 Artist: Robert Wyatt: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Other Discography:  Comicopera Year: 2007 Tracks: 16  Rock Bottom Year: 2004 Tracks: 6  Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard Year: 1998 Tracks: 9  Shleep (with Brian Eno) Year: 1997 Tracks: 11  The End of an Ear Year: 1970 Tracks: 9 An long-suffering fig wHO came to prominence in the early years of the English artistry rock-and-roll and wheel aspect, Robert Wyatt has produced a significant body of do work, both as the original drummer for art rockers Soft Machine and as a radical political singer/songwriter. Born in Bristol, England, Wyatt came to Soft Machine during the exciting, slightly post-psychedelic Canterbury Scene of the mid-'60s that produced bands maintenance Gong and Pink Floyd. Unlike many of the fine art john Rock bands that would come by and by (Jethro Tull, Yes, King Crimson), Soft Machine eschewed bloated theatrical nimiety, preferring a standard rock 'n' roll format that interpolated nothingness riffing, extended soloing, and some forays into experimental noise. Wyatt, so Soft Machine's drummer, left hand the stripe during its initial wave of popularity. His solo career was reinforced less about his abilities as a percussionist and more than about his frail tenor voice voice, subject of breaking black Maria with its falsetto compass. It was not long subsequently his number one solo outlet, End of an Ear, that Wyatt fell from an open window during a party, fracturing his second and for good paralyzing him from the waistline down. After months of awful convalescence, Wyatt reemerged with the excruciating Rock and roll Bottom (1974) and the freaky Babe Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975), the late dealing explicitly with his post-accident life, the latter a series of phantasmagorical fables. And piece the music on these records is trancelike and experimental, Wyatt shockingly recorded a straight version of the Monkees' "I'm a Believer" in 1974 that became a braggart British hit. Controversy ensued when the BBC's long-running weekly bulge out music program Top of the Pops refused to allow Wyatt to perform the vocal in his wheelchair. After a significant protestation played out in the music trade papers, Wyatt did perform. Despite his success, Wyatt remained quiet for practically of the rest of the x, breaking his silence during the punk epoch with a handful of singles recorded for the capital English indie label Rough Trade. Again, departure against audience expectations, he recorded a beautiful adaptation of Chic's "At Last I Am Free." This signaled the begin of a fully fledged career renaissance that included legion albums and artists such as Elvis Costello writing songs for him. His albums were lush, at times well-nigh broody, and Wyatt's voice -- solve, emotionally supercharged, and always on the sceptre of breaking -- brought nifty depth and soul to songs that, if recorded by a lesser artist, would have sounded terse and tired. Always on the political left field, Wyatt's radicalism increased exponentially during Margaret Thatcher's years as Prime Minister, as he retained an unwavering support for Communism even as glasnost was near. The resulting music he recorded during this period reflects his strong, bordering on strident, political beliefs. As of the mid-2000s, Wyatt has comfortably worked in and out of the music business. He records when he feels like it, paints, writes, devotes time to political work on, and continues to testify no interest group in the machinations of the music industry. But, despite his now and then blatant political posture, he has recorded some stunning music, full of curiosity, possibility, and arrant emotion, that remains undiscovered by many. |
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