In 2006 Wyatt collaborated with Steve Nieve and Muriel Teodori on the opera Welcome to the Voice interpreting the character ‘the Friend’, both singing and playing pocket trumpet. He sang and played cornet and percussion with David Gilmour on Gilmour’s album On an Island, and read passages from the novels of Haruki Murakami for Max Richter’s album Songs from Before. In 2004 Wyatt collaborated with Bjֳork on the song “Submarine” which was released on her fifth album Medֳulla. The concerts raised a reported ֲ£10,000 for Wyatt. On 4 November that year, Pink Floyd performed two benefit concerts, in one day, at London’s Rainbow Theatre, supported by Soft Machine, and compered by John Peel. He was paralysed from the waist down and consequently uses a wheelchair. The band were about to embark on the recording of a third album when, on 1 June 1973, during a party for Gong’s Gilli Smyth and June Campbell Cramer (also known as Lady June) at the latter’s Maida Vale home, an inebriated Wyatt fell from a fourth-floor window. A year later, Wyatt left Soft Machine and, besides participating in the fusion bigband Centipede and drumming at the JazzFest Berlin’s New Violin Summit, a live concert with violinists Jean-Luc Ponty, Don “Sugarcane” Harris, Michaֵ‚ Urbaniak and Nipso Brantner, guitarist Terje Rypdal, keyboardist Wolfgang Dauner and bassist Neville Whitehead, formed his own band Matching Mole (a pun, “machine molle” being French for ‘Soft Machine’), a largely instrumental outfit that recorded two albums.
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