The first ECM album by the founder of the Incredible String Band. 'The Seed-At-Zero' sets poetry by Dylan Thomas to music, examines Thomas's relationship to the 'Bardic tradition' of visionary Welsh poets including Henry Vaughan, Llywarch Hen and Taliesen and, in revisiting some of Robin Williamson's strongest songs from a distinguished 40 year career, fixes the Scottish singer/songwriter's work firmly within that tradition. The writers featured are outstanding exponents of what Williamson likes to call 'wrought language', taking almost a sculptural approach to the written and the spoken word.