Domino
Comicopera is like meeting an oid friend. Conversation begins immediately where it last left off. What's new? How you been? Has it really been that long? No, really? Shame about so and so. It's not that nothing has changed. Static friendships die. The capacity to accommodate difference and change that revitalises the friendship. There are new influences and new songs. There are life-changing events. New loves and old ones rekindled. Life happens somewhere between comedy and tragedy - Comicopera. Robert Wyatt, his partner Alfie Benge and their comrades understand this well. There's observational comedy in 'А Beautiful Peace' and ‘А Beautiful War', romantic comedy in ‘Just As You Are' and slapstick in Orphy Robinson's ‘Pastafari'. We feel pity and loss for Hattie in ‘A.W.O.L.', while Richard Dawkins pops up cartoon-like on 'Be Serious' There's solidarity with the oppressed in `Haste Siempre Comandante' and in Robert's setting of Lorca's ‘Cancion dе Julieta' and righteous anger in Out Of The Blue'. We shared those thoughts and those emotions and then we danced together. Oh, how we danced to On The Town Square'. And then we laughed and laughed again, as if we were the very last ones to get the joke of ‘Anachronis’.
Duncan Heining
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