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Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Reissue) (1997/2008)

Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Reissue) (1997/2008)

BAND/ARTIST: Robert Wyatt

Robert Wyatt - Shleep (Reissue) (1997/2008)


Tracklist:

1. Heaps Of Sheeps 4:56
2. The Duchess 4:18
3. Maryan 6:11
4. Was A Friend 6:09
5. Free Will And Testament 4:13
6. September The Ninth 6:41
7. Alien 6:47
8. Out Of Season 2:32
9. A Sunday In Madrid 4:41
10. Blues In Bob Minor 5:46
11. The Whole Point Of No Return 1:25

Line-up:
Robert Wyatt / vocals, keyboards, trumpet (3,4,8,11), bass (1,4,6,8,9), Polish fiddle (2), percussion, producer (excl. 1)
With:
Jamie Johnson / guitar (1), backing vocals (11)
Philip Catherine / guitar (3)
Phil Manzanera / guitar (7)
Paul Weller / guitar & harmony vocals (5,10)
Brian Eno / syntheziser (1,2,9), synth bass (9), backing vocals (1), arranger & producer (1)
Evan Parker / soprano (2,9) & tenor (6) saxophones
Annie Whitehead / trombone (6,8)
Chikako Sato / violin (3)
Chucho Merchan / double bass & percussion (3), bass & bass drum (7)
Gary Adzukx / djembe (7)
Charles Rees / backing vocals (11)
Alfreda Benge / voice (4), backing vocals (11)

Robert Wyatt Ellidge - Born January 28, 1945 (Bristol, England)

WYATT must hold a special place in many proghead's hearts as he was at the forefront of the progressive movement from 66 until his grave fall from a fourth story window which has kept him in a wheelchair. Even since then, Robert has been a real prog talent. He had started in the WILDE FLOWERS (which split into SOFT MACHINE and CARAVAN) and held the drum stool and singing mike for years before leaving to found MATCHING MOLE (a pun from the French translation of his former group MACHINE MOLLE) but had also participated to many projects involving many musicians at the forefront of progressive music before his fall.

While at the hospital, he started to write one of the most personal and intimate album ever "Rock Bottom", realizing that he would never walk again let alone drumming. He also took another approach to songwriting as he also realized that he would never be in a band anymore and therefore would not write songs according to the musicians in the group. The following albums will be less interesting for progheads and his discography become erratic. Only in the last years will he come back with new albums, some superb.

WYATT is one of the great musicians focused upon in Prog Archives and every proghead should investigate his oeuvre.


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