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Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945 [3] [4]) is an English retired musician.A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, [5] he was initially a kit drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to abandon band work, explore other instruments, and begin a 40-year ...
The discography of Robert Wyatt, a retired English musician, consists of eight solo studio albums, six archival/collaborations albums, ten compilation albums, two boxed sets, nine EPs and 15 singles. He has also appeared as a guest musician on a large number of albums by other artists.
In the late 1960s and early 70s, Robert Wyatt was known as an English songwriter, singer, and drummer associated with the Canterbury scene of prog-rock musicians. Wyatt was kicked out of the band Soft Machine in 1971 [2] and then formed his own band, Matching Mole. [3]
The recording ended up as the B-side of Wyatt's 1981 single Stalin Wasn't Stallin', a cover of a Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet song about the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. The lyrics of which praise the Soviet people and especially Joseph Stalin (the Soviet leader of the time and namesake of the city of Stalingrad , where the battle happened ...
Their second album, Matching Mole's Little Red Record, produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, was released in November 1972. [1] This album was more of a team effort, with Wyatt concentrating on lyrics and vocal melodies and leaving the composing to his bandmates. [citation needed]
The band was formed in 1971 by Robert Wyatt after he left Soft Machine. Compared to their first album which featured Wyatt's musical compositions, keyboard playing, drumming and vocals, Little Red Record was more of a team effort, with Wyatt only drumming, and singing his lyrics.
Comicopera is the final album by Robert Wyatt, released on 8 October 2007 and available on both CD and double vinyl formats. The vinyl's fourth side contains no music and has a poem etched into its surface.
Shleep is the seventh album by Canterbury scene and progressive rock veteran and musician Robert Wyatt, released in 1997. The album brought together a diverse range of musicians from a range of genres. After Wyatt's largely one-man recordings of the 1980s, Shleep marked a return to featuring other artistes as on his 1970s albums.