Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
by Robert Wyatt
- Type: Album
- Released: 30 May 1975
- Label: Virgin
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 39:38
- Community rating: 4.01/5 from 7 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Following the profoundly emotional 'Rock Bottom', Robert Wyatt embraced a significantly more abstract, jazz-oriented direction for this delightfully eccentric follow-up. 'Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard' is a wonderfully playful, remarkably quirky Canterbury Scene record, exploring highly surreal, intensely repetitive avant-prog arrangements loaded with cryptic, distinctively British humor.
Genres
Descriptors: avant-garde, repetitive, experimental, literary, elegant, vocal, progressive, melodic
Tracklist
- Soup Song (5:00)
- Sonia (4:12)
- Team Spirit (8:26)
- Song For Che (3:36)
- Muddy Mouse (A) (0:50)
- Solar Flares (5:35)
- Muddy Mouse (B) (0:50)
- 5 Black Notes And 1 White Note (4:58)
- Muddy Mouse (C) / Muddy Mouth (6:11)
Credits
- Robert Wyatt - primary artist, producer, vocals [mouth], piano, written-by, drums, piano, vocals [mouth], drums, keyboards, electric piano [imitation electric piano]
- Alfreda Benge - cover
- Richard Palmer - engineer
- Steve Cox - engineer
- Malcolm Heeley - engineer [practical assistance]
- Nick Mason - producer
- Nisar Ahmad Khan - baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
- Bill MacCormick - bass guitar, written-by
- Laurie Allan - drums
- Gary Windo - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone
- Brian Hopper - written-by
- John Greaves - bass guitar
- Mongezi Feza - trumpet, written-by
- Brian Eno - performer [direct inject anti-jazz ray gun], guitar, synthesizer
- Phil Manzanera - written-by
- Charlie Haden - written-by
- Fred Frith - piano, written-by
- Jacques Offenbach - written-by