Album
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
1975 · Jazz, Rock
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard is a Rock album by Robert Wyatt, originally released in 1975. On Gatefold: 35 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
The Soft Machine’s Robert Wyatt was determined to create a solo career as abstract and fanciful as his experimental days in the group. His unconventional melodic sense combined with his desire to work with unorthodox musicians such as Fred Frith and Gary Windo practically guaranteed that he would create compositions that swung far from pop music into the no-man’s-land of art song and jazz-rock. <i>Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard</i> is the follow-up to <i>Rock Bottom</i>, an album that suggested great personal struggle as Wyatt adapted to life in a wheelchair after a multiple-story fall that broke his spine. Many of the tracks here are earlier tunes that Wyatt polished off for popular consumption. “Solar Flares” adds a keyboard choir that meshes with the voices that sound as if they were coming from inside Wyatt’s head. “5 Black Notes and 1 White Note” wanders like a somber march through the barren winter woods. Charlie Haden’s “Song For Che” ends things on an elegiac note.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Soup Song5:00
- A2Sonia4:12
- A3Team Spirit8:26
- A4Song For Che3:36
Side B
- B1Muddy Mouse (A)0:50
- B2Solar Flares5:35
- B3Muddy Mouse (B)0:50
- B45 Black Notes And 1 White Note4:58
- B5Muddy Mouse (C) / Muddy Mouth6:11
Sound DNA
- Rock
- Prog Rock
- warm
- playful
- cerebral
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
First issue with twin logo over a red dragon on the labels (coloured Roger Dean label).
Inner sleeve is black paper over plastic polyethylene, white Virgin logo and data over black background.
Recorded and mixed at the Manor, except A2, recorded at CBS London.
From wolves, wild boars, unicorns etc.
Ivor Cutler, Al Clark for Mental Health
Dave Macrae for Pacific Influence
Malcolm Ritchie for Paperweightlifting
Peter Schmidt, Brian Eno for Oblique Strategies
Mike, Steve, Steve, Susie and Barbara for letting
Us use their wonderful hotel as a recording studio
Runouts are stamped.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Bill MacCormickBASS BASS GUITAR
- Brian EnoFEATURING GUITAR, SYNTHESIZER
- Fred FrithPIANO
- Gary WindoALTO SAXOPHONE, BASS CLARINET ALTO SAXOPHONE, TENOR SAXOPHONE ALTO SAXOPHONE, TENOR SAXOPHONE, CLARINET
- George KhanBARITONE SAXOPHONE SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, TENOR SAXOPHONE TENOR SAXOPHONE
- John GreavesBASS BASS GUITAR
- Laurie AllanDRUMS
- Mongezi FezaTRUMPET
- Nisar Ahmad KhanBARITONE SAXOPHONE SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, TENOR SAXOPHONE SOPRANO SAXOPHONE, TENOR SAXOPHONE, CLARINET
- Robert WyattDRUMS, PIANO ELECTRIC PIANO PIANO
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 35 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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