Reel Recordings, as their website will tell you, are new kids on the block who are in the habit of remastering old concerts by using a “minimalist chain of tonally neutral hi-end components” which incorporate “vintage tube buffering”.
In 1970, as part of one of the Hyde Park Free Concerts, which culminated in Pink Floyd performing Atom Heart Mother in its entirety, Kevin Ayers and his new band battered the crowd with a set of his own tunes and a couple of Soft Machine gems, Did It Again and Why Are We Sleeping, thrown in for good measure. He therefore created The Whole World, with such luminaries as Robert Wyatt, Lol Coxhill and a young Mike Oldfield.
After the comparatively sensible and now rightly trumpeted solo album, Kevin Ayers clearly longed for the musical maelstrom that he had enjoyed in Soft Machine.
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