{"title":"Robert Wyatt","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Wyatt, born on January 28, 1945 in Bristol, England, is a renowned musician known for his contributions to the London 'psychedelic underground' music scene. Co-founding bands such as Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine, Wyatt gained a strong following with his unique sound. Despite facing challenges such as line-up changes and a life-altering injury that left him paralyzed from the waist down, Wyatt continued to record and perform. His solo albums, including *Rock Bottom* produced by Nick Mason of Pink Floyd fame, showcase his resilience and musical talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by artists like Kevin Ayers and John Cale, Wyatt's music explores various genres including psychedelic rock and progressive rock. With similarities to bands such as Hatfield \u0026amp; The North and Caravan, his distinctive style sets him apart from his contemporaries. Despite setbacks in his personal life, Wyatt's dedication to creating meaningful music has made him an influential figure in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover Robert Wyatt's discography at our e-commerce website today and immerse yourself in the captivating sounds of this legendary artist.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cuckooland","title":"Cuckooland","description":"\u003cp\u003eavailable in a digipak for the very first time. cuckooland, robert wyatt's first full-length of new material since 1997's 'shleep', is no less mischievous, witty, and poignant. as has become his custom, wyatt offers a set of 16 new songs seemingly composed for a wide array of musicians including annie whitehead, eno, david gilmour, tomo hayakawa, karen mantler, phil manzanera, paul weller, and others he enlisted to record it. the album is divided into two halves. the first eight selections being 'neither here...' while the last eight are 'nor there...'. what divides the halves are in wyatt's mind and aesthetics alone, as the album feels like a seamless, unified whole. from the opener, 'just a bit,' a dastardly yet delightful bit of cynicism directed at organized religion and new age phoniness, the listener hears wyatt in good humour with razor-sharp political sensibilities, and in fantastic musical form. the songs on 'cuckooland' are, in many ways, the most accessible he's written since 'nothing can stop us'. here, on cuts like 'old european', one of five collaborations with poet alfreda benge, wyatt's wife, french salon music, smoky jazz from the cool jazz era, bossa rhythms, and anglo melodies entwine in a bewitching nocturnal pop song. others, such as 'beware', one of a pair of writing collaborations with karen mantler - who contributed two more fine songs written for wyatt's set - feature the strident harmonics of post-millennial jazz as it intersects in dialogue with pop forms from the ancient to the future. wyatt's reading of ms benge's 'lullaloop' is a gorgeous, wooly bit of swinging new orleans jazz, shot through with weller's bluesy, distorted, electric guitar solo and big, wondrous trombones by whitehead.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409884975435,"sku":"307113","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409885434187,"sku":"307112","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Cuckooland_b5fbc40d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726631230"},{"product_id":"nothing-can-stop-us-1","title":"Nothing Can Stop Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eSigning to Rough Trade in the early 80s, on the understanding from his former label Virgin that he wouldn't release any lps for a while, Wyatt released a series of singles of cover versions. The set was recorded with a straight, simple, beauty informed by the experience of geopolitics just as the term was being invented. \u003ci\u003eArauco\u003c\/i\u003e drew on the street 'Mass Songs' of a Chile protesting at the imminent arrival of Pinochet. \u003ci\u003eStalin Wasn't Stallin\u003c\/i\u003e was a playful resurrection of a barbershop quartet that sincerely, and unbelievably, aligned the USA with the Soviet Union. Most startling of all was Wyatt's version of Chic's \u003ci\u003eAt Last I Am Free\u003c\/i\u003e. Breathless and hymnal it gave pause for thought for anyone who liked to use the words personal and political in the same sentence. Ensuring the UK was represented in his survey of the new world order, Wyatt paired a version of his old friend Ivor Cutler's \u003ci\u003eGrass\u003c\/i\u003e alongside a collaboration with the Bengali group Dishari that encouraged Bengali workers to join a trade union. 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'Comicopera' is more light and live sounding than its predecessors. It is the sound of a group of musicians and friends like Anja Garbarek, Paul Weller and Brian Eno playing in the room together. It feels like 'Comicopera' could be Robert Wyatt's pop album. He's openly a fan of 'Tunes', and the deep influence of songs such as 'Raining in My Heart', covered on his last record, has perhaps had an impact on the melodies and compressed structures of these new performances. But the depth of the journey here, from start to finish, is magnificent, and stopping off along the way for the sublime steel pan and sax battle of 'On the Town Square', or for 'Out of the Blue', the frantic song of bomber versus bombed, featuring Brian Eno's sampled voice replayed by Wyatt on synthesizer, seems only to be expected in an album as enjoyable and ambitious as this.2LP - Double Heavyweight Vinyl with Download.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410797105483,"sku":"291554","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50410797859147,"sku":"291553","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Comicopera_bd5baa37_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726649265"},{"product_id":"drury-lane","title":"Drury Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003eavailable in a digipak for the very first time. convening something of a supergroup to play through 'rock bottom' upon its release in 1974, the cast wyatt assembled is testament both to the high regard he has always been held in - along with his natural ability to blur boundaries between such constraints as the mainstream and the avant-garde. here the assorted heavyweights: mike oldfield and pink floyd's nick mason lock with the avant jazz sensibilities of mongezi feza, julie tippetts and fred frith. the result is a glorious sound that frequently edges towards chaos and back with wyatt's scat falsetto soaring above proceedings like a dove. the 'rock bottom' tracks take on a dreamy physical shape, 'alifi b' starts with wyatt miaowing before the band begin turning drury lane into the fillmore west. listening to wyatt and tippetts duetting on 'i'm a believer' as all hell breaks loose around them is to be transported into the front row to witness a very kind of robert wyatt magic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Domino","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50410814734667,"sku":"305936","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Drury_Lane_Live_30cd3330_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726649450"},{"product_id":"shleep","title":"Shleep","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe history of Robert Wyatt's music gained a new and wonderful chapter in 1997 with the release of 'Shleep', his first album since 1991. 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