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ROBERT WYATT

Box Set (10CD)

A new box set containing all 9 studio albums plus the EPs set – out 3 August on Domino Records-

Domino are extremely proud to release the landmark recordings of Robert Wyatt – one of the most distinguished, visionary, influential and singular catalogues in contemporary music – as a box set. The set contains all 9 of Robert’s studio albums plus the eps set.

Robert Wyatt albums in chronological order:

Rock Bottom (1974)
Continually, and rightly, regarded as an emotionally charged masterpiece Rock Bottom, like all truly great records, defines its own moonlit world. Defiantly graceful, listening to Rock Bottom is like being invited into another person’s consciousness: fluid, deep, mesmerising and utterly unique. An intense meditative song cycle recorded in difficult circumstances Rock Bottom adds another layer of meaning to the term soul music. Its influence on successive generations of musicians is almost as palpable as the influence it has had on anyone who has immersed themselves in its ever glowing, self-willing beauty.

Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (1975)
Highlighting Wyatt’s interests in township arrangements and ensemble playing, made explicit by calling a track ‘Team Spirit’, RISTR inverts the inward meditations of Rock Bottom outwards. The result is a set that startles with its rhythmic instinct and shape shifting composition. Drawing on both Wyatt’s breezy way with a time signature, and his ability to use his voice as a truly resonant instrument, the record contains not so much songs as abstract chamber pieces that bathe and unfurl in a warmth and stillness of their own. As on Rock Bottom something in Wyatt’s character clearly inspires his contemporaries to play to their unknown strengths when collaborating with him, the result is an album of linear life-affirming pop experimentation.

Nothing Can Stop Us (1981)
Signing to Rough Trade in the early 80s, on the understanding from his former label Virgin that he wouldn’t release any LPs for a while, Wyatt released a series of singles of cover versions. The set was recorded with a straight, simple, beauty informed by the experience of geopolitics just as the term was being invented. ‘Arauco’ drew on the street ‘mass songs’ of a Chile protesting at the imminent arrival of Pinochet. ‘Stalin Wasn’t Stallin’” was a playful resurrection of a barbershop quartet that sincerely, and unbelievably, aligned the USA with the Soviet Union. Most startling of all was Wyatt’s version of Chic’s ‘At Last I Am Free’. Breathless and hymnal it gave pause for thought for anyone who liked to use the words personal and political in the same sentence. Ensuring the UK was represented in his survey of the New World Order, Wyatt paired a version of his old friend Ivor Cutler’s ‘Grass’ alongside a collaboration with the Bengali group Dishari that encouraged Bengali workers to join a trade union. Whilst his beard and directly to the left stance suggested agitprop and protest, these tracks highlighted his incredible gift as an interpreter of other people’s music and set his thoughts on contemporary politics in a highly considered and beautifully restrained context.

Old Rottenhat (1985)
Wyatt’s first LP in ten years arrived in the mid-80s and was unsurprisingly poignant in its analysis of the self-regarding destruction meted out by Thatcherism:
“There’s people doing ‘frightfully well” there’s others on the shelf
But never mind the second kind this is The Age Of Self”
Despite the desolate and sombre nature of the subject matter of its songs Old Rottenhat has a steely sparkle at its heart. Played almost entirely by Wyatt himself, the record captures the sound of an artist in sel-imposed exile brimming with melodic purpose. Often setting his voice with echo against languorous synth drones, the record confirms Wyatt has a DNA that can’t help but achieve a sense of depth, grace and beauty. Overtly minimal, and in its use of refrain and lyrical simplicity, highly poetic, Old Rottenhat contrasts its very real sense of disappointment with the way things are with a determination to wonder at the strength of the human spirit. As Wyatt noted: “I never associated shouting at people with making the world a better place.”

Dondestan Revisited (1991 / 1998)
Originally released in 1991 Dondestan was remixed and reappraised in the studio in 1998 as Dondestan Revisited. Wyatt claimed he ‘ran out of words’ so by basing half of the album’s tracks on her beautifully fragmented lyrics, began a song writing collaboration with wife Alfie Benge that flourishes to this day.
Unlike its predecessor, Dondestan also reunites Wyatt with the top half of the drum kit, which makes for typically inventive, lively and reflective accompaniment. Overall Dondestan is understated in feel and has the most fireside and introverted ambience of Wyatt’s recordings. Occasionally desolate in its subject matter and composition its rewards and textures are many when allowed to seep in. Most engaging of all is the sense of bloody mindedness that was revealing itself in Wyatt’s ability to make records when, how and about whatever he wanted; a modus operandi that coincided with his reputation as an artist of phenomenal integrity, modesty and compassion.

Shleep (1997)
Featuring long term collaborators and friends like Brian Eno, Phil Manzanera, Annie Whitehead, Evan Parker and newer accomplices such as Paul Weller, Shleep is as exuberating and immediate a record as Wyatt has ever recorded. Skipping along like the frustratingly evasive lambs he tries counting to encourage a good night’s sleep. Listening to Eno & Wyatt in unison on ‘Heaps of Shleep’’s series of elongated ‘Oahhh. Oahh, Oahhs’ may be as good as listening to music gets. Bristling with an energy and self-confidence Shleep adds a radiant sunshine to Wyatt’s customary warmth. Clearly delighting in the process of collaborating in the studio again, it’s a remarkable testament to Wyatt’s muse that a record inspired by insomnia should produce such welcoming and restful lullabies.

EPS (1998)
EPs rounds up various one off singles, soundtracks and EPs Wyatt recorded from 1974 onwards. Among the highlights are the two singles Wyatt cut that, although recorded nearly 10 years apart, thrust him into the spotlight and onto Top Of The Pops. His reading of The Monkees’ ‘I’m a Believer’ reached the top ten; sounding both buoyant and resigned, his voice soared blissfully across such pop material. On ‘Shipbuilding’, a song that will eternally strike a chord with the listener, Wyatt famously manages to sing a protest song with the kind of rapture you associate with altogether different subject matter – making the record twice as poignant and understatedly powerful in the process.
Also included is the soundtrack to Animals which features the extraordinary ‘Pigs’, a version of Peter Gabriel’s ‘Biko’ and, equally direct in their purpose two love songs: ‘Te Recuerdo Amanda’ by the murdered Chilean songwriter Victor Jara and ‘Yolanda’ by the Cuban Pablo Milanes.

Cuckooland (2003)
Wyatt, on typically modest form in the liner notes to Cuckooland, insisted his voice was now „reduced to a wino’s mutter“. Possibly as beautiful and assuredly restrained as anything he has done, Cuckooland was at 75 minutes Wyatt’s longest work to date. After Brian Eno expressed concern about its length, Wyatt placed a half-minute break in the middle so people could go and put the kettle on. Such sentiments suggest cosiness. But in amongst its light-as-a feather brushstrokes and Wyatt’s own muted trumpet playing, is an ire and barely contained anger both at our inability to be humanitarian and the follies that get carried out in that word’s name. Now into his fifth decade of recording, Wyatt had done whatever is the polar opposite of mellowing. Hearing Wyatt combine such inspirational common sense thinking, with what was now his trademark intuitively baleful voice and beguiling arrangements, was to hear an artist at the height of their powers.

Robert Wyatt & friends, Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 (2005)
Convening something of a supergroup to play through Rock Bottom upon its release in 1974, the cast Wyatt assembled is testament both to the high regard he has always been held in – along with his natural ability to blur boundaries between such constraints as the mainstream and the avant-garde. Here the assorted heavyweights: Mike Oldfield and Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason lock with the avant jazz sensibilities of Mongezi Feza, Julie Tippetts and Fred Frith. The result is a glorious sound that frequently edges towards chaos and back with Wyatt’s scat falsetto soaring above proceedings like a dove. The Rock Bottom tracks take on a dreamy physical shape, ‘Alifi B’ starts with Wyatt miaowing before the band begin turning Drury Lane into the Fillmore West. Listening to Wyatt and Tippetts duetting on ‘I’m A Believer” as all hell breaks loose around them is to be transported into the front row to witness a very kind of Robert Wyatt magic.

‘Comicopera’ (2007)
The 16 track ‘Comicopear’ was produced by Robert himself, and recorded at his home in Louth as well as Phil Manzanera’s Gallery Studio. ‚Comicopera‘ is divided into three Acts – ‚Lost in Noise‘, ‚The Here and The Now‘, and ‚Away with the Fairies‘, and is initially more diverse and live sounding than it’s predecessor ‚Cuckooland‘.

THE CULT – LOVE

wird (im September) von Beggars Banquet neu aufgelegt, sowohl als Expanded-Doppel-CD wie auch als „Omnibus Edition“ mit 4 CDs (Original Album Remastered, Singles, Demos, Live).

The Expanded Edition is a 2 disc set and is packaged in a slim-line jewel case inside a card slipcase, with new notes by the journalist James Brown (ex-editor of GQ).

Designed to cater for the more committed fan, the Omnibus Edition is presented as a limited edition 4 disc box set with the CD’s housed in Japanese-style paper sleeves, reproducing the original vinyl cover art. Along with the James Brown liner notes, the 48 page book features unseen contact sheets from the album photo session and a chronology of contemporaneous quotes by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy that illuminate the status of the band at that point in their career.

Disc One LOVE
Nirvana
Big Neon Glitter
Love
Brother Wolf; Sister Moon
Rain
Phoenix
Hollow Man
Revolution
She Sells Sanctuary
Black Angel

Re-mastered from the original studio analogue tapes.

“1985’s Love displayed a marked improvement over the Cult’s early material, and though it remains underappreciated in America (worldwide it was a smash), this exceptional record has actually aged better than the band’s more notorious (and equally important) releases: Electric and Sonic Temple. Equal parts psychedelic hard rock and new wave goth, the songs on Love emanate a bright guitar sheen, tight arrangements, crisp drumming, and a command performance from vocalist Ian Astbury, who as usual says a lot more with less than most singers. Overall, the album benefits from a wonderful sense of space, thanks in large part to guitarist Billy Duffy (who is much more subdued here than on future releases), whose restraint is especially notable on “Revolution” and the remarkably uncluttered title track. Duffy also provides compelling melodies (“Hollow Man,” “Revolution”), driving riffs (“Nirvana,” “The Phoenix”), and even a U2-like intro to “Big Neon Glitter.” Also on offer is the near-perfect “She Sells Sanctuary” and the smash hit “Rain,” quite possibly the band’s most appealing single ever. Considering the musical schizophrenia that would plague each subsequent Cult release, Love just may be the band’s purest moment.” – Eduardo Rivadavia – All Music Guide

Disc Two SINGLES
She Sells Sanctuary (Long Version)
No.13
The Snake
(Here Comes The) Rain
Little Face
Revolution (Full Length Remix)
Judith
Sunrise
All Souls Avenue
She Sells Sanctuary (Howling Mix)
Assault On Sanctuary
Featuring all the tracks from the album’s three singles which included extended versions of album cuts, remixes and non-album ‘B’ sides. This is the first time all these tracks have been presented together outside of the limited, Rare Cult box set released in 2000.

Disc Three DEMOS
Brother Wolf; Sister Moon
Hollow Man
She Sells Sanctuary
All Souls Avenue
Little Face
No. 13
Big Neon Glitter
Waltz (Instrumental)
Nirvana (Instrumental)
Revolution (Instrumental)
She Sells Sanctuary (Olympic Mix)

Ten tracks were recorded in early 1985 as demos to play to potential producers. Mostly performed live in the studio, these raw versions are an insight into the genesis of the album and have never been released before. Additionally there is a bonus of a rough monitor mix from Olympic Studios of ‘She Sells Sanctuary’ before new vocals and a remix were completed at another studio.

Disc Four 1985 LIVE
Love
Nirvana
Christians
Hollow Man
Big Neon Glitter
Brother Wolf; Sister Moon
Rain
Dreamtime
She Sells Sanctuary
Go West
Spiritwalker
Horse Nation
Phoenix

Recorded on the Love UK tour by the BBC on 31 October at Hammersmith Odeon, London, this thirteen song set featured songs from the newly released Love album alongside established favourites from their debut release Dreamtime and earlier Death Cult days.

Beides ist auch bereits bei amazon.de gelistet, leider noch mit überhöhten Preisen, siehe:

http://www.amazon.de/Love-Cult/dp/B002F3BP8Q/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249534890&sr=1-2

http://www.amazon.de/Love-Omnibus-Cult/dp/B002GU605G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1249534890&sr=1-1

Preiswerter geht es aber auch schon bei jpc:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Cult-Love-Exp-Ocrd/hnum/9789583

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/Cult-Love-omnibus-edtion/hnum/1065922

Und beim 4CD-Set geht es (mit derzeit 20.99 EUR) noch preisgünstiger bei play:

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/11102982/Love/Product.html

ELBOW – ASLEEP IN THE DARK (2CD/DVD Deluxe Edition Set)

A hugely expanded version of Elbow’s debut album. Comes with a second disc of bonus tracks including live. Disc 3 is a DVD with masses of unreleased video clips and tracks recorded live at the Astoria.

Track Listing
Disc 1
1. any day now album version
2. red album version
3. little beast album version
4. powder blue album version
5. bitten by the tail fly album version
6. asleep in the back album version
7. newborn album version
8. don’t mix your drinks album version
9. presuming ed album version
10. coming second album version
11. can’t stop album version
12. scattered black and whites album version

Disc 2
1. Powder Blue Noisebox EP Version
2. Red Noisebox EP Version
3. Theme From Munroe Kelly Noizebox EP Version
4. Can’t Stop Noisebox EP Version
5. Bitten By The Tail Fly Live At the Astoria
6. Coming Second Live at the Astoria
7. Don’t Mix Your Drinks Live at the Astoria
8. Can’t Stop Live at the Astoria
9. Scattered Black and Whites Live at the Astoria
10. George Lassoes The Moon Live at the Astoria
11. Newborn Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously unreleased
12. Don’t Mix Your Drinks Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously Unreleased
13. Red Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously Unreleased

Disc 3
1. Any Day Now Previously Unreleased Video
2. Red Previously Unreleased Video
3. Little Beast Previously Unreleased Video
4. Powder Blue Previously Unreleased Video
5. Bitten By The Tail Fly Previously Unreleased Video
6. Asleep In The Back Previously Unreleased Video
7. Newborn Previously Unreleased Video
8. Don’t Mix Your Drinks Previously Unreleased Video
9. Presuming Ed (Rest Easy) Previously Unreleased Video
10. Coming Second Previously Unreleased Video
11. Can’t Stop Previously Unreleased Video
12. Scattered Black and Whites Previuously Unreleased Video
13. Powder Blue Noisebox EP Version
14. Red Noisebox EP Version
15. Theme From Munroe Kelly Noizebox EP Version
16. Can’t Stop Noisebox EP Version
17. Bitten By The Tail Fly Live At the Astoria
18. Coming Second Live at the Astoria
19. Don’t Mix Your Drinks Live at the Astoria
20. Can’t Stop Live at the Astoria
21. Scattered Black and Whites Live at the Astoria
22. George Lassoes The Moon Live at the Astoria
23. Newborn Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously unreleased
24. Don’t Mix Your Drinks Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously Unreleased
25. Red Radio 1 Lamacq Session Previously Unreleased

GARY BURTON & CHICK COREA – „CRYSTAL SILENCE“ (4CD)

Release Date: 7 Sep 2009
Label: ECM
Format: CD (four box set)

ECM is to issue a box set of Gary Burton and Chick Corea’s Crystal Silence: The ECM Recordings, 1972-79 a four-CD set on 7 September. The box brings together the influential and bestselling 1972 album Crystal Silence, along with the Grammy-winning Duet (recorded in 1978) and In Concert, Zürich, October 28, 1979. Two live selections, ‘I’m Your Pal/Hullo Bolinas’ and ‘Love Castle’, appear on CD for the first time in this collection. „This 1973 album of piano and vibraphone duets helped to put ECM Records on the map. Others might trace a line that began here and led to the wallpaper monotony of new age music. But Burton and Corea can’t be held responsible for that. CRYSTAL SILENCE is filled with invention, surprise, humor, sadness, and tremendous verve. The interplay is perfect–the two instruments dance around one another and merge into a single voice. It also helps that the material is equal to these two fine players, always spurring them on. There are five pieces by Corea, three more by bass player Steve Swallow (who worked with Burton through most of the sixties), and one by British composer Michael Gibbs. What is most striking is the manner in which a melody can start on one instrument and then continue on the other. They pass themes and embellishments back and forth with the ease of a weaver. This is an exceptional album of great beauty“