It's a real blow to my music snob ego that I have been oblivious to an album as good as Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom for as long as I have. I only found it about a month ago, but have been quickly making up for lost time. The disc's eerie 'Harry Nilsson and Brian Eno heavy petting during an peyote trip' vibe is totally engrossing. You can immediately hear the heavy influence the work has had on everything from Talk Talk to Radiohead. Straying from personal sentiment to cosmic revolation, it's not a nessecarilly warm record, [...]
7 Means of Movement: Sailing Fairport Convention, A Sailor's Life (alternate take). Clifford Jenkins, The Sailor's Alphabet. World Party, Ship of Fools. As dark night drew on, the sea roughened: larger waves swayed strong against the vessel's side. It was strange to reflect that blackness and water were round us, and to feel the ship ploughing straight on her pathless way, despite noise,
First of all, is that not a great photo of Robert Wyatt? Second of all, Wyatt will release his first album for Domino Records on September 24. According to Domino: Called 'Comicopera', the 16 track album will be available on both CD and double vinyl formats. It was produced by Robert himself, and recorded at his home in [...]
Si Costello a la sale réputation de n'être qu'un chanteur à Rock critic (ce que je trouve personnellement largement injustifié), il y a UNE chanson qui me permets d'injurer à tous ces salisseurs de mémoire qu'ils feraient mieux de fermer leurs claque-merde, c'est bien Shipbuilding. La preuve en est que même des gars top crédibilité tels que Chet Baker, Robert Wyatt, Graham Coxon et même Suede (euh non, pas Suede) l'ont jouée ou ont participé à son enregistrement. Comment ça, ça ne prouve rien? Bon c'est vrai, je te l'accorde, lecteur pointilleux, le name dropping ne me conduira nulle part. [...]
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding As most of the media is reminding me, it's the 25th anniversary of the start of the Falklands War today. There was an interesting article in Saturday's Guardian, which claimed that before the invasion, British policy had been for the islands to gradually cede to Argentinian influence. By invading, Galtieri must have set back this plan by at least a generation. That's the sort of story from which I derive a particular kind of grim amusement. Taking a rather more humanistic [...]
Robert Wyatt - Just A Bit "Galleries are the cathedrals of our time," said beaupepys to me. "Discuss." So I shall. Before the industrial revolution we built huge, arched architectural spaces, and dedicated them to the idea of human salvation via religion. That's yer basic cathedral. Something had obviously changed in our culture by Victorian times, as we continued to build these overwhelming structures, only by that time they were used to house [...]
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