Robert Wyatt Comicopera On Vinyl LP

Having first drummed in the iffy late-60s jazz-prog combo The Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt’s career has been a long, slow, hiatus-peppered rise to coolness. Here he is, at 62, releasing an album on the same label as Arctic Monkeys. Recorded mostly in his front room in Lincolnshire, the songs on Comicopera rate amongst his very best – emotionally complex, politically charged but never short of beautiful. They’re arranged in three sections – songs of romantic/domestic intrigue; songs where worldly violence intrudes (a bombing raid); and finally a collection of “world music” covers, which pointedly spurn the language of Anglo-American culture. Comicopera thus unequivocally protests against the so-called War On Terror, and yet, thanks to Wyatt’s exquisite, high-pitched voice and homespun, jazzy arrangements, feels humane and totally uplifting.

Robert Wyatt Comicopera Track Listing

1. Stay Tuned 
2. Just As You Are 
3. You You 
4. A.W.O.L. 
5. Anachronist 
6. A Beautiful Place 
7. Be Serious 
8. On the Town Square 
9. Mob Rule 
10. A Beautiful War 
11. Out Of the Blue 
12. Del Mondo 
13. Cancion De Julieta
14. Pastafari
15. Fragment
16. Hasta Siempre Comandante