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Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger than Richard

Stuart's featured album is Robert Wyatt's 1975 solo album Ruth is Stranger than Richard. Plus Jethro Tull, Sun Ra and Motorpyscho.

The train now leaving platform 13 is the Freak Zone Express to the weird and wonderful.

All aboard for avant-pop from Bergen, Leodensian sound art, Brazillian ballads about Emily Dickinson, Nordic jazz classical crossover, English acid folk rock, Terry Riley played on signal generators, Terry Riley played by Terry Riley, and tunes by Jethro Tull, Motorpsycho, Sun Ra, and Colin Stetson.

Plus friendly engine driver Stuart's featured album is Robert Wyatt's 1975 solo album Ruth is Stranger than Richard.

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Sun 22 Feb 2026 20:00
麻豆社 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Blue Phantom

    Didio

    • Spider Records.

  • Major Parkinson

    Viva the Apocalypse!

    • Apollon Records.

  • Craig Fortnam & Laurent Valero

    Inky

    • Dark Companion Records.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Muddy Mouse (c) Which In Turn Leads To Muddy Mouth

    • Hannibal.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Song For Che

    • Hannibal.

  • Finding Ways & Sebastian Rochford

    Til The Day I'm Gone (feat. Patrick Walden)

    • Finding Ways Records.

  • Bex Burch & Dan Bitney

    Don't Go Back to Sleep

    • International Anthem.

  • Motorpsycho

    The Gaia II Space Corps

    • Det Nordenfjeldske Grammofonselskab.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Team Spirit

    • Hannibal.

  • Jethro Tull

    Locomotive Breath

    • Parlophone UK.

  • Mr. Fox

    Mr. Fox

    • Transatlantic.

  • Hannah Frances & Daniel Rossen

    The Space Between

    • Fire Talk.

  • Colin Stetson, Trevor Dunn & Greg Fox

    Nethering

    • Invada Records.

  • Luciana Souza

    I Asked No Other Thing

    • Sunnyside Records.

  • Sonny & Linda Sharrock

    End of the Rainbow

    • Rhino Atlantic.

  • Tuva Halse

    Contemplation

    • Jazzland Recordings.

  • Lightning Bolt

    CLOUD CORE

    • Thrill Jockey.

  • Tinned Meats

    Mir

    • Self release.

  • Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy

    Theme

    • Listening Position.

  • Sun Ra & The Sun Ra Arkestra

    The All of Everything

    • Strut.

  • Normal Service

    Raljex

    • Self release.

  • Bloody Men

    Bells

    • self release.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Muddy Mouse (A)

    • Hannibal.

  • Robert Wyatt

    Solar Flares

    • Hannibal.

  • Simple Carpenter

    In C

    • self release.

  • Terry Riley

    In C

    • Sony.

Broadcast

  • Sun 22 Feb 2026 20:00
    麻豆社 Radio 6 Music