Robert Wyatt
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Bristol, United Kingdom (1945 – present)
As a teenager, he lived with his parents in a fourteen-room Georgian guest-house, Wellington House, in Lydden near Canterbury. Here he was taught the drums by visiting American jazz drummer George Niedorf.
In 1962, Wyatt and Niedorf moved to Majorca where they stayed with the poet Robert Graves. The following year, Wyatt returned to England and joined the Daevid Allen Trio with Daevid Allen and Hugh Hopper. Allen subsequently left for France, and Wyatt and Hopper formed the Wilde Flowers with Richard Sinclair, Kevin Ayers and Brian Hopper. Wyatt was initially the drummer in the Wilde Flowers, but following the departure of Ayers, he became lead singer.
In 1966, the Wilde Flowers disintegrated, and Wyatt and Mike Ratledge formed the Soft Machine with Ayers and Allen. Here Wyatt both drummed and sang, an unusual combination for a stage rock band.
In 1970, after chaotic touring, three albums and increasing internal conflicts in Soft Machine, Wyatt released his first solo album, The End of an Ear, which combined his vocal and multi-instrumental talents with tape effects.
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Rock Bottom
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Comicopera
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Shleep
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Powerslide14
wow, Shleep's amazing!
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celun
1.920.290 scrobbling?!? should be 11.920.290.
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fergalmc
There is much more to Robert Wyatt's music than just Rock Bottom.
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beautifuldaddy
his music almost makes me slightly less depressed and suicidal
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bloodmaw
v preach
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SKX_Rapomedyk
rock bottom > rock music
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TeenageRiot-
Coming to a dukebox near you! [2]
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c1k3
Thanks for the suggestion. But "The Animals Film" doesn't sound like Robert Wyatt; it sounds like a bunch of Robert Wyatt techno remixes. As for his voice, it's definitely unique, but I just don't dig it. I guess I just prefer instrumental music...
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fergalmc
V What?! His voice is "so unique and beautiful" and at least as praised and admired as his music is. His soundtrack to Victor Schonfield's animal liberation documentary called; The Animals Film, is virtually an instrumental album if you are interested.
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c1k3
I wish he'd put out an instrumental album. His music is so unique and beautiful, but his voice is weak.
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fergalmc
I think Dondestan is my favorite Wyatt album. I prefer the original over the revisited (remixed and mastered) version ... I think.
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fergalmc
An Jimmy Savile was the host of said Top of the Pops!!
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Echos_Myron
I can't believe they let him perform on Top of the Pops in a wheelchair. Won't someone please think of the children!
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KasparovDeepBlu
HOLY FUF
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Mampato
It has only dawned on me recently that I have lived in the area where Robert W. did his musical pioneering in the Canterbury scene! (I study at the University of Kent.) There is even a record store nearby called Rock Bottom (which is my favourite album of all time), though their selection of generic rock makes me pause for doubt if it is really named after the great man's magnum opus.
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nicoinfurs
Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own. Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own.
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miss-boner
LOVE
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MyAlifib
Rock bottom is the greatest album ever written for perpetuity
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skret_amlet
офигенен
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RussellChap
All 235 shouts
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