Robert Wyatt - A Short Break (Voiceprint, 1992)

Robert Wyatt est précieux. C'est mon avis, et c'est aussi un fait, une évidence. La moitié de sa discographie ferait partie des disques que j'emporterais sur une île déserte. Dans la foulée de Dondestan, ce Short Break n'en fera malheureusement pas partie. Le problème, c'est qu'il s'agit davantage d'esquisses que de vraies chansons. Les atmosphères sont là, mais inabouties. Alors pourquoi je le poste? Parce que ça reste fascinant! On entend Robert Wyatt dans son monde, dans ses rêves. Plus que des chansons, on entend des fragments de rêves à l'état brut. Robert Wyatt est précieux, je vous le disais!

Robert Wyatt
A Short Break
CD Voiceprint VP108CD (UK, 1992)

01. A Short Break
02. Tubab
03. Kutcha
04. Venti Latir
05. Unmasked

Note : Recorded on 4-track at home, summer 1992.
When Robert Wyatt followed up his welcome return of a CD (Dondestan) with this EP "only" two years later, some fans thought a new era of productivity had hit the reclusive singer. (Alas, it took until 1998 for a full-length follow-up to appear.) A Short Break is a musical scrapbook, a glimpse of half-thought ideas and hints of melody -- atmospheres, not songs. Armed with a lone piano, a set of cymbals, some rudimentary percussion, an organ, and his plaintive voice, Wyatt's pieces are melancholy, sad, and contemplative. They are also, it must be added, not that interesting, and worth listening to only because the man is capable of so much more (it would not have even been released if it was anybody else). Only "Unmasked" could have made it onto Dondestan, and sounds like an outtake.

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