The sixth album from this artist from Great Britain.
Robert Wyatt did percussion, keyboards, trumpet, fiddle, bass and vocals here.
He had help from some guests who provided drums, bass, guitars, strings, woodwinds, synths and backing vocals.
His previous studio albums had been bare-bones solo album with only Robert Wyatt and a couple of helpers on the albums. Outside his own studio albums, he was also busy in other projects. There is a wide variety in style and genres on those projects.
Phil Manzera (Quiet Sun, Roxy Music) gave Robert free use of his studio. With a new studio and friends, Robert was able to merge his two musical personas into one persona. The first result of this merger is Shleep.
There is many instruments here. But they are tastefully used with the help of the producer Phil Manzera and Robert's musical visions.
The album starts with a pop song and then moves onto more jazz and folk based songs and pieces of music.
The tempo is mostly like dirges. Slow in other words. Robert's excellent vocals still shines through the many competing instruments.
The quality of the songs may not always be good. But the vocals and the many interesting details makes this a good album. Robert Wyatt still manage to fascinate, bare-bones or on an album like this.
3 points
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