Immediate Curtain

"Immediate Curtain" is the final track on the first album of the English rock band Matching Mole, an instrumental piece composed and performed by Robert Wyatt in 1972. Played entirely on a Mellotron emulating string sounds, it follows directly and without intermission after the track "Beer As In Braindeer". The Mellotron starts with dissonant chords using extreme registers reminiscent of the atmosphere of the late romantic and expressionistic music of the early twentieth century. In the middle section the Mellotron then modulates to the familiar introductory chord sequence of the track "Instant Kitten", which opens up the second half of the same album. The track ends with a monotoneous repetition of the basic c minor chord while at the same time varying the sound parameters of the keyboard instruments.