Guitarist Mary Halvorson has been a long time admirer of Robert Wyatt’s music. She opened her 2018 Wire playlist with his “Sea Song”, saying: “I’m starting with Robert Wyatt because his influence probably runs deepest. “Robert is one of my heroes,” says Halvorson. I wrote the three tracks he sings on specifically for him, and I was floored by the grace and brilliance with which he approached this music. It was a dream come true.”Since announcing his retirement, Wyatt has reappeared intermittently, playing cornet or trumpet on albums by David Gilmour and Paul Weller, while in 2018 he contributed vocals to Janek Schaefer’s Wyatt-inspired album What Light There Is Tells Us Nothing.