Cuckooland by Robert Wyatt

Cuckooland

Robert Wyatt

2003

Cuckooland is a Jazz album by Robert Wyatt, originally released in 2003. On Gatefold: 12 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Jazz
  • Jazz Fusion
  • brittle
  • whimsical
  • bohemian

About

Robert Wyatt’s music has always existed in its own time and place. But over the years, that distance has become ever more pronounced. He records with an impressive A-list of musicians — Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Paul Weller — that he can beckon simply by asking. The music answers to its own rhythms, its own sense of irony and its own belief in melody. To describe a tune such as “Old Europe,” in collaboration with his wife, the poet Alfreda Benge, as jazz is admitting that it features horns. There’s much more going on here on each level. Boudleaux Bryant’s “Raining In My Heart” (an instrumental) makes an odd sense among the oddly harmonic piano tunes (“Tom Hay’s Fox”) and the peculiar syntax and orchestration of “Lullaby for Hamza.” “Insensatez” slides towards nightclub pop for the introverted set. “Brian the Fox” throws together an extra synthetic bite with electronic washes that give the entire sound a sense of stationary movement. “La Ahada Yalam” is an instrumental of startling grace and wonder.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Just a Bit5:11
  2. 2Old Europe4:17
  3. 3Tom Hay's Fox3:35
  4. 4Forest7:57
  5. 5Beware5:11
  6. 6Cuckoo Madame5:22
  7. 7Raining In My Heart2:44
  8. 8Lullaby for Hamza5:02
  9. 9Trickle Down6:49
  10. 10Insensatez4:26
  11. 11Mister E4:22
  12. 12Lullaloop3:01
  13. 13Life Is Sheep4:16
  14. 14Foreign Accents3:50
  15. 15Brian the Fox5:33
  16. 16La Ahada Yalam4:16

Credits

Performers

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 12 pressings tracked on Gatefold