Personnel Robert Wyatt - Percussion, Piano, Trumpet, Cornet, Cymbals, Drums, Keyboards, Vocals Karen Mantler - Harmonica, Piano, Keyboards, Vocals Phil Manzanera - Vocals Alfreda Benge - Vocals Brian Eno - Vocals David Gilmour - Guitar on "Forest" Paul Weller - Guitar Annie Whitehead - Trombone
Cuckooland representó un nuevo coqueteo con el jazz más escurridizo y sensual y con la particular visión que del rock ha tenido Wyatt desde sus lejanos días con The Soft Machine, la mítica banda surgida del corazón de Canterbury, al sureste de Inglaterra, pionera de la fusión entre la psicodelia, el rock progresivo y el jazz.
Brian Eno, David Gilmour and Phil Manzanera are the most prominant guests on the album but when you listen to this album there is no doubt that it´s Robert Wyatt that is the star. He is just incredibly talented and approach writing and playing music in a very unique fashion.
He records with an impressive A-list of musicians — Brian Eno, David Gilmour, Phil Manzanera, Paul Weller — that he can beckon simply by asking. The music answers to its own rhythms, its own sense of irony and its own belief in melody.
En la década de los 90 llegaron Dondestan (1991), el recopilatorio Flotsam Jetsam (1994) y Shleep (1997), y en el Siglo XXI Cuckooland (2003) y Comicopera (2007). Sus colaboraciones más destacadas de estos años fueron con David Gilmour y Bjork .
20 de ene. de 2004 · Robert Wyatt releases his first CD in six years, Cuckooland. Wyatt is joined on the new CD by Brian Eno, David Gilmour and Wyatt's wife, Alfreda Benge, who co-wrote many of the songs.
26 de sept. de 2003 · Cuckooland is typical: gloopy keyboards and flabby beats sit happily alongside superb musicianship and spine-tingling moments of charm and calm, while Wyatt's frail voice and tiny trumpet float...