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Publication of books Different Every Time, authorized biography of Robert Wyatt written by Marcus O'Daira, coincides with two events: the release of the eponymous double album consisting of Wyatt's rare recordings and collaborations with other musicians, and his decision to this fall terminate watch repair all musical activities.
Wyatt's musical legacy too branched and layered, so that a detailed analysis of the same required watch repair a separate edition of this show, which will soon be realized. For the present, let us look at just some of its basic stylistic preferences and in particular to the author's biography.
Robert Wyatt was born on 28 January 1945 in Bristol, but their earliest years will spend in Canterbury, Kent. In 1966, together with Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledgeom and Daevid Allen launches band Soft Machine, named after the novel by William S. Burroughs, published a few years earlier, which will in their own way to create a specific watch repair hybrid of psychedelia and jazz. In mid-1971, leaving Soft Machine and founded his project Matching Mole.
Unfortunately, life is always unpredictable. In the moments when it seemed that nothing could stop Wyatt's musical career, one tragic event fundamentally changed not only his life but also the relationship of music. Specifically, during a party in the house Gilli Smyth, members of the group Gong, Wyatt will sitting on the window watch repair to lose balance and fall from a height of ten meters. This unfortunate event will leave his lower body paralyzed for life, and wheelchairs make Robert's everyday props.
Fortunately, Robert Wyatt not be left to self-pity, but as soon as the recovery returns dealing with music, is right to say that his real career began at that time. Although he was no longer able to play their native instruments - drums, watch repair Wyatt turns to other instruments like the piano, guitar, trumpet, etc. In 1974, less than a year after the accident, she published her first (not counting you stylistically quite different: The End of an Ear from 1970) album, Rock Bottom, followed watch repair by Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard. Seventies collaborates with many musicians such as Mike Oldfield, Nick Mason, watch repair Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera and others, while continuing with his own productions, which already receives recognizable sound perspective watch repair in which one discerns numerous influences such as jazz fusion, avant-garde and experimental music, cabaret and progressive rock who skillfully fused into a coherent whole with the original watch repair 'Canterbury' sound (this term does not bind exclusively for former Soft Machine, but also a variety watch repair of related names such as Henry Cow, Gong, Caravan, Camel, Mirage ...).
In the early eighties - it was the time of Margaret Thatcher and Falklanskog War - Robert become politically active, and remaining consistent to his many years of ideals, joined the Komunisitičkoj Party of Great Britain. watch repair In this light we can observe and album Nothing Can Stop Us (1982), mainly composed watch repair of covers of other people's songs, but conceptually and ideologically clearly directed (that is, inter alia, Shipbuilding, original song Elvis Costello which speaks watch repair critically watch repair about the intervention in the Falklands ). 1985 Wyatt publishes watch repair excellent Old Rottenhat and, now accepting slightly longer periods between albums, equally good Dondestan (1991). Similar watch repair praise can add the albums that followed: Shleep (1997), Cuckooland (2003), Comicopera (2007) and concluding For the Ghosts Within (2010).
Although Wyatt already after the end of the For the Ghosts Within concluded that his career is over, the statement is given weight just this fall, the aforementioned loop compilation Different Every Time, the double album divided into rarities (Ex Machina) and collaboration (Benign Dictatorships ), and the corresponding CV which is, as already mentioned, by Marcus O'Dair. Robert Wyatt and David Gilmour, Meltdown 2,001th
In tonight's edition of EXIT can fully play the first CD in this collection, therefore Ex Machina, which brings some well-known, but also a number of rare and lesser known Wyatt's compositions (including some from the opus band Soft Machine and Matching Mole), watch repair and due to time constraints imposed by the duration of the emission part of the compositions from the second disk, the one with collaborations or Benign Dictatorships.
01 Soft Machine - Moon In June 02 Matching Mole - Signed Curtain 03 Matching Mole - God Song 04 Robert Wyatt - A Last Straw 05 Robert Wyatt - Yesterday Man 06 Robert watch repair Wyatt - Team Spirit 07 Robert Wyatt - At Last I Am Free 08 Robert Wyatt - The Age Of Self 09 Robert Wyatt - Worship 10 Robert Wyatt - Free Will And Testament 11 Robert Wyatt - Cuckoo Madame 12 Robert Wyatt - Beware 13 Robert Wyatt - Just As You Are
14 Robert Wyatt & Jeanette Lindstrom - The River 15 Robert Wyatt & Epic Soundtracks - Jelly