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#HF11 Messy set-up of Around Robert Wyatt gets in the way of magical moments

Scene from ''Around Robert Wyatt''. Photo Annabelle Tiaffay.

''Alifib'' by British progrocker Robert Wyatt (1945) is a song that gets under the skin. Wyatt's near-breaking voice sounds so genuinely sad that it takes your breath away. It seems an impossible task to perform ''Alifib'' convincingly without the master himself. Yet the French Orchestre National de Jazz gets it right. W...

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Scene from ''Around Robert Wyatt''. Photo Annabelle Tiaffay.

''Alifib'' by British progrocker Robert Wyatt (1945) is a song that gets under the skin. Wyatt's near-breaking voice sounds so genuinely sad that it takes your breath away. It seems an impossible task to perform ''Alifib'' convincingly without the master himself. Yet the French Orchestre National de Jazz gets it right. W...

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