Flapdoodle
10-24-2007, 02:15 AM
Robert Wyatt - British singer/songwriter/musician has a new CD out called "Comicopera". Wyatt has been around since the late 1960s, when he was the drummer with "Soft Machine", one of the groundbreaking jazz-fusion acts of the 1970s. Since then he's been solo and wheelchair bound after breaking his back in an accident.
He's highly regarded by critics and something of a cult figure in the British music scene - he's also an original. I don't imagine many people in the US have heard of him.
Here's a snippet from an interview he gave when he talks about one of his tracks (Be serious) from his new CD.
http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::7:PP
"I sing "I admire Christians and Muslims" in one song, but not because they have a belief in God, but because of the comfort that whatever they do to one another is sanctioned by that belief — even when it is horrific. There are those of us who do not have that comfort, and since we don't, we tend to act a bit more responsibly, because we are facing what's really human in our actions and in the consequences for them."
He's highly regarded by critics and something of a cult figure in the British music scene - he's also an original. I don't imagine many people in the US have heard of him.
Here's a snippet from an interview he gave when he talks about one of his tracks (Be serious) from his new CD.
http://wm01.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=61::7:PP
"I sing "I admire Christians and Muslims" in one song, but not because they have a belief in God, but because of the comfort that whatever they do to one another is sanctioned by that belief — even when it is horrific. There are those of us who do not have that comfort, and since we don't, we tend to act a bit more responsibly, because we are facing what's really human in our actions and in the consequences for them."