Comicopera

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Length 1:00:15 Comicopera(2007) – Producer Robert Wyatt		Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8 September 1974(2005) Comicopera(2007) Release date 8 October 2007 Label Domino Recording Company

Released 8 October 2007 (2007-10-08) Artists Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt / Jo Bogaert / Blissphemy Genres Rock music, Jazz, Progressive rock, Jazz fusion, Experimental rock, Worldbeat Similar Robert Wyatt albums, Progressive rock albums

Comicopera

Comicopera is an album by Robert Wyatt released on 8 October 2007, available on both CD and double vinyl formats (the vinyl's fourth side contains no music and has a poem etched into its surface). It is Wyatt's first release on the Domino Records label. It features many other musicians, including Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Gilad Atzmon and Phil Manzanera, and was recorded in Wyatt's house and Manzanera's recording studio. The song Del Mondo is a cover from Ko de mondo, the second album of Italian post-punk band Consorzio Suonatori Indipendenti.

The album was voted by Wire magazine as best of the year in 2007.

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Track listing

Act One: Lost in Noise

"Stay Tuned" (Anja Garbarek) – 3:49
"Just as You Are" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 4:21
"You You" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 4:22
"A.W.O.L." (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 2:56
"Anachronist" (Wyatt) – 3:28

Act Two: The Here and the Now

"A Beautiful Peace" (Wyatt, Brian Eno) – 2:27
"Be Serious" (Wyatt) – 2:56
"On the Town Square" (Wyatt) – 5:26
"Mob Rule" (Wyatt) – 2:16
"A Beautiful War" (Wyatt, Brian Eno) – 2:40
"Out of the Blue" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 3:41

Act Three: Away With the Fairies

"Del Mondo" (Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Massimo Zamboni, Gianni Maroccolo, Francesco Magnelli, Giorgio Canali) – 3:29
"Cancion de Julieta" (Federico García Lorca, Wyatt) – 7:32
"Pastafari" (Orphy Robinson) – 4:37
"Fragment" (Alfreda Benge, Wyatt) – 1:38
"Hasta Siempre Comandante" (Carlos Puebla) – 4:37

Personnel

Robert Wyatt – voice, piano, percussion, keyboards, trumpet, cornet, pocket trumpet, guitar, old metronome, karenotron (voice of Karen Mantler), enotron (voice of Brian Eno), monicatron (voice of Monica Vasconcelos)

Brian Eno – keyboards, effects

Seaming To – voice, clarinet

Annie Whitehead – trombone, baritone horn

Yaron Stavi – bass violin

Monica Vasconcelos – voice

Paul Weller – guitar

Gilad Atzmon – saxophones, tenor saxophone, clarinet

Jamie Johnson – bass guitar

Dave Sinclair – piano

Phil Manzanera – guitar

Del Bartle – guitar

Orphy Robinson – steelpan, vibraphone