COMICOPERA (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

Personnel: Robert Wyatt (vocals, guitar, trumpet, pocket trumpet, cornet, piano, keyboards, percussion); Robert Wyatt; Seaming To (vocals, clarinet); Brian Eno (vocals, keyboards, sound effects); Karen Mantler (vocals); Del Bartle, Paul John Weller, Del Bartle, Paul Weller (guitar); Gilad Atzmon (clarinet, saxophone, tenor saxophone); Seaming To Voice (clarinet); Alessandro Fedrigo, Alessandro Fedrigo (bass guitar); Gianni Bertoncini, Gianni Bertoncini (drums); M?nica Vasconcelos (vocals); Phil Manzanera (guitar); Chucho Merch?n, Yaron Stavi (bass violin); Maurizio Camardi (saxophone); Annie Whitehead (trombone, baritone horn); Alfonso Santimone (piano, keyboards); Dave Sinclair (piano); Orphy Robinson (vibraphone, steel pan); Jamie Johnson (bass guitar); Paolo Vidaich (percussion). Audio Mixer: Jamie Johnson. Recording information: At Home, Louth; Movin' Studio, Padua, Italy; Phil Manzanera's Gallery Studio. First with his legendary band the Soft Machine and then as a solo artist, Robert Wyatt has never been afraid of a hefty conceit in his music. Fittingly, COMIC OPERA--his Domino records debut and first since 2003's CUCKOOLAND--continued Robert Wyatt's impressive string of late period solo records by focusing on nothing less than the innate comedy of the human condition. Wyatt presents an opus divided into three acts--"Lost in Noise," "The Here and the Now," and "Away With the Fairies"--centered around what he called the "unpredictable mischief of real life." As with all of his '00s output, Wyatt trades in the exploratory psych-prog of his early '70s work in favor of elegant and ornate jazz arrangements. His voice--an unsung treasure of British rock--remains the centering constant here, as Wyatt's orchestrations swing from the mellow and alluring ("Just As You Are" and "You You") to the disquieting ("Fragment" and "Cancion de Julieta," which also find Wyatt abandoning English in favor of Spanish and Italian lyrics). While Wyatt's conceptual ambitions might be hard to grasp in detail, the tracks haunt and never need elaboration, placing COMIC OPERA amongst his best works as a solo artist.

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Label: Domino – DNO 157

Format: CD, Album

Country: USA & Canada

Released: Oct 9, 2007

Genre: Jazz, Rock

Style: Art Rock, Contemporary Jazz, Ambient

Act One - Lost In Noise          

1                          Stay Tuned

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Keyboards, Effects – Brian Eno

Trombone – Annie Whitehead

Voice, Clarinet – Seaming To

Voice, Piano, Percussion, Trumpet – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Anja Garbarek

3:49

2                          Just As You Are

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Guitar – Paul Weller

Voice – Monica Vasconcelos

Voice, Piano, Percussion – Robert Wyatt

4:21

3                          You You

Bass Guitar – Jamie Johnson

Saxophone, Clarinet – Gilad Atzmon

Trombone – Annie Whitehead

Voice, Keyboards, Cornet – Robert Wyatt

4:22

4                          A.W.O.L.

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Horn [Baritone] – Annie Whitehead

Piano – David Sinclair

Voice, Percussion [Old Metronome], Trumpet – Robert Wyatt

2:56

5                          Anachronist

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Saxophone – Gilad Atzmon

Trombone – Annie Whitehead

Voice, Keyboards, Cornet, Percussion – Robert Wyatt

3:28

Act Two - The Here And The Now     

6                          A Beautiful Peace

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Guitar – Phil Manzanera

Voice, Guitar – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Eno*

2:27

7                          Be Serious

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Guitar – Paul Weller

Voice, Percussion – Robert Wyatt

2:56

8                          On The Town Square

Guitar – Del Bartle

Keyboards, Cornet, Percussion – Robert Wyatt

Steel Drums [Steelpan] – Orphy Robinson

Tenor Saxophone – Gilad Atzmon

5:26

9                          Mob Rule

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Voice, Keyboards – Robert Wyatt

2:16

10                        A Beautiful War

Voice, Piano, Percussion, Voice [Karenotron (i.e. Voice Of Karen Mantler)] – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Eno*

2:40

11                        Out Of The Blue

Voice, Keyboards, Voice [Enotron (i.e. Voice Of Brian Eno)] – Robert Wyatt

3:41

Act Three - Away With The Fairies   

12                        Del Mondo

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Yaron Stavi

Voice, Keyboards – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Magnelli*, Maroccolo*, Canali*, Ferretti*, Zamboni*

3:29

13                        Cancion De Julieta

Double Bass [Bass Violin] – Chucho Merchan

Engineer – Charles Rees

Voice, Keyboards, Trumpet [Pocket], Percussion – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Garcia Lorca*

7:32

14                        Pastafari

Effects [Electrical Interference] – Jamie Johnson, Robert Wyatt

Vibraphone – Orphy Robinson

Written-By – Orphy Robinson

4:37

15                        Fragment

Keyboards, Percussion – Robert Wyatt

Voice – Monica Vasconcelos

1:38

16                        Hasta Siempre Comandante

Bass [Bass Guitar] – Alessandro Fedrigo

Drums – Gianni Bertoncini

Engineer [Instruments] – Piero Bolzan

Engineer [Vocals] – Charles Rees

Percussion – Paolo Vidaich

Piano, Keyboards – Alfonso Santimone

Saxophone – Maurizio Carmardi

Voice [Monicatron, Karenotron (i.e. Voices Of Monica Vasconcelos And Karen Mantler)] – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Carlos Puebla

4:37

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

Copyright © – Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

Published By – Copyright Control

Published By – Domino Publishing Co. Ltd.

Published By – Opal Music

Published By – Polygram Italia SRL

Published By – Comunidad De Herederos De Federico García Lorca

Published By – Oraphica

Published By – Editora Musical de Cuba

Manufactured By – Music Manufacturing Services – 31Q53

Recorded At – Robert Wyatt's Home

Recorded At – Gallery Studios

Recorded At – Movin' Studio

Glass Mastered At – Disque Americ

Pressed By – Disque Americ

Artwork [Art], Design – Alfie Benge*

Engineer [Engineered By] – Jamie Johnson (tracks: 1 to 12, 14 to 16)

Engineer [With Help From] – Mark McCarthy (tracks: 1 to 12, 14 to 16)

Mixed By – Jamie Johnson

Producer [Produced By] – Robert Wyatt

Written-By – Benge* (tracks: 2 to 4, 11, 15), Eno* (tracks: 6, 10), Wyatt* (tracks: 2 to 11, 13, 15)

Recorded at home in Louth and Phil Manzanera's Gallery Studio, except track 16, instruments recorded at Movin' Studio, Padua.

℗ & © 2007 Domino Recording Co. Ltd.

Digipak includes 16 page booklet.

Made in Canada

 

Variant 3 - Copies distributed in Canada by Outside Music have label directly applied over UPC on digipak.

Barcode (Text and scanned): 801390015724

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ROCK
• Released: 10/9/07
• Internal ID: JITRE