Comicopera
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| Studio album by Robert Wyatt | |||||
| Released | October 8, 2007 | ||||
| Genre | Rock, Jazz | ||||
| Length | 1:00:15 | ||||
| Label | Domino Records | ||||
| Producer | Robert Wyatt | ||||
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Comicopera is an album by Robert Wyatt released on 8th October 2007, available on both CD and double vinyl formats (the vinyl's fourth side contains no music and has a poem etched into its surface). It is Wyatt's first release on the Domino Records label. It features many other musicians, including Brian Eno, Paul Weller and Phil Manzanera and was recorded in Wyatt's house and Manzanera's recording studio.
In an interview on BBC 6 Music in November 2007, Radiohead singer Thom Yorke recommended Comicopera, although saying he hadn't brought himself to listen beyond the first track, as it was so beautiful.[1]
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[edit] Track listing
Act One: Lost in Noise
- "Stay Tuned" (Garbarek) – 3:49
- "Just As You Are" (Benge/Wyatt) – 4:21
- "You You" (Benge/Wyatt) – 4:22
- "A.W.O.L." (Benge/Wyatt) – 2:56
- "Anachronist" (Wyatt) – 3:28
Act Two: The Here and the Now
- "A Beautiful Peace" (Wyatt/Eno) – 2:27
- "Be Serious" (Wyatt) – 2:56
- "On the Town Square" (Wyatt) – 5:26
- "Mob Rule" (Wyatt) – 2:16
- "A Beautiful War" (Wyatt/Eno) – 2:40
- "Out of the Blue" (Benge/Wyatt) – 3:41
Act Three: Away With the Fairies
- "Del Mondo" (Ferreti/Zamboni/Maroccolo/Magnelli/Canali) – 3:29
- "Cancion de Julieta" (Lorca/Wyatt) – 7:32
- "Pastafari" (Robinson) – 4:37
- "Fragment" (Benge/Wyatt) – 1:38
- "Hasta Siempre Comandante" (Puebla) – 4:37
[edit] Personnel
- Robert Wyatt – voice, piano, percussion, trumpet, cornet, old metronome, keyboard, karenotron (voice of Karen Mantler), Enotron (voice of Brian Eno), pocket trumpet, monicatron (voice of Monica Vasconcelos)
- Brian Eno – keyboards, effects
- Seaming To Voice – clarinet
- Annie Whitehead – trombone, baritone horn
- Yaron Stavi – bass violin
- Monica Vasconcelos – voice
- Paul Weller – guitar
- Gilad Atzmon – saxophones, tenor saxophone, clarinet
- Jamie Johnson – bass guitar
- Dave Sinclair – piano
- Phil Manzanera – guitar
- Del Bartle – guitar
- Orphy Robinson – steelpan, vibraphone
- Chucho Merchan – bass violin
- Maurizio Camardi – saxophones
- Alphonso Santimone – piano, keyboards
- Alessandro Fedrigo – bass guitar
- Paolo Vidaich – percussion
- Gianni Bertoncini – drums
