Robert Wyatt, Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard - 39m 14s

Tracks & Durations

1. Soup Song	4:03
2. Sonia	4:18
3. Team Spirit	8:33
4. Song For Che	3:43
5. Muddy Mouse (a)	0:48
6. Solar Flares	5:36
7. Muddy Mouse (b)	0:50
8. 5 Black Notes and 1 White Note	5:00
9. Muddy Mouse (c); Muddy Mouth	6:15

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Review

Robert Wyatt's voice is as distinctive and subtle an instrument as Tom Waits's or Bessie Smith's. He stretches his vocal chords through alien alto registers with grace, into notes few male singers are comfortable with past puberty. It's not stretching things to compare his work on Ruth to that of the greatest jazz-influenced singers. Wyatt knows how to throw a band together, too, choosing musicians who'll do their respective things complementarily, subtly. If you have trouble with the jazz comparison, dig his group's take on Charlie Haden's "Song for Che." This disc brims with woozy, lush underwater-sounding, underground pop, augmented by chaps like Fred Frith and Brian Eno. It's clever, playful music, ahead of its time because it's timeless and filled with a profound, infectious, children's book-type humor. --Mike McGonigal

Other Versions

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Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 39m 14s

Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard

Tracks: 9, Disk length: 39m 13s (-1m 59s)

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