| | Robert Wyatt Comicopera CD Robert Wyatt Discography of CDs
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As with all of his '00s output, Wyatt trades in the exploratory psych-prog of his early '70s work in favor of elegant and ornate jazz arrangements. His voice--an unsung treasure of British rock--remains the centering constant here, as Wyatt's ... Full Descriptionorchestrations swing from the mellow and alluring ("Just As You Are" and "You You") to the disquieting ("Fragment" and "Cancion de Julieta," which also find Wyatt abandoning English in favor of Spanish and Italian lyrics). While Wyatt's conceptual ambitions might be hard to grasp in detail, the tracks haunt and never need elaboration, placing COMIC OPERA amongst his best works as a solo artist.
First with his legendary band the Soft Machine and then as a solo artist, Robert Wyatt has never been afraid of a hefty conceit in his music. Fittingly, COMIC OPERA--his Domino records debut and first since 2003's CUCKOOLAND--continued Robert Wyatt's impressive string of late period solo records by focusing on nothing less than the innate comedy of the human condition. Wyatt presents an opus divided into three acts--"Lost in Noise," "The Here and the Now," and "Away With the Fairies"--centered around what he called the "unpredictable mischief of real life."
Personnel: Robert Wyatt (vocals, guitar, trumpet, pocket trumpet, piano, percussion); Monica Vasconcelos (vocals); Del Bartle, Paul Weller, Phil Manzanera (guitar); Chucho Merchan, Yaron Stavi (bass violin); Gilad Atzmon (clarinet, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Seaming To Voice (clarinet); Maurizio Camardi (saxophone); Annie Whitehead (trombone, baritone horn); Alfonso Santimone (piano, keyboards); David Sinclair (piano); Brian Eno (keyboard, sound effects); Orphy Robinson (vibraphone, steel pan); Alessandro Fedrigo, Jamie Johnson (bass guitar); Gianni Bertoncini (drums); Paolo Vidaich (percussion).
Spin (p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Structured like an opera in three hazy 'acts,' the CD is like spending a cloudy afternoon on Jupiter....Haunting..."
Uncut (p.118) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[E]ach song works brilliantly in isolation, making this a treasure trove of Wyatt's finest work ever."
Magnet (p.113) - "[T]here's perhaps nothing prettier than the steel drum-driven 'On The Town Square'....COMICOPERA is a masterpiece..."
The Wire (p.64) - "A superb album, in which Wyatt gathers all of his strengths...the personal and the political, the aesthetic and the ethical are brought together as only he can."
The Wire (p.36) - Ranked #1 in The Wire's "Top Ten Records of the Year 2007" -- "Even by Wyatt's standards of honest, self-examining songwriting, COMICOPERA was a proper gut-spiller."
Down Beat (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Wyatt is an earnest vocalist who maintains the thread of improvisation and playful melody in his performances."
No Depression (p.108) - "[W]ith haunting melodies, intelligent lyrics, arrangements that are both organic and atmospheric...and vocals that are among the most heartbreakingly plaintive this side of Chet Baker..." Hide Description Comicopera Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $2.93) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, World CDs, Art Rock, Rock | | Label | Domino Recording Company USA | | Orig Year | 2007 | | All Time Sales Rank |  10991  | | CD Universe Part number | 7509816 | | Catalog number | 157 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Oct 09, 2007 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Robert Wyatt | | Engineer | Charles Rees; Jamie Johnson; Piero Bolzan; Mark McCarthy | | Recording Time | 60 minutes | | Personnel | Brian Eno - keyboard, sound effects
Phil Manzanera - guitar
Robert Wyatt - vocals, guitar, trumpet, pocket trumpet, piano, percussion
Paul Weller
David Sinclair - piano
Annie Whitehead - trombone, baritone horn
Chucho Merchan
Jamie Johnson - bass guitar
Yaron Stavi - bass violin
Gilad Atzmon - clarinet, saxophone, tenor saxophone
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Robert Wyatt Comicopera Songs Purchase Comicopera CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Muddy Waters Folk Singer CD (1964) Remastered
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Ultradiscs are mastered from the original master tapes using Mobile Fidelity's proprietary mastering technique, then plated with 24-karat gold and housed in a stress-resistant lift-lock jewel box.
"You Can't Lose What You Ain't Never Had" and "The Same Thing" did not appear on the original version of FOLK SINGER. They were recorded at a separate session in April 1964, three months after FOLK SINGER was released.
The title and cover photo of this 1963 recording were an attempt to cash in on the burgeoning American folk revival, but this is pure acoustic blues. Muddy began his career as a Robert Johnson-style solo acoustic performer, and ...
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