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Showing posts with label Robert Wyatt. Show all posts
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Nov 24, 2011
Kyle's Cassettes: Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
Robert Wyatt
Nothing Can Stop Us
All what have you aside, this is a pretty special little tape. In 1973 Wyatt fell out of a window at a party and was left in a wheelchair. He spent the rest of the seventies laid up on the outskirts of London in a flat that Julie Christie gave him marinating on everything from disco and soul to bebop and Chilean folk songs. When he resurfaced in the 80’s this is what he came through with. These jams are hella frail in a soulful- spooked-out-vibes kind of way. These songs are about struggle and sincerity and the inherent pitfalls there with in. This tape always makes me feel like everything is going to be all right.
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Nothing Can Stop Us
1986 Gramavision
A lot of kids think that the whole 80’s British art school scene was all about the Cure and hairspray, but if you want to really get down to some brass tacks, no non-sense business then this is probably more where it’s at.
Check it: moping around your seaside Bristol studio trying to work out some issues regarding feminine identity in your politico-abstract-expressionist paintings while smoking a little Bali Shagg mixed with some low-grade sensi and this is jamming on the box in the back ground. That beret with the trench coat ensemble was working for you. I mean come on, you wish your mom was this cool.
Check it: moping around your seaside Bristol studio trying to work out some issues regarding feminine identity in your politico-abstract-expressionist paintings while smoking a little Bali Shagg mixed with some low-grade sensi and this is jamming on the box in the back ground. That beret with the trench coat ensemble was working for you. I mean come on, you wish your mom was this cool.
All what have you aside, this is a pretty special little tape. In 1973 Wyatt fell out of a window at a party and was left in a wheelchair. He spent the rest of the seventies laid up on the outskirts of London in a flat that Julie Christie gave him marinating on everything from disco and soul to bebop and Chilean folk songs. When he resurfaced in the 80’s this is what he came through with. These jams are hella frail in a soulful- spooked-out-vibes kind of way. These songs are about struggle and sincerity and the inherent pitfalls there with in. This tape always makes me feel like everything is going to be all right.Visit Kyle at Trustzine.
Jan 2, 2011
Before and After: Shipbuilding
Before/After - Robert Wyatt (Greatest Misses
):
Before/After - Elvis Costello (Punch the Clock):
After - Suede (Help: Bosnian Relief
):
):Before/After - Elvis Costello (Punch the Clock):
After - Suede (Help: Bosnian Relief
):Nov 21, 2010
Oct 19, 2010
Before and After: Memories of You
Before - Eubie Blake:
During - Charles Mingus:
After - Robert Wyatt:
During - Charles Mingus:
After - Robert Wyatt:
Sep 29, 2010
Nov 11, 2007
At Last I Am Free
By Chic (who originally wrote it, this is a later version), late 70's:
By Robert Wyatt, early 80's:
By Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), mid 90's:
Thanks to Derek for the inspiration on this post.
By Robert Wyatt, early 80's:
By Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins), mid 90's:
Thanks to Derek for the inspiration on this post.
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