet - Variation on Brian Eno's 'Music For Airports' - 2021 (Reprises)
     
  In Dark Trees - Under Cover - 2012 (Reprises)
     
  Ex Norwegian - Something Unreal: The Best Of Ex Norwegian - 2019 (Reprises)
     
  Jet Stream: Autumn Flight - 2003 (Various Artists)
     
    






 

 


Soft Machine man's switch - Melody Maker - July 18, 1970


La résurrection de la douce machine de Robert Wyatt - Mad -17 mars 1999

The Mike Ratledge Interviews - Facelift - N° 2 - September 1999

Rock Bottom, al habla con la directora María Trenor - Ruta 66 - 19 diciembre, 2024

'Matching Mole : the beginning of an other ear' - Time Out - June 16th-22nd 1972

Wyatt Hotel - crisscross-jazz.com - décembre 2010

Soft Machine - Raropiù - N° 71 - Settembre 2019

Soundtrack of my life: Robert Wyatt - The Guardian - 26 October 2014

Mike Ratledge, l'homme-moustache de Soft Machine - Gonzaï - 9 février 2025 in

Io E Robert - Faremusica - N° 202 - 1998

Soft Machine - looking for more complicated musical ideas... - Record Mirror - October 25, 1969

Mike Ratledge 1943-2025 - Rock & Folk - N° 692 - avril 2025

Robert Wyatt. Maestro de maestros - Heraldo de Aragon - 1 de Junio de 2024

New Model Army - Mojo - N° 88 - March 2001

Robert Wyatt: tout ce que vous ne deviniez pas ! - Jazzmania.be - 8 août 2022

La Magia Di Rock Bottom - Prog Italia - Ottobre-Novembre 2024

When In Rome... - Sounds - July 12, 1975




Bill McCormick

Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction
by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings
of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter
and songwriter Alfie Benge.


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Daevid Allen and Robert Wyatt at UFO - 1967


   

 


Robert Wyatt Set, February 3, 2021
   


The Kevin Ayers Story, From 80 years to Infinity, Epitome of a Rock Legend
   

Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening by Adam Minkoff - guitar/vocal
   
Rare Kevin Ayers video (by Bertrand Mérino-Péris)
   
Week Mixtapes Robert Wyatt
   
Visit N° 167 Machine Molle "
   
bonus XYZ : une promo qui cartonne
   






 
I asked a number of people who have contributed to the site to tell me which Robert Wyatt covers (or Soft Machine or Matching Mole covers) they prefer.
Almost all of them replied: "Oh, what a difficult question!" But they all gave me their favourite covers...
 


     
     
     
     
     
     
 

 


A bientôt

Jean-Paul