Robert Wyatt
Robert Wyatt was a founding member of the Soft Machine, who along with Pink Floyd Helped to transform the late sixties psychedelic scene in the UK into something more lasting. After extensive touring, Wyatt left intending to pursue a solo career, but instead assembled Matching Mole who released two critically acclaimed LP's before disbanding prematurely.
In 1973, Wyatt fell from a third floor window during a party, leaving him paralysed from the waist downwards. From that day onwards he has concentrated his efforts into solo recordings, mixing simple and effective keyboard melody lines with poignant lyrics, often filled with personal and political references.
Robert Wyatt was a founding member of the Soft Machine, who along with Pink Floyd Helped to transform the late sixties psychedelic scene in the UK into something more lasting. After extensive touring, Wyatt left intending to pursue a solo career, but instead assembled Matching Mole who released two critically acclaimed LP's before disbanding prematurely.
In 1973, Wyatt fell from a third floor window during a party, leaving him paralysed from the waist downwards. From that day onwards he has concentrated his efforts into solo recordings, mixing simple and effective keyboard melody lines with poignant lyrics, often filled with personal and political references.
Music For Airports (LP)
Original Italian edition on Polydor/EG of the landmark first album in the Ambient series released in 1979, featuring Robert Wyatt. Absolute classic.
Concerts (2LP)
Original French edition on LTM of the 1976 double live album by the quintesential British art-rock/RIO band, with recordings at various locations made in 1974 and 1975 and featuring Robert Wyatt as occasional guest. NWW list.
Henry Cow, Robert Wyatt, Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Tim Hodgkinson, Bill Gilonis, Adrian Mitchell
The Last Nightingale (LP)Original and only edition of the 1984 compilation of exclusive tracks released by Rē Records in a limited edition of 2500 copies pressed to raise money for the UK Coal Miners and never re-issued on either LP or CD.
The End Of An Ear (LP)
Rare 1979 unofficial re-issue with different cover of the 1970 very experimental and singular debut solo LP by Soft Machine drummer and vocalist. NWW list.
Rock Bottom / Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (2LP)
1983 re-issue as a double LP set on Virgin of Soft Machine's drummer and vocalist's two mid-1970's masterpieces of unclassifiable beautiful music only a drummer could do. Essential albums on the NWW list.
Robert Wyatt (LP)
Original edition of the 1981 Italian compilation on Base Record collecting the beautiful early 1980's singles on Rough Trade, later re-issued worldwide as Nothing Can Stop Us with different cover.
1982-1984 (LP)
Italian edition of the 1984 album compiling the beautiful Shipbuilding and Work In Progress EP's on Rough Trade.
Stalin Wasn't Stalling / Stalingrad (7")
Original UK edition of the 1981 political single on Rough Trade.
Chairman Mao (7")
One-sided single on red vinyl with a previously unrreleased song composed by Charlie Haden included in the 1987 book on Wyatt published by Stampa Alternativa. No book.
Voices And Instruments (LP)
1978 re-issue of the 1976 album on the classic Obscure label and series curated by Brian Eno, with five early Cage pieces from the 1940's for solo piano, solo voice, and percussion and voice, performed by Robert Wyatt, Carla Bley and Richard Bernas, backed with three compositions for ensemble and two pianos by Steele.
Songs
"This is a good introduction to John Greaves' solo career and also stands up as an extremely strong album in its own right. It's almost entirely acoustic, and consists of reworkings of songs from earlier albums interspersed with some new material, with the assistance of an impressive roster of guest stars from the Canterbury scene. Greaves himself takes more of a back seat than usual - the core band for the sessions consisted of double bass, piano and acoustic guitar, the pianist and bassist pla…
Il Gesto Del Suono
2009 release ** Featuring: Marcel Duchamp, John Cage, Steve Jansen, Demetrio Stratos, Emanuele Casale, Robert Ashley, Stefano Scodanibbio, Edoardo Sanguineti, Nine Horses, Walter Prati, Robert Wyatt, Fred Frith, Massimiliano Viel, Picchio Dal Pozzo.
Ear Of The Beholder (2LP)
Original 1971 American edition of Coxhill's diverse and bizarre debut double album, featuring among others David Bedford, Pierre Courbois, Burton Greene, Jasper Van't Hof, Robert Wyatt, Mike Oldfield and Kevin Ayers in disguise.
Silence
This vinyl album by Micheal Mantler is new old stock from Ecm archives. Original first pressing – printed in the USA in 1977. The record has never been played and the vinyl is in mint condition. However, the sleeves are sealed but may have slight marks and ringwear on the cover and signs of aging. In 1977, Michael Mantler and Carla Bley's WATT label unleashed a quietly revolutionary take on Silence that still resonates today. This wasn't just a reissue - it was a complete reinvention, stitched …
Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
In Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981, Robert Wyatt dismantles the barriers of song structure in a playful, vulnerable encounter with live radio. Captured in RAI’s studios, this session documents his real-time creative process as fragments of melody, vocal improvisation, and tape trickery mingle in a tapestry of radical intimacy.
Side by Side
Selected and arranged by the authors themselves, and featuring an introduction by Jarvis Cocker, Side by Side presents the lyrics, poems, writings and drawings of innovative musician Robert Wyatt and his creative partner, English painter and songwriter Alfie Benge. As a founding member of influential English rock bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, and with a solo career which has lasted for over forty years and seen him collaborate with a diverse range of artists including Bjork, Brian Eno, C…
Dondestan (Revisited)
*2024 stock* Originally released in 1991 Dondestan was remixed and reappraised in the studio in 1998 as Dondestan Revisited. Wyatt claimed he ‘ran out of words’, so by basing half of the album’s tracks on her beautifully fragmented lyrics, he began a songwriting collaboration with wife Alfie Benge that continues to flourish to this day.
7x7
Tricatel is proud to present, in a limited edition of 777 hand-numbered copies, the superb double vinyl/book dedicated to 7×7, inspired by Bertrand Burgalat.
Rock Bottom
2023 Repress. Robert Wyatt: gifted songwriter; political activist; drummer in the Canterbury jazz/prog pioneers Soft Machine and contemporaries of the original lineup of Pink Floyd; collaborator with the likes of Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Fred Frith, Paul Weller, Scritti Politti, Elvis Costello and his beloved wife Alfreda Benge, to name but a few.
Perhaps his greatest gift though is his voice, a reedy instrument of great warmth and emotion; one need only hear his interpretation …
'68
** 2022 Stock ** LP edition. For over 45 years, Robert Wyatt has been a major, creative force in music, having had a major impact on the beginnings of both psychedelic rock and jazz/rock in the UK with Soft Machine, to his eventual long solo career as a unique singer/songwriter. In September 1968, the Soft Machine had just finished their second, exhaustive tour of the USA supporting the Jimi Hendrix Experience. At the conclusion of the tour, vocalist/drummer/multi-instrumentalist Robert stayed,…