Robert Wyatt

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The Wyatt solo years (1980-1989)

26/1/1980, Robert Wyatt, Matrix Studios, sessions for "Arauco/Caimenera" 45"

1. Arauco (Violetta Parra)
2. Caimenera

1.
Bill MacCormick - bass
Robert Wyatt -keyboards, piano, guitar, vocal

2.
Bill MacCormick - bass
Harry Beckett - flugelhorn
Robert Wyatt -keyboards, piano, percussion, vocal

released as Arauco/Caimenera (Rough Trade 3/1980 single) and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)


Cover of Nothing Can Stop Us

30/1/1980, Robert Wyatt, Matrix Studios, sessions for "Stalin Wasn't Stalin/Stalingrad" 45"

1. Stalin Wasn't Stalin (Bill Johnson)
2. Stalingrad (Peter Blackman)

Robert Wyatt - vocals on 1
Peter Blackman - vocals on 2

released as Stalin Wasn't Stalin/Stalingrad (Rough Trade 2/1981 single) and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)

2/1980, Robert Wyatt, Matrix Studios, sessions for "At Last I Am Free/Strange Fruit" 45"

1. At Last I Am Free (Chic)
2. Strange Fruit (Billie Holliday)

Frank Roberts - piano
Mogotsi Mothle - double bass
Robert Wyatt - keyboards, vocals, percussion on 1

released as At Last I Am Free/Strange Fruit (Rough Trade 11/1980 single) and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)

2/1980, Robert Wyatt, Matrix Studios, sessions for "Grass/Trade Union" 45"

1. Grass (Ivor Cutler)
2. Trade Union (Dishari Shilpee Gosthi)

1.
Kadir Durvesh - shehnai
Esmael Shek - tabla
Robert Wyatt - vocals

2. performed by Dishari Shilpee Gosthi:

Abdul Salique - vocals (?)
Kadir Durvesh - shehnai
Esmael Shek - tabla
and several unknown members

released as Grass/Trade Union (Rough Trade 8/1981 single) and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)

3/1980, Kevin Coyne, Alvic Sound, sessions for "Sanity Stomp" LP

disc one:
1. Fat man
2. The monkey man
3. How strange
4. Somewhere in my mind
5. When (see you again?)
6. Taking on the world
7. No romance
8. Too dark (one for the hero)
9. Admit you're wrong
10. Formula eyes
disc two:
1. New Motorway
2. A Loving Hand
3. Fear Of Breathing
4. In Silence
5. Taking On The Bowers
6. Wonderful Wilderness
7. My Wife Says
8. The World Speaks
9. You Can't Kill Us

musicians on the second disc of this double album:

Kevin Coyne - guitar, keyboards, vocals
Brian Godding - guitar, keyboards
Bob Ward - guitar
Robert Wyatt - drums, keyboards, co-composer of 5

released as Sanity Stomp (Virgin 11/1980 LP)

6/1980, The Raincoats, Berry Street, sessions for "Odyshape" LP

Gina Birch - bass, balaphone
Vicky Aspinall - guitar, vocal
Ana da Silva - guitar
Ingrid Weiss - finger cymbal
Robert Wyatt - drums on "And Then It's OK"

released as Odyshape (Rough Trade 6/1981 LP)

6/1980, Vivien Goldman, Berry Street, sessions for "Laundrette/Private Armies" 45"

1. Laundrette
2. Private Armies

Vivien Goldman - vocals
Keith Levene - guitar
Vicky Aspinall - violin
George (Oban) Levi - percussion on 1
Robert Wyatt - percussion on 1

released as Laundrette/Private Armies (Window Wind 8/1981 single)

summer 1980, Robert Wyatt, sessions for "Rangers In The Nights"

1. Rangers In The Nights

Morgan Fisher - tape manipulation
Robert Wyatt - vocals

released on the compilation LP Miniatures (Pipe 11/1980 LP - CD) and on Going Back A Bit: A Little History Of Robert Wyatt (Virgin 1994 CD)

16-20/2/1981, Robert Wyatt, RAI Studios, Rome, Italy, RAI Un Certo Discorso recording

1. Opium Wars (Wyatt)
2. l'Albero Degli Zoceoli (Wyatt)
3. Heathen Have No Soul (Wyatt)
4. Holy War (Wyatt)
5. Billie's Bounce (Charlie Parker)
6. Revolution Without Tears (Wyatt)
7. Born Again Cretin (Wyatt)

Robert Wyatt - vocals, percussion, piano on 1-4 & 7, keyboards on 1-2, 4-5 & 7, jews harp on 3

tracks 5 & 7 released on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)

4/1981, Robert Wyatt, "Born Again Cretin" released

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, piano, percussion, vocals

released on a NME/Rough Trade compilation cassette and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)

4/1981, Scritti Politti, "The Sweetest Girl" released

1. The Sweetest Girl
2. The Sweetest Girl (alternate take)

Green - vocal
Robert Wyatt - keyboards
& some unknown musicians

track 1 released on Songs To Remember (Rough Trade 1982 LP), track 2 released on a NME/Rough Trade compilation cassette C81

5/1981, Epic Soundtracks, Alvic Sound, sessions for "Popular Classical" 45"

Epic Soundtracks - piano, bass, drums, harmony vocal
Vicky Aspinall - violin
Georgie Born - cello
Flossie (Robert & Alfie's dog) - barks
Robert Ellidge (= Robert Wyatt) - (muddy) mouth on "Jelly, Babies"

released as Popular Classical (Rough Trade 8/1981 single)

7/8/1981, Robert Wyatt, Wave Studio, sessions for "The Animals Film"

1. The Animals Film

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, piano, percussion, vocals

released as The Animals Film (Rough Trade 5/1982 LP - Rough Trade CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

28-29/8/1981, Robert Wyatt, Wave Studio, sessions for "The Internationale"

1. The Internationale

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, percussion, vocal

released on The Recommended Records Sampler LP (ReR 1/5/1982 LP) and on Going Back A Bit : A Little History Of Robert Wyatt (Virgin 1994 CD)

summer 1981, Robert Wyatt, wave Studio, sessions for "Red Flag"

1. Red Flag

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, percussion, vocal

released on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade/Hannibal/Thirsty Ear CD)

summer (?), 1981, Robert Wyatt, Wave Studio, sessions for "So That You Can Live" film soundtrack

Robert Wyatt - piano, keyboards

summer (?), 1981, Robert Wyatt, Wave Studio, sessions for City Limits radio advertisement

Bill Patterson - speaker
Robert Wyatt - keyboards, percussion

broadcast on Capital Radio

summer (?), 1981, Shiny Men, Wave Studio, sessions for "Again" LP

group members credited under pseudonym
Robert Wyatt - singing, scat gurgling on "Dream Pussy"

released as Again (Experimental 10/1981 LP)

12/1981, Ben Watt, Alvic Sound, sessions for "Summer Into Winter" EP

1. Walter And John
2. Aquamarine
3. Slipping slowly
4. Another conversation with myself
5. A girl in winter

Ben Watt - vocals, guitar
Robert Wyatt - piano on 1 & 5, vocal on 1

released as Summer Into Winter (Cherry Red 4/1982 EP) and on North Marine Drive (Cherry Red 1987 CD)

1981, Oxy and the Morons, ??

Robert Wyatt - vocals, piano on "War"

winter 1982, Marsha Hunt, Redan Recorder, sessions for "Man To Women" 45"

musicians uncredited except:

Marsha Hunt - vocal
Jeanette Landrey - vocal
Eddie Kemp - vocal
Christine Ellerbeck - vocal
Robert Wyatt - vocal on "All She Wanted Was Marlon Brando"

"All She Wanted" released on Going Back A Bit : A Little History Of Robert Wyatt (Virgin 1994 CD)

spring (?) 1982, Scritti Politti, Berry Street, sessions for "Asylums In Jerusalem/Jacques Derrida" 45"

1. Asylums In Jerusalem
2. Jacques Derrida
3. A Slow Soul

Green - vocals, guitar
Joe Gang - bass
Nial Jinks - bass
Lorenza, Mae, Jackie - chorus
Tom Morley - Linn drums
Robert Wyatt - keyboards on 1-2, perhaps 3 (?)

tracks 1 and 2 released as Asylums In Jerusalem/Jacques Derrida (Rough Trade 7/1982 single) and tracks 1-3 on Songs To Remember (1982 LP)

spring 1982, Robert Wyatt, home, sessions for "Round Midnight"

1. Round Midnight

Dave MacRae - piano, synthesizer
Robert Wyatt - vocal

released on a NME compilation cassette called Mighty Reel (10/1982 tape) and on Mid-Eighties (Rough Trade 1993 CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

spring 1982, Robert Wyatt, home, sessions for "Memories Of You"

1. Memories Of You

Dave MacRae - piano, synthesizer
Robert Wyatt - vocal

released on Shipbuilding/Memories Of You (Rough Trade 8/1982 single) and on Mid-Eighties (Rough Trade 1993 CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

23/7/1982, Robert Wyatt, Eden Studios, sessions for "Shipbuilding" 45

1. Shipbuilding

Clive Langer - organ
Steve Nieve - piano
Mark Bedford - double bass
Martin Hughes - drums
Elvis Costello - backing vocals
Robert Wyatt - percussion, vocals

released on Shipbuilding/Memories Of You (Rough Trade 8/1982) and on Nothing Can Stop Us (Rough Trade 3/1982 LP - Rough Trade CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

1982, Gambit Of Shame, sessions for "Gambit Of Shame/No Bounds" 45"

Robert Wyatt - producer

released as Gambit Of Shame/No Bounds (single)

3/6/1983, Robert Wyatt, BBC Studios, "The Old Grey Whistle Test" TV Filming

1. Born Again Cretin
2. Shipbuilding

Clive Langer - organ
Mark Bedford - double bass
Kiernan O'Connor - drums
Nick Clyfus - piano
Robert Wyatt - vocals

broadcast 3/6/1983

autumn 1983, Working Week, Power Plant, sessions for "Venceremos-We Will Win/Bottom End" EP

1. Venceremos-We Will Win
2. Bottom End

Simon Booth - guitars
Larry Stabbins - soprano sax, tenor sax, flute
Harry Beckett - trumpet, flugelhorn
Annie Whitehead - trombone
Stuart Matthewman - tenor sax
Dave Bitelli - clarinet, baritone sax
Chuchow Mercham - double bass
Kim Burton - piano
Mark Taylor - drums
Dawson - percussion
Bosco D'Oliveira - percussion
Tracey Thorn - vocal on 1
Claudia Figueroa - vocal on 1
Robert Wyatt - vocal on 1

released as Venceremos-We Will Win/Bottom End (Paladin/Virgin 2/1984 EP) and on Payday (Venture 1987 LP/CD)

19/12/1983, Robert Wyatt, Blackwing Studios, sessions for "Amber And The Amberines"

1. Amber And The Amberines

Hugh Hopper - Casio keyboard
Robert Wyatt - Wasp keyboard, vocal

released on the NME cassette compilation Dept. Of Enjoyment (1984 tape) and (in a different mix) on Work In Progress (Rough Trade 8/1984 EP); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

spring, 1984, Robert Wyatt, Blackwing Studios, sessions for "Work In Progress" EP

1. Biko (Peter Gabriel)
2. Yolanda (P. Milanes)
3. Te Recuerdo Amanda (V. Jara)
4. War Without Blood (Wyatt/unknown)

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, percussion, vocals

tracks 1-3 released on Work In Progress (Rough Trade 8/1984 EP); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box), track 4 released on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)

19/6/1984, Robert Wyatt, Blackwing Studios, sessions for "This Is The End"

1. This Is The End

Alfreda Benge - vocal
Robert Wyatt - percussion, vocals

released on the first thousand copies of Work In Progress (Rough Trade 8/1984 EP) and on Mid-Eighties (Rough Trade 1993 CD)

31/10/1984, Various, Cold Storage, sessions for "The Last Nightingale" EP

1. Moments Of Delight
2. In The Dark Year

Lindsay Cooper - piano, electric piano, bassoon, sopranino sax
Chris Cutler - drums, etc.
Bill Gilonis - guitar, bass
Tim Hodgkinson - piano, Moog, baritone sax, alto sax
Robert Wyatt - vocals

released on The Last Nightingale (Re 11/1984 EP)

14/11/1984, Robert Wyatt, West 3 Studios, sessions for "Old Rottenhat" LP

1. Castles Built On Sand
2. Old School Ties
3. East Timor
4. PLA
5. Chairman Mao

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, drums, vocals

track 5 released on "Re Records Quarterly Vol. 2 No. 2" (9/1986 LP) and on Mid-Eighties (Rough Trade 1993 CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

30/8/1985, Robert Wyatt with The SWAPO Singers, Powerplant, sessions for "The Wind Of Change/Naimibia" 45"

1. The Wind Of Change
2. Naimibia

Jerry Dammers - piano, synthesizers, guitar
Ben Mendelsohn - guitar
Lynval Golding - rhythm guitar
Mark Lockheart - soprano sax
Claire Hurst - saxophone
Dick Cuthell - cornet
Annie Whitehead - trombone
Ernest Mogotsi Mothle - double bass
Roy Dodds - drums
Bience Gawanas - vocal
Vaino Shivute - vocal
Lohmeier Angula - vocal
Theo Angula - vocal
Clarina Simbwayi - vocal
Richard Muzira - vocal
Robert Wyatt - vocal on 1

released as The Wind Of Change/Naimibia (Rough Trade 10/1985 single) and track 1 released on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)


Cover of Old Rottenhat

summer 1985, Robert Wyatt, Acre Lane Studios, sessions for "Old Rottenhat" LP

1. Alliance
2. The United States Of Amnesia
3. East Timor
4. Speechless
5. The Age Of Self
6. Vandalusia
7. The British Road
8. Mass Medium
9. Gharbzadegi
10. P.L.A.

Robert Wyatt - keyboards on 1-8 & 10, piano on 9, percussion on 2-5, 7 & 9-10, vocals
Alfreda Benge - vocal on 9

released as Old Rottenhat (Rough Trade 11/1985 LP - Rough Trade CD)

9/1985, Akimbo, "So Long Trouble" EP released

further details unknown

Robert Wyatt - vocal on "The Machine", human woodblock on "The Criminal"

released on So Long Trouble (FSIF 9/1985 LP)

26/11/1985, News From Babel, Cold Storage, sessions for "Letters Home" LP

1. Who Will Accuse ?
2. Heart Of Stone (Megalopolis)
3. Banknote
4. Moss
5. Dragon At The Core
6. Dark Matter
7. Waited
8. Fast Food
9. Late Evening

Lindsay Cooper - piano, keyboards, bassoon, sopranino sax, alto sax
Chris Cutler - drums, percussion
Zeena Parkins - harp, accordion
Bill Gilonis - guitar, bass
Dagmar Krause - vocals
Sally Potter - vocals
Phil Minton - vocals
Robert Wyatt - vocals on 1-2, 4 & 9

released as Letters Home (ReR 7/1986 LP - ReR CD)

spring (?) 1986, Robert Wyatt, Blackwing Studios, sessions for "Pigs... (In There)"

1. Pigs... (In There)

Robert Wyatt - keyboards, percussion, vocal

released on Artists For Animals compilation (Slip 9/1986 LP) and on Mid-Eighties (Rough Trade 1993 CD); also on EPs (Hannibal/Thirsty Ear 1999 CD-box)

8/1986, Paul Haines, sessions for "Darn It" CD

1. Curtzy

Evan Parker - soprano sax
Robert Wyatt - piano, keyboards, drums, vocals

released on Darn It (American Clave 1993 CD)

9 or 10/1986, Michael Mantler, West 3 Studio, sessions for "Many Have No Speech" LP

1. Introduction
2. Just As Someone
3. Ce Qu'a De Pis
4. Alles Scheint Rand
5. Imagine
6. In The End
7. Vieil Aller
8. Rien Nul
9. Tant De Temps
10. En Face
11. Chaque Jour
12. PSS
13. En Cadence
14. Something There
15. Comrade
16. Den Atem Ausgetauscht
17. A l'Abbattoir
18. And What
19. d'Ou La Voix
20. Fous Qui Disiez
21. Merk, Jetzt
22. Son Ombre
23. Reve
24. Life Connects
25. Prisonniers
26. Silence
27. Viele Haben Keine Sprache

The Danish Radio Concert Orchestra
Michael Mantler - trumpet
Rick Fenn - guitar
Marianne Faithfull - vocals
Jack Bruce - vocals
Robert Wyatt - vocals on 9, 17 & 25

released as Many Have No Speech (German Watt 5/1988 LP/CD)

12/11/1986, Robert Wyatt, TV3 Studios, Barcelona, Spain, Arsenal TV Filming

1. Born Again Cretin

Robert Wyatt - vocal, piano

broadcast 4/2/1987

31/1/1987, Robert Wyatt, TV3 Studios, Barcelona, Spain, sessions for Atlas TV

Robert Wyatt - keyboard, percussions, scissors

released on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)

19/2/1987, Claustrofobia, Aprila Studios, Barcelona, Spain, sessions for "Repulsion" LP

1. Tu Traicion

Pedro Burruezo - guitars, vocal
Maria Jose Pena - piano
Antoni Baltar - drum programming, bass synthesizer
Robert Wyatt - vocal

released on Repulsion (Justine summer 1987 LP) and on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)

9/1988, C.T.I., "Core - A Conspiracy International Project" LP released

1. Unmasked
2. Core

Chris Carter - keyboards, percussion, vocals
Cosey Fanni Tutti - keyboards, percussion, vocals
Robert Wyatt - vocals

released as Core - A Conspiracy International Project (BIAS 9/1988 LP - 1991 CD)

autumn 1989, Ryuichi Sakamoto, home, Louth, sessions for "Beauty" LP

6. We Love You (Jagger/Richards)

Dali Kimoko-N'Dala - guitar
Paco Ye - percussion, vocal
Sibiri Outtara - percussion, vocal
Seidou 'Baba' Outtara - percussion, vocal
Pino Palladino - bass
Milton Cordona - shekere
Yoriko Ganeko - vocal
Misako Koja - vocal
Kazumi Tamaki - vocal
Ryuichi Sakamoto - keyboards, vocal
Brian wilson - vocals
Robert Wyatt - lead vocal

released on Beauty (Virgin 3/1990 LP/CD)

12/12/1989, The Happy End, Axis Studios, Sheffield, sessions for "Turn Things Upside Down" LP

1. Turn Things Upside Down

22-piece big band
Robert Wyatt - vocals

released on Turn Things Upside Down (Cooking Vinyl 4/1990 LP) and on Flotsam Jetsam (Rough Trade 1994 CD)

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