Il existe de nombreux livres consacrés à Robert Wyatt, à Soft Machine, à Canterbury, et nous avons déjà présenté les plus fameux dans notre abécédaire.
Mais nombre d'autres évoquent parfois au détour d'un chapitre tel ou tel épisode de la carrière de Robert Wyatt, soulignent des collaborations musicales inattendues ou s'attardent sur des pépites de son répertoire...
Chaque ouvrage mérite notre attention. Ils concourent, parfois à la marge, à affiner le portrait musical et humain de notre batteur-chanteur-compositeur préféré.
REVUE NON-EXHAUSTIVE DES OUVRAGES QUI FONT LA PART BELLE
A ROBERT WYATT
ET A SON OEUVRE SI PEU CLASSABLE
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Side by Side - Robert Wyatt & Alfie Benge - Selected Lyrics
Faber (2020)
'Taken together Alfie & Robert’s lyrics combine to create a humanist world-view that is at once global & particular. Take it from me: that’s no mean feat.’
Jarvis Cocker
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Different Every Time - The Authorized Biography Of Robert Wyatt
by Marcus O’Dair - Serpent's Tail (2019)
"If you don't believe avant-garde political music can be both playful and polemical, heartfelt and heartbreaking, you need Robert Wyatt in your life." (NME).
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Robert Wyatt - Anthologie du projet MW (80 chansons de Robert Wyatt & Alfreda Benge traduites et illustrées par Jean-Michel Marchetti)
AEncrages & Co (2009) avec un CD original de 8 pistes.
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Ce volumineux ouvrage de 235 pages compile les 6 recueils édités de 1997 à 2008.
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Soft Machine - Out Bloody-Rageous with forewords by Daevid Alle, Hugh Hopper and John Etheridge
by Graham Bennet - S.A.F. Publishing Ltd. (2005)
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L'École de Canterbury - Préface de Jonathan Coe
de Aymeric Leroy - Le Mot et le Reste (2016)
La Bible (735 pages).
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Wrong Movements - A Robert Wyatt History
by Michael King - S.A.F. Publishing Ltd. (1994)
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Stampa Alternativa
Pubblicazione bimestrale - Supplemento al n.3 (1987)
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Shooting at the Moon: The collected lyrics of Kevin Ayers
Faber Music (2019)
Très beau et volumineux recueil des textes des chansons de Kevin Ayers supervisé par sa fille Galen Ayers. Avec un avant-propos de Robert Wyatt.
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ATEM 1975-1979 - Une sélection d'articles et d'interviews
de Gérard Nguyen - Camion Blanc (2010)
"De 1975 à 1979, Atem décidait de défendre les musiques de traverses et publiait 16 numéros tirés de 2 000 à 7 000 exemplaires introuvables aujourd'hui (ceux qui les possèdent les gardent précieusement)... Ce livre contient une sélection d'articles et d'interviews (dont certains inédits) sur la scène dite de Canterbury (Kevin Ayers, Hatfield and the North, Henry Cow, Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt) ... / ... Trente ans plus tard, Atem 1975-1979 permet de nous replonger dans l'âge d'or de la musique..."
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Opinioni e suoni del XX secolo. A colloquio con Robert Wyatt
di Michele Giuseppone - Crac Edizioni (2021)
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La musica rock-progressiva europa
de Al Aprile - Calypso (1979)
La photo de couverture avec Robert Wyatt et Dagmar Krause a été prise lors du concert d'Henry Cow à Rome le 27 juin 1975 sur la Piazza Navona.
Une nouvelle édition sera publiée en 2009 avec Ivor Cutler en couverture.
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Robert Wyatt. Folly Bololy, testi commentati
de Andrea Guerrini - Arcana Edizioni (2019)
"...Un uomo mutante nella forma e nei contenuti, dalla personalità oscura e luminosa, che abbraccia linguaggi altrui per formarne uno proprio, assoluto e inconfondibile. Dall’ascolto di una musica fatta di suoni liberi associati a canoni variabili, e dei testi – liberi pensieri associati a lettere e parole nuove – si traccia un percorso che a partire dall’uomo-artista Wyatt, bipede batterista e autore incatenato, abbraccia la sua società e il suo tempo, del quale egli si è fatto voce cristallina, spezzata e sincera."
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Robert Wyatt - Dalla Viva Voce
Editions Auditorium - Collection Rumori (Milan - 2009).
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Robert Wyatt - Dalla Viva Voce - Nuova ediz.
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Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
de Philippe Gonin - Densité - collection Discogonie (2017 - réédition augmentée en 2021)
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Soft Machine 1968-1981
de Carlo Pasceri - Dischi da leggere vol. 11 (2017)
La collection Dischi da leggere ("Disques à lire") propose des discographies raisonnées des grands groupes de la "rock-génération"ou l'analyse détaillée d'un album icônique. On y trouve Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson mais aussi Deep Purple, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin ou même Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Return To Forever...
Le Soft Machine avec RW couvre les 72 premières pages soit presque la moitié de l'ouvrage.
L'auteur est musicien et cela se lit à défaut de s'entendre car la structure et l'orchestration des morceaux sont parfois finement analysées et je regrette alors que ma connaissance de l'italien soit aussi sommaire...
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June 1st 1974
de Dave Thompson - (2013)
Auteur prolifique (plus de 100 livres au compteur) pour concert mythique, cet ouvrage part d'une idée lumineuse : tracer la destinée musicale des artistes qui, le 1er juin 1974, donnèrent au Rainbow Théâtre de Londres un concert d'autant plus mémorable qu'il réunissait des musiciens aux origines et aux styles aussi distincts que Nico, Kevin Ayers, Brian Eno, John Cale et Robert Wyatt (sans oublier John "Rabbit" Bundrick, Ollie Halsall, Archie Legget, Eddie Sparrow, Liza Strike et les Chanter Sisters).
Sur près de 320 pages, Dave Thomson parcourt les discographies et les comptes-rendus de concert des membres de ce supergroupe d'un soir et met à jour des ramifications qui ont perduré tout au long de leurs carrières respectives...
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Robert Wyatt
de Jean-François Dréan & Philippe Thieyre - Éditions des Accords (2009)
"Quand des gens m'arrêtent dans la rue et me posent la question rituelle : êtes-vous Robert Wyatt ? Je réponds: "I used to be Robert Wyatt" (J'ai été Robert Wyatt)."
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La filosofia di Robert Wyatt - Dadaismo E Voce : Unlimited
de Leonardo Vittorio Arena - Mimesis Edizioni (2014)
Petit opuscule de 70 pages qui cherche à relier l'oeuvre de Robert Wyatt à des philosophes et à leur courant de pensée en s'appuyant sur les nombreuses déclarations politiques et réflexions humanistes que RW a pu faire au cours d'interviews donnés à la presse spécialisée. On repère effectivement au fil des pages les noms de Marx, Engels, Deleuze, Guattari, Marcuse, Stirner, Mao, Nietzsche, Schuon, Heidegger, Gramsci, Hume, Kant, Einstein, Orwell, Dawkins, Platon, Schopenhauer parmi d'autres... (mais pas Spinoza !)
Ce qui, en 70 pages relève tout de même de l'exploit !
La démonstration philosophique est-elle concluante ? je n'en sais trop rien (mon italien m'interdit de donner un quelconque avis autorisé) mais - soyons taquins - cela nous change des sempiternelles références à Syd Barrett et à Jimi Hendrix et les noms de ces géants sonnent dans le contexte agréablement à nos oreilles éberluées.
(A noter dans la même collection: La filosofia di Brian Eno, Franck Zappa, John Cage, David Sylvian, Monk, degli U2 etc.)
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La famille Soft Machine
de J.J. Brunin et P. Dufroc - Fusion (1976)
"De plus, il est à noter que le groupe était doté d'un système d'amplification de plusieurs centaines de Wyatt...".
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shakespeare dans une baignoire suivi de légèrement wyatt
de Pierre Soletti - Dernier Télégramme (2022)
"Le disque
a fini de tourner
sur le plateau
la mer a rangé
ses cheveux
nous voilà
revenus sur terre
sensiblement
différent"
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Impossible de citer tous les livres évoquant Robert Wyatt plus ou moins brièvement tant sa productivité protéiforme a croisé le chemin de tant d'artistes... essayons quand même:
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76 clochards célestes ou presque
de Thomas Vinau - Le Castor Astral (2016)
" ... Ils n'ont pas renoncé. Ils n'ont la plupart du temps pas eu trop de chance non plus. Ils ont bringuebalés, sublimes et admirables, crevards dégénérés jusqu'à nos yeux blessés. Ils étaient peut être malades mais c'est eux qui nous ont soignés de beauté, la vraie, la pure, celle qui ne renonce à aucune réalité...
Richard Brautigan - Arthur Cravan - Moondog - Walt Whitman - Robert-Louis Stevenson - Albert Cossery - Jean-Paul Clébert - Blaise Cendrars - Dan Fante - Roger Gilbert-Lecomte - Charles Bukowski - Skip James - Diogène de Sinope - Lester Young - Daniel Darc - Nicolas Bouvier - Chet Baker - Jehan Rictus - Billie Holiday - Syd Barrett - Norge - Neal Cassady - Jack London - Helno - Robert Wyatt - ..." |
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Making it up as you go along... - Notes from a bass impostor - or A Short Social & Political History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in South London, 1966 -1980
by Bill MacCormick - Iona Books (2024)
" In the 70s I was, somehow, a bass player. In the 80s and 90s, a political organiser, local councillor, and pollster. Since then, I’ve written a few books about the Great War. And now one about my time in the music biz. " |
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Électro - Une anthologie
de Thomas Gaetner - Gründ (2019)
" Ils s'appellent Pierre Henry, Kraftwerk, Larry Levan, Aphex Twin, Jeff Mills, Laurent Garnier, Moodymann, ou encore Mézigue et Todd Terje et contribuent, jour après jour, avec talent et passion, à l'une des aventures musicales les plus inventives de ces 30 dernières années."
Robert Wyatt est cité pour sa collaboration avec Brian Eno sur l'album Music For Airports. |
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John Peel - A Life in Music
by Michael Heatley - Michael O’Mara Books Limited (2004)
"... So
into the Top Gear concept were they that singer/drummer
Robert Wyatt even ad-libbed new lyrics to their song ‘Moon
In June’, which made reference to the programme, recommending
it ‘despite its extraordinary name’ and namechecking
‘mates like Kevin [Ayers], Caravan and the old Pink
Floyd’. Wyatt later explained that the original lyrics had been
written as a joke that had worn thin by the time they arrived
at Maida Vale, so he simply wrote new ones on the spot...". |
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Listen to Psychedelic Rock
by Christian Matijas-Meccas - Greenwood (2020)
"... The Soft Machine is one of the most overlooked and generally forgotten
groups of the psychedelic era. They were at the forefront of the English
psychedelic scene and played many of the scene’s early shows with Pink
Floyd both at the Roundhouse and UFO. Although they were at the birth of
psychedelia, their sound is often described as progressive rock or jazz
fusion. The sheer variety of their music makes it difficult to categorize them
in one or other camp, but that is a complete waste of time; in doing so, we
lose the amazing music of this unique band...". |
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Avant Rock - Experimental music from the Beatles to Björk
by Bill Martin - Open Court Publishing Company (2002)
Plusieurs citations de Robert Wyatt dans cet ouvrage où l'on croise aussi bien Alice Cooper que Xenakis, Yes que Guy Debord ou Kurt Vonnegut (l'index complet donne le tournis). Préface de Robert Fripp. |
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Jimi Hendrix
de Benoît Feller - Albin Michel / Rock & Folk (1976)
Soft Machine qui a croisé la rouite de Jimi Hendrix est cité dans cet ouvrage dans lequel Robert Wyatt y est spécialement remercié (avec John Mc Laughhlin) par l'auteur. |
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London Calling - A Countercultural History of London since 1945
by Barry Miles - Atlantic Books (2010)
"...The Softs’ drummer, Robert Wyatt, told Daniel Spicer:
In those days there was no seating in the Roundhouse so there was lots
of space. A friend of the organist was a motorcyclist and, as another
member of the group, his contribution was to ride around the room to
add a bit of enjoyable sound. He was very sensitive in the way he drove
his motorcycle and it fitted in with the tunes perfectly, as I remember. ..." |
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Hippie
by Barry Miles - Cassell Illustrated (2003)
"...Robert grew up listening to Virgil Thompson, Shostakovich, Bartok, Webern, Monteverdi and Hindemith. His elder brother played Cecil Taylor, Mingus, Ornette Coleman and Duke Ellington... |
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100 %, 100 disques en 100 mots
de Denis Desassis - The Book Edition (2023)
"...vaste puzzle » musical qu’invite l’écrivain et chroniqueur, passant du rock au jazz, du classique à la pop et à la chanson française : Brassens côtoie Led Zeppelin, Camille Pépin, Lou Reed, Robert Wyatt, Stevie Wonder. Bruno Tocanne, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, John Zorn". |
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Revólución to Roxy -
by Phil Manzanera - Wordzworth Publishing (2024)
"...I hope you'll find my family history every bit as fascinating as my music adventures, I'm proud to be related to a Colombian pirate, a spy and and an Italian opera musician." |
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Encyclopedia of British Rock - Party. 1 : Progressive rock & its periphery
by Marquee Special Edition (1990)
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Ressacs - 13 nouvelles sur la mer
de Collectif - Antidata (2019)
"Treize nouvelles sur la mer, mais pas toujours maritimes, où l'on trouvera certes quelques tempêtes, des embarcations diverses, du sable et des coquillages, mais aussi des éléments plus incongrus, comme une virée au cimetière ou une chanson de Robert Wyatt. " |
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Rock Critic - Chroniques de rock'n'roll (1967-1982)
de Alain Dister - Castor Astral (2007)
" Un livre plein d'enthousiasme où l'on croise Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, les Beatles, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, les Sex Pistols, Robert Wyatt et bien d'autres." |
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The prog side of the moon - Suoni e leggende del rock europeo. Anni '70.
di Cesare Rizzi - Giunti Editore (2010)
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The Prog Side of the Moon, ricco di informazioni inedite e di una straordinaria iconografia. Un capitolo è dedicato alla Scuola di Canterbury." |
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Deia Heydays - Apoteosi Deià1960-2000
by Oona Lind Napier and Jackie Waldren (2018)
"The book offers short, to the point, pen portraits of a whole host of artists, musicians and writers who lived and worked in Deia between 1960 and 2000, those Deia heydays." |
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Rock Progresivo : Historia, cultura, artistas y álbumes fundamentales (Guías del Rock & Roll) (Spanish Edition)
by Pérez Ladaga, Eloy - Robinbook, Ediciones S.L. (2018) |
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The Progressive Rock Bible
by Rupert Anderson
- Lulu Publishing (2016)
Une solide (452 pages) compilation de textes issus de Wikipedia sur le "rock progressif." |
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100 classiques rock et leur sens caché
de Axel Du Bus - Editions La Boîte A Pandore (2014)
"... Mais Langer n'est pas totalement satisfait des paroles écrites par Wyatt. Il va alors trouver Elvis Costello. Qui se met aussitôt au travail..." |
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...Really Good Songs - a collection of 48 all-time classic favourites arranged for piano, voice and guitar
Music Sales (2010)
Sea Song is one of the scores in this book. |
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Il suono del progresso - Esplorazioni sonore nel rock progressivo
de Lelio Camilleri - Arcana (2022)
"... Oltre a una panoramica delle varie tipologie di discorsi sonori vengono analizzati in dettaglio i lavori solistici di Robert Wyatt, Hopper, Frank Zappa, e album degli Henry Cow, dei Faust e dei Tangerine Dream..." |
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Prog Rock en 150 figures
de Dominique Dupuis - Editions du Layeur (2020)
Une très courte évocation de Soft Machine dans cette approche du "Prog Rock"... |
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Jimi Hendrix - Every Album, Every Song
by Emma Stott - Sonicbond Publishing (2022)
"... His early work as a session player for acts like The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and even Jayne Mansfield is considered, along with his later work as a guest star on albums by Stephen Stills, Robert Wyatt, and McGear and McGough; and not forgetting his blistering work as a producer for Eire Apparent. ..." |
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A Nord di Londra
di Enrico Fontana - Arcana (2022)
"Gli album di Hatfield and the North e di National Health sono considerati da critici e appassionati come gemme della Scuola di Canterbury e di tutta l’iconografia del progressive inglese. Il suono all’interno dei microsolchi racchiude il compendio di molta della musica che ha caratterizzato il periodo che inizia nel 1965 e termina all’incirca nei dieci/quindici anni successivi. ..." |
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Gong - Every Album, Every Song
by Kevan Furbank - Sonicbond Publishing (2021)
"Musically and spiritually Gong emerged from the whimsical imagination of founder member, Daevid Allen, an Australian who’d travelled to England in the early 60’s to check out the beatnik scene – eventually meeting up with Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayres and Robert Wyatt, who formed the Soft Machine, inadvertently becoming instigators of ‘the Canterbury scene’. " |
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L'âge d'or du rock progressif anglais 1965-1979 - tome 2
de Didier Gonzalez - Camion Blanc (2023)
Un chapitre consacré à Matching Mole... |
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Soft Machine - Every Album, Every Song
by Scott Meze - Sonicbond Publishing (2023)
"Scott Meze is a psychedelic music obsessive born in Britain but based in Tokyo, the music connoisseur's capital of the world. Soft Machine has been one of the abiding loves of his life ever since a friend played him a tape of Triple Echo while careening his thoroughly chemicalised brain through the hills of South Somerset on the back of a Moto Guzzi 850 Le Mans. You don't ignore an education like that." |
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New wave. La scena post-punk inglese 1978-1982
by Pierfrancesco Pacoda - Nda Press (2010)
"La scena post-punk inglese 1978-1982. Concepito come un diario di viaggio nel cuore dell'Inghilterra del dopo punk, quando l'estate anarchica dei Sex Pistols aveva fatto esplodere le energie sotterranee di band che univano la volontà di rivolta al puro gusto per la sperimentazione. Sfilano, in New Wave, incontri con gruppi "seminali" come Throbbing Gristle, Pop Group, Essential Logic, Glaxo Babies, Passions, Killing Joke, Ruts, ed il "vecchio" Robert Wyatt che di questa generazione è stato il padre spirituale." |
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Canterbury
Collectif - Volume! La revue des musiques populaires - Éditions Mélanie Seteun (2022)
Compilation des interventions présentées à l'Université de Strasbourg lors du colloque en visio-conférence Zoom du 20 novembre 2020 sur "la scène de Canterbury".
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Plunderphonics, `Pataphysics Pop Mechanics: an introduction to musique actuelle
by Andrew Jones - SAF Publishing Ltd. (1999)
"Where new music collides with contemporary pop (as opposed to jazz or classical), Plunderphonics explains the implications of the new wave of sonic appropriation." |
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Gobbing Pogoing and Gratuitous Bad Language
by Ted Curtis - Spare Change Books (1996)
"A unique collection of short stories documenting the finest moments of twenty years of punk rock. The bands, the booze and the bad behaviour. The drugs, the shagging and brawling. Contributions from Mark Perry, Stewart Home, Nick Blinko, Robert Wyatt and many more." |
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AGI 2 / ENO
Collectif - Kyou records (2022)
Ce livre met en lumière l'évolution d'Eno et de la scène musicale à travers une sélection et des archives d'écrits d'Eno, de critiques de disques et de notes de pochette rédigées dans la revue japonaise Rock Magazine de l'époque. |
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Keep Yourself Alive
av Sören "Sulo" Karlsson & Petter Karlsson - Lind & Co (2012)
"Upphovsmännen bakom det fantastiska projektet Keep yourself alive gav sig ut på en unik resa till Storbritannien för att träffa sina gamla rockhjältar.
Förutom alla avslöjanden och otroliga historier som boken bjuder på medföljer även en cd, där Sulo tillsammans med de medverkande artisterna gjort nya versioner av deras mest kända låtar. Kultrockikonen Robert Wyatt har till och med bidragit med ett helt nyskrivet spår, exklusivt för Keep yourself alive."
"...The Robert Wyatt interview is quite nice, with Robert not wanting to make too much fuzz about his own person, modest as usual. Instead he honor other rock stars, jazz drummers and the ordinary workers who pay their taxes! [...]
With the book you get a CD where Sulo play old hits with several of the artists interviewed. Robert Wyatt instead asked Sulo to write som lyrics to the title "Enjoy the risk", and he plays piano to Sulo´s vocals and Magic Gunnarson´s saxophone.
A nice, little (less than 2 min.) tune."
Svenn in Robert Wyatt and Stuff blogspot |
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Brian Eno - Le magicien du son
de Olivier Bernard - Camion Blanc (2022)
"Près d’un bon kilo (915 g) pour une étude pointue, érudite, d’une grande acuité, emplie de révérence et de respect tout à fait hors du commun pour un artiste absolument hors des étiquettes, sauf celles qu’il s’est fabriquées, qu’il a inventées et/ou diagnostiquées depuis près de 40 ans (Here Come the Warm Jets premier album solo enregistré en septembre 1973 est sorti en janvier 1974 pour le début de la carrière véritable de l’artiste aujourd’hui âgé de… 74 ans). "
Xavier Béal
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A Beginner's Guide to Brian Eno
by Tsutomu Noda, Masato Matsumura, Takune Kobayashi,Mariko Sakamoto, Haru W. Mita,Tomoko Takahashi, James Hadfield, Ian F. Martin and Rie Eguchi - Ele-King Books (2022)
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All Things About Canterbury Rock
by Koji Wakui - Kawade Shuppan Shinsha - Japanese Edition (2022)
The world's first disc guide to the sixty years of unique rock that emerged in the ancient English city of Canterbury. It covers 500 discs, from jazz rock and progressive rock by Soft Machine, Caravan and Gong to avant-pop by Slap Happy and Henry Cow, as well as the solo work of each of the key figures. The ultimate history book and the one and only in-depth guide to the band's unique cultural background, musicality and worldwide network. |
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Musiques, traverses & horizons en 400 disques
de Philippe Robert - Le Mot Et Le Reste (2021)
"Philippe Robert propose une anthologie totale : 100 ans de musique en 400 albums, à la croisée des genres. Musiques, Traverses & Horizons donne à voir une construction de l'histoire musicale du XXe siècle où Moondog croise Oneothrix Point Never, Robert Wyatt, John Cale, Etta James et Colette Magny." |
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Caravan: Every Album, Every Song
by Andy Boot - Sonicbond Publishing (2021)
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Shakin' All Over - Popular Music and Disability
by George McKay - The University of Michigan Press (2013)
"...By looking closely into the work of artists such as Johnny Rotten, Neil Young, Johnnie Ray, Ian Dury, Teddy Pendergrass, Curtis Mayfield, and Joni Mitchell, McKay investigates such questions as how popular music works to obscure and accommodate the presence of people with disabilities in its cultural practice. He also examines how popular musicians have articulated the experiences of disability (or sought to pass), or have used their cultural arena for disability advocacy purposes." |
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La Musique Psychédélique Britannique
de Alain Pire - Université de Liège - Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres - Département de Arts et Sciences de la Communication (2009)
Thèse présentée par Alain Pire en vue de l'obtention du titre de Docteur en Information et Communication sous la direction de Christophe Pirenne. |
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The show that never ends - The rise and fall of Prog Rock
by David Weigel - W. W. Norton & Company (2017) |
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Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces - Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization
by Samantha Holland and Karl Spracken - Emerald Publishing (2018) |
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Music Scenes - Local, Translocal and Virtual
by Andy Bennett & Richard A. Peterson - Van erbilt Univresity Press (2004) |
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Pink Floyd - Behind the Wall - The complete psychedelic history from 1965 to today
by Hugh Fiedler - Race Point Publishing (2013) |
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Stone Free - Jimi Hendrix in London - September 1966-June 1967
by Jas Obrecht - University of North Carolina Press (2018) |
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Through Music to the Self
by Peter Michael Hamel - Shambhala Pubilcations Inc. (1976)
Nombreuses rééditions au fil des ans de cet ouvrage de référence du compositeur allemand qui a débuté sa carrière au côté de Morton Feldman, John Cage et Terry Riley...
Voir aussi... |
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Pete Frame's Complete Rock Family Trees
by Peter Frame - Omnibus Press (1983)
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L'underground musical en France
de Éric Deshayes et Dominique Grimaud - Le mot et le reste (2008)
Bible incontournable où se croisent tous les groupes et tous les musiciens qui peuplent nos discothèques depuis plus de 50 ans (j'écris ces lignes en 2021). Robert Wyatt, Hugh Hopper, Daevid Allen, Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, mais aussi Soft Machine, Gong et Matching Mole y sont fréquemment cités... Indispensable... |
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La Musica In Grigio e Rosa
di Lelio Camilleri - Arcana (2020)
"I Caravan sono, insieme ai Soft Machine, uno dei principali gruppi di quella che comunemente viene chiamata scena o scuola di Canterbury. Il libro contestualizza i Caravan all’interno della scena del rock progressivo e ripercorre la loro produzione discografica dall’inizio all’ultimo disco con la formazione originaria, nel 1982. " |
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Nosound
di Leonardo Vittorio Arena - Crac Edizioni (2020)
"Il libro si concentra su vari generi, il rock, il jazz, la musica classica ed etnica, nella visione del non suono. L'indagine è dominata dalla contaminazione: l'antico e il moderno, l'Oriente e l'Occidente, musica, letteratura e pittura, sonorità e silenzi si rincorrono, all’insegna del non suono. Nella prospettiva di una musica mondiale si esaminano
le opere di Terry Riley, Brian Eno, Richard Wagner, i Soft Machine, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian e altri." |
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Mike Oldfield
de José Cantos - Catedra Ediciones (2007)
"Mike Oldfield, músico singular, huidizo, camaleónico, tremendamente efectista, ha sido capaz de sorprender con sonidos de todo tipo desde que en 1968 se publicó su primer disco..." |
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Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells et au-delà
de Frédéric Delâge - Le Mot et le Reste (2021)
"Tubular Bells et au-delà revient sur le contexte de création et de diffusion de l’ensemble de l’œuvre musicale du génial compositeur britannique retiré aujourd’hui sur une île au sable fin.". |
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Cult Musicians : 50 Progressive Performers You Need to Know
by Robert Dimery & Kristelle Rodeia - Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd (2020)
"Cult Musicians introduces 50 musicians deserving of a cult status. The book charts a plethora of genres and boundary-breakers – from afrobeat and art pop to glam rock and proto punk; Bjork and PJ Harvey to Aphex Twin and Robert Wyatt.". |
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Jaaz Rock : A history
by Stuart Nicholson, Bill Laswell (Contributor), Jon Newey (Discographer) - Schirmer Trade Books (1998)
"The quintessential crossover form, jazz-rock encompasses the most popular hybrid styles, from 1970s fusion to the latest in acid jazz". |
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The Ambient Century - From Mahler to Moby --The Evolution of Sound in the Electronic Age
by Mark Prendergast, Karen Rinaldi, (Foreword by Brian Eno) - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2003)
Robert Wyatt is mentioned several times, mainly for his contribution to "Music for Airports". |
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Soft Machine - Rock Storia E Musica - #23
de Riccardo Bertoncelli - Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri (1983)
Livret de 28 pages en italien, accompagné d'une cassette (face A : Moon In June / face B : Teeth et Chloe And The Pirates). |
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British Rock - 1968-1972 : Pop, Rock, Glam
de Christophe Delbrouck - Le Castor Astral (2017) |
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All the Madmen
by Cliton Heylin - Constable & Robinson (2012)
...But the real return dated back to a night at the end of March, when he turned up at the f 00 Club to see his old pals Soft Machine play. And afterwards, he even said hi. As bassist Hugh Hopper recalls it: 'Syd was muttering away in his usual way and said, "Would you like to come along and do some recording?'" They assumed, not unreasonably, that he had some specific idea in mind.... |
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5th concise edition - The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
compiled and edited by Colin Larkin - Omnibus Press & Muze (2011)
3 659 pages for this "concise editon" (3 000 entries from the 27 000 of the multi-volume).
Kevin Ayers, Soft Machine and Robert wyatt are not forgotten... |
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A History of Rock Music- 1951-2000
by Piero Scaruffi (2003)
"Best read as an alternate history of rock music. Scaruffi has dedicated his platform to elevating underrated masterpieces and wholly unconventional music. ... "
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La Pop-Music
de Henry Skoff Torgue - Collection Que sais-je ? au Presse Universitaire de France (1975)
Beaucoup d'excellentes références (Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Gong, Matching Mole etc.) dans ce petit fascicule emblématique de la culture académique...
Réédition en 1997 avec un changement de titre : La Pop-Music et les musiques rock.
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Beyond and Before - Progressive Rock Since the 1960's
by Paul Hegarty & Martin Halliwell - The Continuum International Publishing Group (2011)
"... Hegarty and Halliwell assess the roots of progressive rock, arguing convincingly that a fusion of styles, approaches and genres defined the 1970s period, and the authors develop tools to assess other, later progressive musics..." |
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Experiencing Progressive Rock - A Listener's Companion
by Robert G.H. Burns - Rowman & Littlefield (2018)
"In Experiencing Progressive Rock: A Listener's Companion, Robert G. H. Burns brings together the many strands that define the "prog rock" movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s to chart the evolution of this remarkable rock tradition over the decades. " |
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Rocking the classics - English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture
by Edward Macan - Oxford University Press (1997)
"An impressive piece of work ... Macan knows this music backwards and forwards: he combines a fan's detached knowledge of minutiae with what if often a quite sophisticated agenda of cultural criticism." (Robert Walser)
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Encyclopedia of Classic Rock
by David Luhrssen with Michael Larson - Greenwood (2017)
"The book covers rock artists who emerged or came to prominence in the period ranging 1965–1975 and follows their careers through the present. It also specifically defines the term "classic rock" and identifies the criteria that a song must meet in order to be considered as within the genre."
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Ornette Coleman - The territory and the adventure
by Maria Golia - Reaktion Books Ltd (2020)
"As patron saint of all things dissonant and defiant, Ornette’s musical appeal extended through his own to subsequent generations. Epoch-shaping 1960s bands who acknowledged his transmissions include the Velvet Underground, Soft Machine, and Cream..."
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Pink Floyd - The Early Years
by Barry Miles - Omnibus Press (2006)
From Cambridge to Dark Side Of The Moon...
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The Strawberry Bricks Guide to Progressive Rock (Third Edition)
by Charles Snider - strawberrybricks.com (2020) - 572 pages
"Each of the over 500 entries is lovingly annotated with insightful breakdowns of each subject, which resulted in me reacquainting myself with many albums I hadn't thought about in years. Whether you are the novice getting your cape dirty for the first time, or a seasoned veteran who enjoys a fresh perspective, this is your mountain to climb."
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Carla Bley
by Amy C. Beal - University of Illinois Press (2011)
"Beal also points to Bley's professional and managerial work as a pioneer in the development of artist-owned record labels, the cofounder and manager of WATT Records, and the cofounder of New Music Distribution Service."
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Carla Bley - l'inattendu-e
par Ludivic Florin (avec Jean-Michel Court, Jean-François Mondot et Alex Dutilh) - Naïves Livres (2013)
"Le tour de force de nos quatre auteurs reste d’avoir su solliciter, auprès et au loin d’elle, les personnalités les plus insolites (John Cage, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, Robert Wyatt, Jack Bruce, etc.) sans jamais rompre l’unité de leur chronique artistique, nuancée de chaleur et d’enthousiasme."
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Generation ecstasy
by Simon Reynolds - Routledge (1999)
"In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave's quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music. " |
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Litpop - Writing and popular music
by Rachel Carroll and Adam Hansen - Ashgate (2014)
Part I - chapter 2 : "You can't just say 'words' : Literature and Nonsense in the Work of Robert Wyatt" (by Richard Elliott).
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Him Through Me - making love and music in the Sixties & Seventies
by Pamela Windo - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (2014)
“We lived on air and ideas, without cell phones and Facebook … we took quite a few drugs, and had quite a lot of sex…we were earnest and naïve… it was all so new, to be young and empowered…and it was music not money that played the major role…” |
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The Canterbury Sound In Popular Music: Scene, Identity and Myth
by Asya Draganova, Shane Blackman and Andy Bennett - Emerald Publishing Limited (2020)
"... The volume recounts the stories, and explores the significance, of the Canterbury Sound as heritage, ongoing legacy and scene. Originating from the experiences and ethnographic research of the three editors, all of whom have lived and worked in Canterbury, the book brings together reflections, stories, and critical insights from well-known musicians, researchers, DIY archivists and fans to explore the Canterbury Sound as an inter-generational phenomenon and a source of cultural identity. Associated with acts like Caravan, early Soft Machine, Robert Wyatt, and Kevin Ayers, this romanticised scene has a special place in popular music culture. ..." |
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Document And Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough Trade
by Neil Taylor - Orion (2012)
"Rough Trade is practically a byword for the history of independent music over the last thirty years. DOCUMENT AND EYEWITNESS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF ROUGH TRADE tells the story from the inside of a phenomenally influential record label, through the voices of Geoff Travis, Jarvis Cocker, Robert Wyatt, Green Gartside and many many more.
From the early records of Cabaret Voltaire, Kleenex and the Swell Maps, through to groundbreaking releases by The Fall, The Smiths and Scritti Pollitti, on through the collapse of the independent collective and the rebirth of Rough Trade at the turn of the century, this is the definitive, essential account for any serious music fan." |
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A New day Yesterday - UK Progressive Rock & the 1970s
by Mike Barnes - Omnibus Press (2020)
"This 600-page account of the birth and heyday of progressive rock is based on over 100 original interviews with musicians, journalists, record industry insiders and the testimonies of fans and is the product of five years' work."
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The Singer-Songwriter in Europe - Paradigms, Politics and Place
by Isabelle Marc and Stuart Green - Routledge (2019)
La contribution de Richard Elliott à cet ouvrage collectif est intitulée : ‘Words take the place of meaning’: sound, sense and politics in the music of Robert Wyatt.
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L'inconscience
de Thierry Hesse - Éditions de L'Olivier (2012)
Apparition inattendue de Robert Wyatt dans ce roman qui met longuement en scène la tragique soirée au cours de laquelle il chûtera du 4ème étage d'un immeuble londonien.
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Auge & Ohr - Ear & Eye (Encounters with World Music)
by Christoph Wagner - Edition Neue Zeitschriftfür Music (2004)
Mit ein Text von Robert Wyatt.
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Le bleu Le bleu
de Dashiel Hedayat - Christian Bourgois (1971)
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Curious Camden Town
by Martin Plaut & Andrew Whitehead - Five Leaves Publications
(2015)
Une évocation du quartier de Camden à Londres comprenant un saisissant reportage sur la soirée inaugurale de la Roundhouse le 15 octobre 1966 en soutien à la revue International Times. Au programme: Pink Floyd et Soft Machine...
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The renaissance of the Roundhouse started in 1964 when the playwright Arnold Wesker launched Centre 42 there, winning trade union support for the creation of an arts and cultural centre. But the moment that Camden became hip was two years later, on 15th October 1966 – when Pink Floyd and Soft Machine, neither then signed up to a record label, played at the all-night launch party of International Times (IT), one of the more cerebral of the ventures of the sixties alternative press.
It was the first big gig ever held at the Roundhouse. The building wasn’t remotely fit for purpose, as Barry Miles, a founder of IT, recalled in his history of the city’s counter-culture, London Calling:
there was no proper floor, and great jagged pieces of metal stuck up through a layer of grime. There were only two toilets, and the electricity supply was about the same as that of a small house, powerful enough only to light the building. There were several large doors opening out on to the railway freight yards, but the entrance staircase from Chalk Farm Road was so narrow that only one person at a time could enter or leave.
On that night, 2,000 youngsters made their way up and down that far-from-adequate stairwell.
But the venue delivered. "It was great," recalls top record producer Joe Boyd. "Very raw, dirt on the floor, unheated - but strangely spectacular."... |
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New Sounds : The Virgin guide to new music
by John Schaefer - Virgin Books (1990)
Robert Wyatt est évoqué à plusieurs reprises au sujet de l'album Music for airports de Brian Eno.
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Henry Cow - The World is a problem
by Benjamin Piekut - Duke University Press (2019)
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Epiphanies - Life changing encounters with music
Edition Tony Herrington - Wire (2015)
Recueil de 52 Epiphanies publiées par la revue Wire et signées par des personnalités aussi célèbres qu'inattendus : de Genesis Breyer P-orridge "on the psychedelic designs of Hapshash And The Coloured Coat" à Jerry Dammers "on his appreciation of Sun Ra and his cosmic music", en passant par Philip Brophy "on the problem with John Cage", chaque auteur s'attache à décrire cette prise de conscience soudaine et lumineuse qui constitue le coeur de l'épiphanie littéraire.
Robert Wyatt se livre à une épiphanie enthousiaste de l'album "The Genius Of Ray Charles" paru en 1959 chez Atlantic, non sans s'interroger lorsqu'il découvrit le titre du disque sur le sens des mots :" I tought : Genius? How could he be a genius if he's only a popular singer? Clearly a misuse of the word. I was like that."
Nul doute, vous l'avez deviné, qu'il allait très vite changer d'avis... |
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Kevin Ayers: ¿Por qué estamos durmiendo?
de Alberto Manzano Lizandra - Editions Milenio (2015)
Une biographie détaillée de Kevin Ayers avec de nombreux interviews, des dessins, des textes inédits ainsi que des chapitres consacrés à ses principaux compagnons musicaux : Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Ollie Halsall et Nico.
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Keihard & Swingend - De jongrensjaren van Muziekkrent Oor
de Barend Toet - Ed. Boekeru (2011)
(en néerlandais)
Barend Toe, fondateur en 1971 de la revue musicale hollandaise Oor (dont plusieurs articles sont référencés sur ce site), raconte son aventure éditoriale en évoquant plusieurs artistes dont Robert Wyatt qui ont marqué l'histoire du magazine,.
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Days in the life - Voices from the English Underground 1961-1971
By Jonathon Green - Heinemann - Minerva (1988)
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I 101 racconti di Canterbury. Viaggio nella storia di una (non) scena
de Valerio D'Onofrio, Valeria Ferro - CRAC Edizioni (2017)
(en italien)
L'école de Canterbury en 302 pages: "Le son de Canterbury est basé sur une combinaison singulière de psychédélisme, de jazz et de progressif, soutenu par des textes souvent empreints d'ironie et de mondes surréalistes.".
Et aussi sur L'école de Canterbury : une compilation qui rassemble de très nombreux textes publiés sur ce sujet dans Wikipédia :
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Prog Rock History:
The Canterbury Scene
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Canterbury Scene. Jazzrock in England
de Bernward Halbscheffel - Halbscheffel Verlag (2014)
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Re-Make/Re-Model: Art, Pop, Fashion and the Making of Roxy Music - 1953-1972
by Michael Bracewell - Faber & Faber (2007)
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Le rock progressif anglais (1967-1977)
de Christophe Pirenne - Editions Champion - Collection Musique-Musicologie (2005)
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Amougies
by Jean-Noël Coghe - Les Presses du Midi (2019)
Inclus 2 CD avec un court extrait de Soft Machine.
L'organisation du festival d'Amougies du 24 au 28 octobre 1969, racontée par un très proche collaborateur de Jean Karakos pour cet évènement qui a failli ne jamais avoir lieu.
D'une écriture encore passionnée, J.N. Coghe fait preuve d'un goût musical très affirmé :
" Soft Machine trois + quatre pour la circonstance. Le Soft s'est adjoint quatre cuivres. L'expérience musicale la plus avancée. Ils nous servent, entre autres, vingt-neuf minutes d'une réelle intensité émotionnelle. Peut-être les plus grands."
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Soft Machine - De (Kevin) Ayers à (Robert) Wyatt
de Jérôme Pintoux - Camion Blanc (2020) |
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Robert Wyatt
Betascript Publishing (2010)
Compilation d'articles parus sur Robert Wyatt dans Wikipédia. |
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Soft Machine
Betascript Publishing (2010)
Compilation d'articles parus sur Soft Machine dans Wikipédia. |
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Volume Two (Soft Machine album)
Betascript Publishing (2010)
Compilation d'articles parus sur le volume Two de Soft Machine dans Wikipédia. |
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Mike Ratledge
Cell Publishing (2011)
Compilation d'articles parus sur Mike Ratledge dans Wikipédia. |
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Elastic Dream - The Music of Ian Carr - A Critical Discography
By Roger Farbey - Roger Farbey Edition (2010)
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Eric Clapton - la vie en blues
David Perrault - Le Castor Astral (2003)
David Perrault évoque Soft Machine à deux reprises dans cet ouvrage consacré à Eric Clapton. |
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I Racconti di Canterbury - Gnomi e banane musicali tra '60 e '70
di Luigi Bontempi - Nautilus (1990)
Livret de 50 pages édité par Nautilus Autoproduzioni, collectif lié au mouvement des occupations à Turin.
Gnomes et bananes musicales entre '60 et '70 de Luigi Bontempi est "une véritable plongée dans cet esprit irrationnel, dada, romantique et courageux qui au moins au début unissait Soft Machine, Gong, Kevin Ayers et Caravan" (Donato Zoppo). |
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Pink Floyd e la scena di Canterbury
Clarence Saluzzi - Gli e-books della Saluzzi's Home Record Collection (2012)
Questo ebook raccoglie una serie di post pubblicati sul site saluzzishrc.com durante l'anno 2012. |
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Brian Eno - Zaobilazne Strategije - razgovori 1973-1984
Beograd -: Radionica SIC (1986)
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Fix It, Leroy! Adventures in Misfit Music
de David Shirley - Create Space Independent Publishing Platform (2017)
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In the Sixities - Aventures dans la contre-culture
de Barry Miles - Le castor astral (2016)
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Gong Dreaming 1: From Soft Machine to the Birth of Gong
de Daevid Allen - SAF Publishing (2006)
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Gong Dreaming 2: The Histories & Mysteries of Gong from 1969-1975
de Daevid Allen - SAF Publishing (2009)
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One Train Later: A memoir
de Andy Summers - Piatkus Books (2007)
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Syd Barrett - The Making Of Madcap Laughs
de Malcom Jones - PDF sur internet (1982 et 2003)
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Syd Barrett - Crazy Diamond: The Dawn Of Pink Floyd
de Mike Watkinson et? Pete Anderson - Omnibus Press (1991)
Une traduction française est parue en 2005 aux Editions Camion Blanc. |
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Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd - Dark Globe
de Julian Palacios - Editions Plexus (2010)
Une traduction française est parue en 2012 aux Editions Camion Blanc. |
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Syd Barrett - Le Premier Pink Floyd
de Emmanuel Le Bret - Editions du moment (2008)
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Before and After Eno - Una biografia di Brian Eno
de Marco Calloni - Meridiano Zero (2016)
Avec de rès nombreux commentaires et iconographie sur Robert Wyatt + un interview exclusif. |
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On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno
de David Sheppard - Orion Books (2008)
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The Encyclopedia of Rock vol. 2: From Liverpool to San Francisco
de Phil Hardy & David Laing - Panther Books (1976)
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The Encyclopedia of Rock vol. 3: The Sounds of the Seventies
de Phil Hardy & David Laing - Panther Books (1976)
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Le rock
de Thierry Frébourg - Le Monde de... Editions (1987)
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Kevin Ayers
de Frederic P. Miller , Agnes F. Vandome et John McBrewster - Alphascript Publishing (2010)
Compilation d'articles de Wikipédia dont certains sur Soft Machine et Robert Wyatt.
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Hendrix - A Biography
de Chris Welch - Flash Books (1973)
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Jimi Hendrix: The Man, the Magic, the Truth
de Sharon Lawrence - Pan Books (2006)
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Bill Bruford - The Autobiography
de Bill Bruford - Jawbone Press (2009)
Une traduction française d'Aymeric Leroy est parue en 2012 aux Editions Le Mot & Le Reste.
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Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield
de Mike Oldfield - Virgin Books (2007)
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Musique Electroniques, des avant-gardes aux dance floors
de Guillaume Kosmicki - Editions Le Mot et le Reste (2009) |
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Through Music to The Self
de Peter Michael Hamel - Elemet Books (Compton Press) - (1978)
Traduction du livre allemand publié à l'origine chez Scherz Verlag en 1976.
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Crosstown Traffic, Jimi Hendrix and Post-War PoP
de Charles Shaar Murray, Editions Faber & Faber (1989)
Ttraduction en 1993 sous le titre "Jimi Hendrix, Vie et Légende" (Seuil).
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Mike Oldfield - A Man and His Music
de Sean Moraghan - Britannia Press Publishing (1993) |
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Le Livre du Pink Floyd
de Alain Dister, Jaques Leblanc & Udo Woehrle - Editions Albin Michel / Rock&Folk (1978) |
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Robert Wyatt Unauthorized & Uncensored
de R.B. Grimm - Kindle Edition - (2015)
Compilation d'articles au format ebook. 27 pages. |
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Pink Floyd - A Visual Documentary
by Miles Mabbett and Andy Mabbett - Omnibus Press (1980) |
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Inside Out : A Personal History of Pink Floyd
by Nick Mason - Weidenfeld & Nicolson (2004) |
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Pink Floyd - L'Histoire selon Nick Mason
de Nick Mason - Editions E.P.A (2005)
Traduction du livre "Inside Out". |
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Swingin’ Canterbury: viaggio nella provincia del rock progressivo britannico: 1967-1981
de Michele Coralli - Editions Tuttle (2007)
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Still with the Music
de Karl Jenkins with Sam Jackson - Editions Elliott & Thompson (2015)
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