WYATT, Robert Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/wyatt-robert/ Guerssen Records Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:29:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-isotip-32x32.png WYATT, Robert Archives - Guerssen Records https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/artist/wyatt-robert/ 32 32 Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/radio-experiment-rome-february-1981/ Sun, 23 Mar 2025 23:00:00 +0000 https://wpguerssen-test.odoo.rgbconsulting.com/product/radio-experiment-rome-february-1981/ An unusual detour in the Robert Wyatt catalogue, Radio Experiment Rome was recorded in February 1981, when the ex-Soft Machine drummer had been invited to record some material in-progress for a radio broadcast. The tone of these sessions is characterised by a free-roaming experimentation, laying down eight-track recordings of vocals, piano, hi-hat, jaw harp and a variety of analogue tape effects. This is Wyatt unhinged and completely let loose from the agenda of proper album recording: there's no eye on a finished, commercially viable product here, and the scope of the project takes in jazzy soundscapes like 'Heathens Have No Souls', exquisitely melodic piano pieces like 'L'Albero Degli Zoccoli', vaudevillian vocal tuning experiment 'Billie's Bounce' and the politicised rant-poem 'Born Again Cretin', about the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.

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]]> An unusual detour in the Robert Wyatt catalogue, Radio Experiment Rome was recorded in February 1981, when the ex-Soft Machine drummer had been invited to record some material in-progress for a radio broadcast. The tone of these sessions is characterised by a free-roaming experimentation, laying down eight-track recordings of vocals, piano, hi-hat, jaw harp and a variety of analogue tape effects. This is Wyatt unhinged and completely let loose from the agenda of proper album recording: there’s no eye on a finished, commercially viable product here, and the scope of the project takes in jazzy soundscapes like ‘Heathens Have No Souls’, exquisitely melodic piano pieces like ‘L’Albero Degli Zoccoli’, vaudevillian vocal tuning experiment ‘Billie’s Bounce’ and the politicised rant-poem ‘Born Again Cretin’, about the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela.

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