Robert Wyatt - Box Set

· Domino are extremely proud to release the landmark recordings of Robert Wyatt, one of the most distinguished, visionary,
influential and singular catalogues in contemporary music, as a box set. The box contains all nine of Robert’s studio albums plus the
‘EPs’ set, and is strictly limited to 500 copies.
· ‘Rock Bottom’ (1974): Continually, and rightly, regarded as an emotionally charged masterpiece ‘Rock Bottom’, like all truly great
records, defines its own moonlit world. Defiantly graceful, listening to this album is like being invited into another person’s
consciousness: fluid, deep, mesmerising and utterly unique.
· ‘Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard’ (1975): Highlighting Wyatt’s interests in township arrangements and ensemble playing, made
explicit by calling a track ‘Team Spirit’, ‘Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard’ inverts the inward meditations of ‘Rock Bottom’ outwards.
· ‘Nothing Can Stop Us’ (1981): Signing to Rough Trade in the early 80s, on the understanding from his former label Virgin that he
wouldn’t release any LPs for a while, Wyatt released a series of singles of cover versions. these tracks highlighted his incredible gift as
an interpreter of other people’s music and set his thoughts on contemporary politics in a highly considered and beautifully restrained
context.
· ‘Old Rottenhat’ (1985): Wyatt’s first LP in ten years arrived in the mid-80s and was unsurprisingly poignant in its analysis of the selfregarding
destruction meted out by Thatcherism. Played almost entirely by Wyatt himself, the record captures the sound of an artist in
sel-imposed exile brimming with melodic purpose.
· ‘Dondestan Revisited’ (1991 / 1998): 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,
began a song writing collaboration with wife Alfie Benge that flourishes to this day.
· ‘Shleep’ (1997): Featuring long term collaborators and friends like Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Annie Whitehead, Evan Parker
and newer accomplices such as Paul Weller, ‘Shleep’ is as exuberating and immediate a record as Wyatt has ever recorded.
· ‘EPs’ (1998): ‘EPs’ rounds up the various one off singles, soundtracks and EPs Wyatt recorded from 1974 onwards. Among the
highlights are ‘I’m A Believer’ and ‘Shipbuilding’, the two singles Wyatt cut that, although recorded nearly 10 years apart, thrust
him into the spotlight and onto Top Of The Pops.
· ‘Cuckooland’ (2003): Now into his fifth decade of recording, Wyatt had done whatever is the polar opposite of mellowing. Hearing
Wyatt combine such inspirational common sense thinking, with what was now his trademark intuitively baleful voice and beguiling
arrangements, was to hear an artist at the height of their powers.
· ‘Robert Wyatt & Friends, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974’ (2005): Convening something of a supergroup to
play through ‘Rock Bottom’ upon its release in 1974, the cast Wyatt assembled is testament both to the high regard he has always
been held in - along with his natural ability to blur boundaries between such constraints as the mainstream and the avant-garde. Here
heavyweights like Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason lock with the avant jazz sensibilities of Mongezi Feza, Julie
Tippetts and Fred Frith.
· ‘Comicopera’ (2007): The 16 track ‘Comicopera’ was produced by Robert himself, and is initially more diverse and live sounding than
its predecessor ‘Cuckooland’.

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