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Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

Primary Artist
Robert Wyatt
Album Title
Comicopera
Release Date
October 8, 2007 
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Review by Thom Jurek
More immediately accessible and warm than Cuckooland, more ambitious than Shleep, Comicopera, in three acts, is the end result of Robert Wyatt looking around and examining the craziness and wild unpredictability in real life in 2007. Knowing one man's opinion of things hardly matters, he brings together musicians from Israel, Spain, England, Norway, Cuba, Brazil, and Colombia in songs that originate with him, but also from these places and Italy. It's full of humor, horror, absurdity, shoulder-shrugging "whatNULL"-styled confusion, exasperation, and even nostalgia, though his particular brand of that is with the eyes wide open. Read More