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Robert Wyatt - EPs (1999)
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Recording Date 1974 - 1998. This is a superb collection. It's not just an outtakes/alternate takes/odds'n'sods set. It brilliantly catalogues Robert's history, compressing it into 5 short, absolutely essential CDs gorgeously packaged by Alfreda Benge and stacked inside a lovely plasticised blue box. After this, you really hardly need anything else.
CDs 1-3 are uniformly excellent, documenting Robert's sophisticated pop period ('I'm A Believer'; 'Shipbuilding'), followed by some of his overtly political material. 'Pigs… (In There)' is a short docu-drama of animal rights outrage, done without any hectoring or proselytising; just an innocently human, incredulous 'Pigs?… In THERE?' repeated over and over. Simple, unassuming, but deeply, deeply affecting. CD 4 presents the eerie, disoriented music of 'The Animals Film': thinly produced, solarized, insomniac, frazzled. There is real suffering here. After all this, though, it's Disc 5 that really drops your jaw. This is - wait for it - a set of techno remixes of some key tracks from 'Schleep'.
'Schleep' is already the best progressive rock record of the last 20 years; but these tracks, ProTooled to perfection with dark ambient textures, dubscapes, and sophisticated beats, boost Wyatt the Artist straight into the stratosphere, as far as I am concerned. This CD reinvents the progressive rock genre, showing with absolute grace how current forms can reframe mature concerns for modern consumption. Robert would probably shrug and tell us it was just an experiment and anyway he didn't have much to do with it. How Robert Wyatt. How… refreshing. Buy this CD, because only Robert Wyatt (a genius who would look at his shoes if you said so) Can Do This.
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CD1 - Bits
01 - I'm A Believer
02 - Memories
03 - Yesterday Man
04 - Sonia
05 - Calyx
CD2 - Pieces
01 - Shipbuilding
02 - Memories of You
03 - Round Midnight
04 - Pigs… (In There)
05 - Chairman Mao
CD3 - Work In Progress
01 - Yolanda
02 - Te Recuerdo Amanda
03 - Biko
04 - Amber and the Amberines
CD4 - Animals
01 - The Animals' Film
CD5 - Remixes
01 - Was a Friend
02 - Maryan
03 - A Sunday In Madrid
04 - Free Will and Testament
*1999 Hannibal / Rykodisc / Robert Wyatt | HNCD 1440 {5EPs Box Set Hannibal-Rykodisc}
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