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Robert Wyatt's status as English institution now equals the unassailable heights that, say, Stephen Fry now inhabits. So much so, that there's a danger of the shy, self-effacing man being swamped by hyperbole. And then, just as you're about to let cynicism into the room, along comes something as wonderful as Around Robert Wyatt, a collaboration between the bearded one and Daniel Yvinec and his French ten-piece Orchestre. It proves Waytt's genius beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The way it does this is by taking Wyatt's work, both self-composed and his most famous cover versions (cf: Shipbuilding) and re-casts them...
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