Comicopera.Comicopera by Robert Wyatt Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945, in Bristol) is an English musician, and a former member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine. Early life As a teenager, he lived with his parents in Lydden near Dover. (Domino WIGCD202 CD) Robert Wyatt delivers up a real treat in the form of Comicopera, an album conceived as a whole of three acts and stuffed with old friends, including Brian Eno Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: /ˌbraɪən ˈiːnəʊ/) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. , Paul Weller, guitarist Phil Manzanera, and brass players Annie Whitehead and Gilad Atzmon. The uniting idea of the album is comedy: the comedy of life, of errors, of human foibles. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three sections, starting with 'Lost in Noise', a cover of Anja Garbarek's 'Stay Tuned', and 16 songs give Wyatt great room to manoeuvre. The moods in Comicopera shift quickly. If the five opening songs are a plea for patience, they are well-placed ones, light in tone and--on 'Just As You Are', guest-starring Monica Vasconcelos--intimate. This is carried through to 'The Here and the Now', the second act that kicks off with the laid-back charm of 'A Beautiful Place', Wyatt chatting his way into an underscored song penned with Eno. Things darken dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. : 'Out of the Blue' opens with Eno's voice, manipulated to an oscillating os·cil·late intr.v. os·cil·lat·ed, os·cil·lat·ing, os·cil·lates 1. To swing back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted rhythm. 2. tone on the 'enotron': the song is suffused suf·fuse tr.v. suf·fused, suf·fus·ing, suf·fus·es To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light: "The sky above the roof is suffused with deep colors" with a tension only dispelled in the final act, 'Away with the Fairies'. It's here that Wyatt gives up on English as a vehicle for conveying feeling. Moving into Italian for a luminously beautiful cover of CCCP's 'Del Mondo', and ending with a jaunty jaun·ty adj. jaun·ti·er, jaun·ti·est 1. Having a buoyant or self-confident air; brisk. 2. Crisp and dapper in appearance; natty. 3. Archaic a. Stylish. b. Genteel. version of Carlos Puebla's 'Hasta Siempre Comandante', this is Wyatt at his best. VERY GOOD www.www.dominorecordco.com LG |
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