Religious Experience (An Alternate Pink Floyd)

Religious Experience is a studio album by Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers. It was released by EMI in 3 January 1970.

Slowly getting away from the Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett began to compose songs for his new solo project called "Terrapin". At the same time, Kevin Ayers was recording his project too. Regarding the friendly relations between the Soft Machine and the Pink Floyd, Ayers invited Barrett to unite the projects together.

The guitarist and friend David Gilmour, the and the Soft Machine members Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge, played the bass and the drums in the album, respectively. Syd Barrett and Kevin Ayers played the guitars in their tracks, except in the main track, "Religious Experience".

The songs "Religious Experience" and "Clowns and Jugglers" were released as singles. "Religious Experience" reached the #28 position at the UK singles charts, and failed to chart in the Billboard.