Shleep

by Robert Wyatt

Type: Album
Released: 29 September 1997
Label: Hannibal
Country: United Kingdom
Length: 53:43
Community rating: 3.93/5 from 9 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Reemerging after a long hiatus, Robert Wyatt delivers an incredibly warm, deeply poetic masterpiece with 'Shleep'. Supported by collaborators like Brian Eno and Paul Weller, the album navigates quirky Canterbury scene jazz-rock and progressive art rock with his signature humorous, melancholic grace.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, progressive, rhythmic, complex, idiosyncratic, male-vocals, melodic, intricate, atmospheric

Tracklist

Credits

Robert Wyatt - primary artist, illustration [drawings on pages 6 & 14], liner notes, mixed by, producer, voice, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion, written-by, voice, fiddle [polish fiddle], keyboards, percussion, voice, trumpet, keyboards [keyboard], voice, trumpet, keyboards, bass guitar, percussion, voice, keyboards, percussion, chorus
Alfreda Benge - illustration [except drawings on pages 6 & 14], written-by, voice [voice of the apparition], producer [voice production], chorus
Paul Weller - mixed by, guitar [all guitars], harmony vocals, guitar [guitars], written-by
Charles Rees - mixed by [mixed with], chorus
Jamie Johnson - mixed by [mixed with], recorded by, guitar, chorus
Phil Smee - typography, layout
Brian Eno - arranged by, chorus [vocal chorus], synthesizer, producer, synthesizer, synth [synth bass]
Evan Parker - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
Chucho Merchan - double bass, percussion, bass guitar, bass drum
Philip Catherine - guitar, written-by
Chikako Sato - violin
Hugh Hopper - written-by
Kramer - written-by
Annie Whitehead - trombone
Gary Azukx - djembe
Phil Manzanera - guitar