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MICHAEL MANTLER Silence LP UK Virgin press robert wyatt

Michael Mantler - Silence
Watt/Virgin Records WATT/5
1976 UK Issue

Condtion - Cover: EX+. Vinyl: Like New

Very scarce UK press from a short lived deal that WATT had with Virgin Records.


    words by Harold Pinter
     (an adaptation of the play 'Silence')

     Robert Wyatt  (voice, percussion)
     Kevin Coyne  (voice )
     Carla Bley  (voice, piano, organ)
     Chris Spedding  (guitar)
     Ron McClure  (bass)

     recorded January through June 1976
     Willow, NY, and Wiltshire, England

Michael Mantler partial bio:
In 1973 he started WATT WORKS, a new record label devoted to the presentation of his and Carla Bley's music exclusively. He recorded No Answer, featuring Jack Bruce, for which he wrote music to the words of Samuel Beckett.

The following year he built a recording studio near Woodstock, N.Y. to escape the pressures of commercial recording studios. Almost all future WATT recordings were eventually done at Grog Kill Studio (many with Tom Mark as the studio's "house engineer"). He received composition grants from the Creative Artists Program Service and the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the aid of a Ford Foundation grant he was able to undertake the recording of his 13 for two orchestras and piano (1975).

He wrote and recorded several more albums for WATT: The Hapless Child, with words by Edward Gorey, featuring Robert Wyatt (1976), Silence, based on the Harold Pinter play, again with Robert Wyatt (1976), Movies, with Larry Coryell and Tony Williams (1977), and More Movies, with Philippe Catherine (1980). During that period he also appeared on albums by John Greaves (Kew Rhone) and Nick Mason (Fictitious Sports), and then toured briefly with his own small group.

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