The discography of Robert Wyatt, a retired English musician, consists of eight solo studio albums, six archival/collaborations albums, ten compilation albums, two boxed sets, nine EPs and 15 singles. He has also appeared as a guest musician on a large number of albums by other artists.
| Robert Wyatt discography | |
|---|---|
| Studio albums | 8 |
| EPs | 9 |
| Compilation albums | 10 |
| Singles | 15 |
| Archival albums | 3 |
| Remix albums | 1 |
| Collaborative albums | 3 |
| Box sets | 2 |
Between 1966 and 1971 Wyatt was drummer and vocalist for the Canterbury scene band Soft Machine and played on the first four of the band's albums: The Soft Machine (1968), Volume Two (1969), Third (1970) and Fourth (1971).
Albums
editStudio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1][2] |
UK Indie [3] |
BEL (FL) [4] |
FRA [5] |
IT [6] |
SWE [7] | ||
| The End of an Ear | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Rock Bottom | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — |
| Old Rottenhat |
|
— | 4 | — | — | — | — |
| Dondestan |
|
— | — | — | — | — | — |
| Shleep |
|
136 | 35[8] | — | — | — | — |
| Cuckooland |
|
173 | 20[9] | — | 59 | 49 | — |
| Comicopera |
|
85 | 8[10] | 63 | 41 | 48 | 52 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
Archival albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| IT [6] | ||
| Theatre Royal Drury Lane 8th September 1974 |
|
73 |
| Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981 |
|
— |
| '68 |
|
— |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||
Remix albums
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| Dondestan (Revisited) |
|
Collaborative albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [2] |
UK Indie [11] |
FRA [5] |
US Jazz [12] | ||
| Musik: Rearranging the 20th Century |
|
— | — | — | — |
| ...For the Ghosts Within |
|
150 | 18 | 120 | 24 |
| KiTsuNe / Brian the Fox |
|
— | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||
Compilation albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [3][13] |
BEL (FL) [4] | ||
| Nothing Can Stop Us |
|
4 | — |
| 1982–1984 |
|
— | — |
| Late '70's – Early '80's |
|
— | — |
| Compilation |
|
— | — |
| Mid-Eighties |
|
— | — |
| Going Back a Bit: A Little History of Robert Wyatt |
|
— | — |
| Flotsam Jetsam |
|
— | — |
| Solar Flares Burn for You |
|
— | — |
| His Greatest Misses |
|
— | — |
| Different Every Time |
|
26 | 191 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart. | |||
Box sets
edit| Title | Album details |
|---|---|
| EPs |
|
| Robert Wyatt Box Set |
|
EPs
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| UK Indie [3] | ||
| Summer Into Winter |
|
— |
| The Animals Film |
|
18 |
| Work in Progress |
|
2 |
| 4 Track EP |
|
— |
| The Last Nightingale |
|
10 |
| The Peel Sessions |
|
36 |
| A Short Break |
|
— |
| The Garden of Love |
|
— |
| Hot Chip with Robert Wyatt and Geese | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||
Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK [1] |
UK Indie [3] |
NZ [16] | ||
| "I'm a Believer" | 1974 | 29 | — | — |
| "Yesterday Man" | 1977 | — | — | — |
| "Arauco" | 1980 | — | 10 | — |
| "At Last I Am Free" | — | 18 | — | |
| "Stalin Wasn't Stallin'" | 1981 | — | 26 | — |
| "Grass" | — | 14 | — | |
| "Shipbuilding" | 1982 | 35 | 1 | 27 |
| "The Wind of Change" (with the Swapo Singers) | 1984 | 86 | 3 | — |
| "Chairman Mao" (Italy-only release) | 1987 | — | — | — |
| "Free Will and Testament" | 1997 | — | — | — |
| "This Summer Night" (with Bertrand Burgalat) | 2007 | — | — | — |
| "What a Wonderful World" (with Gilad Atzmon and Ros Stephen; promo-only release) | 2010 | — | — | — |
| "Stella Maris" (with Boris Grebenshchikov; Russia-only release) | 2015 | — | — | — |
| "Ibrahim" (The Great Divide featuring Robert Wyatt) | 2016 | — | — | — |
| "Tutti Shrutti" (Future Pilot A.K.A. featuring Robert Wyatt) | 2019 | — | — | — |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | ||||
Tributes
edit| Year | Album | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Different You - Robert Wyatt e Noi | (various) |
| 2000 | Soupsongs Live: The Music of Robert Wyatt | (various, featuring Julie Tippetts, Ian Maidman, Annie Whitehead, Didier Malherbe, George Khan, Harry Beckett, Phil Manzanera, Janette Mason, Steve Lamb & Liam Genockey) |
| 2001 | MW pour Robert Wyatt | (various) |
| 2009 | Around Robert Wyatt | Orchestre National de Jazz |
| 2011 | The Songs of Robert Wyatt and Antony & the Johnsons | The Unthanks |
| 2018 | What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing | Janek Schaefer |
| 2019 | Folly Bololey | North Sea Radio Orchestra |
Appearances
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- Backing vocals on The Animals' Love Is (1968)[17]
- Drums on most of Kevin Ayers Joy of a Toy (1969)
- Drums on two tracks of Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs (1970)
- Harmony vocals on "Whatevershebringswesing" on Kevin Ayers's Whatevershebringswesing (1971)
- Drums and vocals on Daevid Allen Banana Moon (1971)
- Drums on The Keith Tippett Group Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening (1971)
- Drums on Keith Tippett's Centipede Septober Energy (1971)
- Drums on Don "Sugarcane" Harris Sugar Cane's Got the Blues (1971)
- Harmony vocals on "Hymn" on Kevin Ayers Bananamour (1973)
- Percussion on Kevin Ayers June 1, 1974 (1974)
- Percussion and backing vocals on Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)[18]
- 2nd lead vocals on "Calyx" on Hatfield and the North Hatfield and the North (1975)
- Vocals and percussion on Phil Manzanera Diamond Head (1975)
- Vocals on Michael Mantler The Hapless Child (1975/76)
- Vocals on John Cage "Experiences No. 2" and The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs on Jan Steele/John Cage's Voices and Instruments (1976)
- Vocals on Michael Mantler Silence (1976)
- Vocals on "Bad Alchemy" and "Little Red Riding Hood Hits the Road" on Henry Cow Concerts (1976)[19]
- Piano on "1/1" on Brian Eno Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978)
- Recorded a one-minute piano/vocal version of "Strangers In The Night" for the compilation album Miniatures - a sequence of fifty-one tiny masterpieces produced by Morgan Fisher (1980)
- Drums on Kevin Coyne Sanity Stomp (1980)
- Vocals on Nick Mason Fictitious Sports (1981)
- Drums on one track of The Raincoats Odyshape album (1981)
- Keyboards on Scritti Politti Songs to Remember (1982)
- Wyatt released Summer Into Winter in collaboration with Ben Watt (1982), an EP of extra tracks for Watt's 1987 album North Marine Drive
- Vocals on two tracks on The Last Nightingale (1984)[20]
- Vocals on four tracks on News from Babel Letters Home (1986)[21]
- Vocals on three tracks on Michael Mantler Many Have No Speech (1987)
- Vocals on Ultramarine United Kingdoms (1993)
- Vocals on one track on Michael Mantler The School of Understanding (1996)
- Vocals on three tracks on John Greaves Songs (1996)
- Vocals, trumpet, vocal percussions, whistle and backing vocals on one song on Cristina Donà Nido (1999)
- Vocals on Michael Mantler Hide and Seek (2000)
- Vocals on Pascal Comelade September Song EP (2000)
- Vocals on one track on Anja Garbarek Smiling & Waving (2001)
- Vocals on two tracks on Bruno Coulais motion picture soundtrack Travelling Birds (2001)
- Cover version of "Love" on Uncut Presents: Instant Karma 2002; a Tribute to John Lennon (2002)[22]
- Vocals on "Submarine" on Björk's Medúlla (2004)
- Spoken word and trumpet on "Re-arranging the 20th Century" on Gilad Atzmon's Musik (2004)[23]
- Vocals on six tracks on Michael Mantler Review (compilation – 2006)
- Readings on some tracks on Max Richter Songs from Before (2006)
- Cornet on the song "Then I Close My Eyes" on David Gilmour On an Island (2006)
- Vocals on the song "Flies" with Brian Eno on Plague Songs (compilation – 2006)[24]
- Guest cornet on Clear Frame (Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Orphy Robinson) (2007)
- Cornet on the song "Then I Close My Eyes" on David Gilmour Remember That Night (2007)
- Wyattron on "Cold Shoulder" on Kevin Ayers The Unfairground (2007)
- Vocals on "This Summer Night" on Bertrand Burgalat Chéri B.B (2007) – released in 2008 as a limited edition 12" vinyl single (500 copies only)
- Vocals and shared song-writing credits on two tracks for Monica Vasconcelos' album Hih (2008)
- Backing vocals on "I Keep Faith" on Billy Bragg Mr Love & Justice (2008)
- Hand Drums on two songs on Everything That Happens Will Happen Today by David Byrne and Brian Eno (2008)
- "Camouflage" in collaboration with Barbara Morgenstern on her album BM (2008)
- Trumpet and piano on "A Song for Alice" on Paul Weller 22 Dreams album (2008)
- Vocals on Hot Chip (featuring Geese) EP (not the LP of the same name) Made in the Dark (2009)
- Vocals (partly lead, partly backing) and trumpet on some tracks on Jeanette Lindström Attitude and Orbit Control (2009)
- Vocals on "Sad Eyes" on Dave Sinclair album Stream (2011)
- Lead vocals and horn on "When U Love Somebody" and backing vocals on "No Water" on Ian James Stewart's album Junk DNA (2013).[25]
- Vocals, cornet and horn on "Stella Maris" by Robert Wyatt and Boris Grebenshchikov (2015)
- Cornet on the song "The Girl in the Yellow Dress" on David Gilmour Rattle That Lock (2015)
- Vocals, Tenor Horn on the song "Ibrahim" on The Great Divide's Ibrahim EP (2016)
- Trumpet on the song "She Moves With The Fayre" on Paul Weller A Kind Revolution (2017)
- Vocals & Source Sounds on "What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing" on Janek Schaefer What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing LP (2018)
- Vocals on three tracks on Mary Halvorson's Code Girl Artlessly Falling (2020)
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