01 luglio 2024

 

Richard Williams racconta da par suo - ma in tono ancor più amorevole del consueto, e rincuorante - del suo incontro con Robert Wyatt a Louth pochi giorni fa: On visiting a friend.

"It has been a joy to find that Robert is still entirely himself, one of the most original and loved figures of his generation, still living his “improvised life”, not making music any more but continuing to incarnate his socialist principles and thereby justifying his friend Brian Eno’s description of him (in Marcus O’Dair’s excellent authorised biography) as living without 'any glaring inconsistencies between what he claims to believe in and what he does as a person and as an artist.'"