Author: King Crimson

Format: Box set

PartNumber: DGM9913

Release Date: 26-10-1999

Details: Amazon.ca When is a band not a band? When it's a ProjecKt! This is the redoubtable King Crimson, dividing into "fractals" of their full "double trio" and gigging over two years, in an ongoing research and development for the next album and tour; edited into a listening experience as varied as it is satisfying. P1, recorded at London's Jazz Cafe in late 1997, recalls the improvisations that graced Crimson gigs on the Thrak tour: intricate playing from Robert Fripp and Trey Gunn, underpinned by Bill Bruford's fluid drumming. P2 was gigged extensively in Europe and the US in the first half of 1998; the music alternates between tight ensemble playing in the "ConstrucKtion" numbers, and rugged riffing in "Sus-tayn-Z" and the title track, where Adrian Belew's V-drumming comes into its own. P3 was the last and possibly most intriguing: five nights at Austin, Texas last March--rock as chamber music (almost). Pat Mastelotto's drumming really lets rip in P4. Listening to such tracks as "Deception Of The Thrush" or "ProjecKtion" brings an astonishment similar to Discipline-era Crimson. It's about taking a current "big thing"--electronica in this instance--and pushing it to logical extremes by dint of sheer musicianship. If you want to know why Fripp turned down a Court Of The Crimson King 30th anniversary tour, here's your answer: 4CDs of innovation and consolidation for the next phase of King Crimson. Hard, abstract and happening, this is music to savour. --Richard Whitehouse

UPC: 633367991324

EAN: 0633367991324

Model: DGM9913

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood