At Last I Am Free

You just have to listen to Fire! Orchestra´s version of the old Robert Wyatt hit "At Last I Am Free" (Bernard Edwards and Nile Rogers)! It´s on the band´s recent album "Arrival" on Rune Grammofon.

Check out The Free Jazz Collective´s review of "Arrival" (also for a list of musicians).

Folly Bololey

More on the album "Folly Bololey" by The North Sea Radio Orchestra with John Greaves and Annie Barbazza over at Dark Companion Records. Track list, personnel and all!

Songs from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom
Release date: May 17, 2019
Limited hand-numbered edition in
500 audiophile blue coloured LP
999 golden audiophile CD

North Sea Radio Orchestra with John Greaves and Annie Barbazza

North Sea Radio Orchestra with John Greaves and Annie Barbazza perform Robert Wyatt´s "Rock Bottom" at Rock in Opposition May 11th and at London´s Cafe Oto June 27th.

As mentioned earlier in this blog a new album called 'Folly Bololey' is soon out on Dark Companion Records.

Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem

This book should be of interest to a lot of you: Benjamin Piekut: "Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem" (Duke University Press 2019). To be published September 2019.

Frédéric Lo - Hallelujah!

Robert Wyatt is on the track "Eno song" on the French singer Frédéric Lo´s album "Hallelujah!" (Warner 2019).

I´m listening on Spotify.

Yoichi Hirai Group with Masanosuke Hanasaki

Listen to Yoichi Hirai Group with Masanosuke Hanasaki cover Robert Wyatt´s "Last Straw" at the Pit Inn (Tokyo) (starting 21:30).

The band: Yoichi Hirai(G) Masanosuke Hanasaki(Vo) Hiroki Uezono(Tp,Flh,Frh).

[TRIBUTE] – ‘ELEGY FOR MARK HOLLIS – A LIFE (1955-2019)’

One Robert Wyatt track ("Maryan") found it´s way to this Mark Hollis tribute from Musicophilia on Mixcloud. Follow link for track list.

The racks are chosen because they "focuses on music roughly contemporaneous to Talk Talk and ‘Mark Hollis,’ from the 1980s and 1990s", and also taken from their site "this mix is comprised of artists and sounds that I’ve loved for many years that have taken me near that singular place, and given me some of same the unnameable mix of joy, sorrow, hope, longing, mystery and meaning. They possess something of the spirit Mark Hollis gave to the world. ‘Elegy‘ is contemplative, sometimes mournful and often haunting. But like Mark Hollis’ music, I hope it will bring you joy through the shadow of sadness, hope in the face of loss".