ROBERT WYATT Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard 2U/2U Virgin UK 1975 Prog/Psych NM LP

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ROBERT WYATT
Ruth is Stranger Than Richard .
VIRGIN Records V 2034
Original 1975 UK issue LP .
VINYL is NM
Full gloss vinyl has faintest sleeve wisps only, viewed under hard bright light. LP plays Like New throughout. Labels are pristine both sides.
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COVER is EX+
Super clean and snapping bright, extremely close to new with a small, light spot at bottom right corner tip and a couple of short, very mild edge creases. Seams and spine are 100% intact with no wear or splits. All edges straight, all corners sharp.
STRICT CONSERVATIVE GOLDMINE VISUAL GRADING
NM / EX(VG++) / VG+ / VG

TOP Archival Condition

1st UK VIRGIN Original 1975 issue

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First label with full color Virgin "twins" logo over a red dragon.

MATRIX NUMBERS
?Side One: V 2034  A - 2U
?Side Two: V 2034  B - 2U *these are the earliest Matrix #s found on this original issue. No "1U" matrix #s appear to have ever been actually released This LP is a true FIRST PRESSING.
NOT a recent reissue; this is the Original UK press of the third solo album by the ex-Soft Machine and Matching Mole drummer/vocalist
Produced by Robert Wyatt and Nick Mason Recorded and mixed at the Manor, except A2, recorded at CBS London. 
Made in Great Britain
Apart from "Sonia", recorded for the shelved "Yesterday Man" single in October 1974 (again with Nick Mason as producer), the entire album was recorded and mixed at Virgin's Manor Studio with Wyatt himself handling production duties. Much of the album features Robert Wyatt (on vocals and keyboards) backed by a band consisting of bassist Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole, Quiet Sun), drummer Laurie Allen (Delivery, Gong) and saxophonists George "Nisar Ahmad" Khan (Battered Ornaments) and Gary Windo (Brotherhood Of Breath), with Brian Eno adding his own idiosyncratic "anti-jazz" touch along with guest spots by Fred Frith (Henry Cow) and John Greaves (National Health).

The album contains several pieces which recall the complexity and despair of Rock Bottom, but much of the record echoes the relaxed, almost silly feel of earlier Wyatt efforts such as The End Of An Ear or his work with Matching Mole. The songs on Side Ruth all have more traditional structures; the rollicking "Soup Song" (derived from the Wilde Flowers song "Slow Walking Talk", of which Wyatt had recorded a version with Jimi Hendrix) has the air of a pub singalong. The remaining songs are all written by various of the contributers or in collaboration with Wyatt: the Mongezi Feza trumpet piece "Sonia" (featuring a guest appearance by Feza himself in the last year of his life), "Team Spirit" (written with Phil Manzanera, who would record it as "Frontera" on his Diamond Head album) and a cover of "Song for Che" (written by Charlie Haden) round off the side.

The three "serious" pieces on Side Richard - the beautiful ballad "Solar Flares", "5 Black Notes And 1 White Note" (a funeral instrumental cover of Offenbach's Barcarolle which degenerates into a series of noises somewhere between free jazz and electronic noise) and the Fred Frith piano-led collaboration "Muddy Mouth" - are framed by a series of brief, nonsensical interludes featuring only sparse piano accompaniment and some very strange high-pitched yelping vocals under the collective title "Muddy Mouse". It would be Wyatt's last studio album until 1985's Old Rottenhat, and he has never sounded better than he does here.

Scarce 1st UK PRESS! . Vinyl inside Black, anti-static lined inner sleeve

LP kept in a protective, clear poly outer-sleeve

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