Domino are extremely proud to release the landmark recordings of Robert Wyatt – one of the most distinguished, visionary, influential and singular catalogues in contemporary music.

Due to the rarity of original copies, and the high prices they fetch, all releases will be made available not just on CD, but also on vinyl at the end of October and early November 2008. This ensures several of the titles: Drury Lane, Shleep & Cuckooland will be making their debut appearance on the LP vinyl format. These releases will be followed, in December, by a Robert Wyatt box set and are preceded on 20 October by the release of ‘This Summer Night’ single, which sees Robert working alongside French producer / composer Bertrand Burgalat.

Old Rottenhat (1985)
Wyatt’s first LP in ten years arrived in the mid-80s and was unsurprisingly poignant in its analysis of the self-regarding destruction meted out by Thatcherism:
“There’s people doing ‘frightfully well” there’s others on the shelf
But never mind the second kind this is The Age Of Self”
Despite the desolate and sombre nature of the subject matter of its songs Old Rottenhat has a steely sparkle at its heart.  Played almost entirely by Wyatt himself, the record captures the sound of an artist in sel-imposed exile brimming with melodic purpose. Often setting his voice with echo against languorous synth drones, the record confirms Wyatt has a DNA that can’t help but achieve a sense of depth, grace and beauty. Overtly minimal, and in its use of refrain and lyrical simplicity, highly poetic, Old Rottenhat contrasts its very real sense of disappointment with the way things are with a determination to wonder at the strength of the human spirit. As Wyatt noted:
“I never associated shouting at people with making the world a better place.