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    King Crimson — Audio Diary 2014~2018 (Sept. 20, 2019) Pamela MÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃéndez ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃâ Time (22 Feb 2019)⊂★⊃    Spurred on by Robert Fripp’s innovative guitar work, arguably the definitive exponents of British progressive rock.  ⊂★⊃    King Crimson in its best environment — recorded live. Described as an audio diary, this 5 CD set includes one set per year of live material recorded from 2014 through 2018. The 2014 material is fully mixed from multi~track tapes by Robert Fripp and Jakko Jakszyk. The 2015~2018 performances were taken directly from the band’s stereo board mixes. Drawn from concerts worldwide in the five years period represented, from the first public concert in Albany, NY in 2014, to one of the final concerts in Japan in December, 2018. Packaged in a rigid slipcase featuring artwork from the beloved and dearly missed Francesca Sundsten, containing 3 gatefold sleeves containing the 5 individual CDs, plus a 24~page full color booklet with previously unseen photographs. ⊂★⊃    Packaged in a rigid slipcase featuring artwork from the beloved and dearly missed Francesca Sundsten, containing 3 gatefold sleeves containing the 5 individual CDs, plus a 24~page full color booklet with previously unseen photographs. ⊂★⊃    Back in 1969, King Crimson made its reputation as a live band — initially with the hipsters, scene setters & other musicians who frequented the likes of the Speakeasy & The Marquee in London, then, more broadly, with a breakthrough gig to a vast mainstream audience as guests on the bill with The Rolling Stones in Hyde Park in July of that year. So it’s appropriate that the current incarnation of King Crimson was to be found just opposite the entrance to Hyde Park at the end of June 2019 almost 50 years on from that concert, playing a trio of packed gigs at the Royal Albert Hall. ⊂★⊃    CD1 is fully mixed from multi~track tapes by Robert Fripp & Jakko Jakszyk, while the other 4 CDs are taken from the band’s stereo soundboard recordings, the most accurate recorded representation of the live band in the opinion/ears of many of the band’s hardcore fans. — gratefulweb.com / ⊂★⊃    https://www.gratefulweb.com/  Shop: https://shop.schizoidshop.com/                                                 Location: London, UK
Genres: Avant~Prog, Progressive Rock, Progressive Metal, Math Rock
Album released: Sept. 20, 2019
Record Label: DGM
Duration:     xxxx
Tracks:
CD ONE (2014)
01. HOODOO
02. LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC, PART ONE
03. A SCARCITY OF MIRACLES
04. LEVEL FIVE
05. ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE
06. INTERLUDE
07. BANSHEE LEGS BELL HASSLE
08. THE TALKING DRUM
09. 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
10. THE LIGHT OF DAY
CD TWO (2015)
01. RADICAL ACTION I/MELTDOWN
02. INTERLUDE
03. SAILOR’S TALE
04. THE LETTERS
05. THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
06. STARLESS
07. EASY MONEY
08. PICTURES OF A CITY
09. SUITABLE GROUNDS FOR THE BLUES
10. THE CONSTRUKCTION OF LIGHT
11. LEVEL FIVE
CD THREE (2016)
01. LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC, PART TWO
02. EPITAPH
03. DEVIL DOGS OF TESSELLATION ROW
04. RED
05. BANSHEE LEGS BELL HASSLE
06. CIRKUS
07. RADICAL ACTION II
08. PICTURES OF A CITY
09. PEACE
10. LARKS’ TONGUES IN ASPIC, PART ONE
11. EASY MONEY
12. 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MAN
CD FOUR (2017)
01. CIRKUS
02. STARLESS
03. THE LETTERS
04. HEROES
05. INTERLUDE
06. LAST SKIRMISH
07. INDISCIPLINE
08. DAWN SONG
09. PRINCE RUPERT’S LAMENT
10. THE ERRORS
11. FALLEN ANGEL
12. NEUROTICA
13. ISLANDS
CD FIVE (2018)
01. THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
02. SUITABLE GROUNDS FOR THE BLUES
03. PICTURES OF A CITY
04. MELTDOWN
05. BOLERO
06. RADICAL ACTION
07. ONE MORE RED NIGHTMARE
08. MOONCHILD
09. EASY MONEY
10. LEVEL FIVE
11. PEACE
12. CADENCE AND CASCADE
•⊆⊇•     Containing 1CD per year of live material taken from 2014~2018, Audio Diary features King Crimson in its ideal environment — recorded live.
•⊆⊇•     5 CDs and a 24 page booklet — including previously unseen photographs — housed in 3 x gatefold sleeves packed in a rigid slipcase.
•⊆⊇•     The 2014 material has been fully mixed from multi~track tapes by Robert Fripp and Jakko Jakszyk. 2015~2018 performances have been taken directly from the band’s stereo board mixes.
•⊆⊇•     “…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. — in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) — as the best new rock band in the world.” — Ben Thompson, Mojo
•⊆⊇•     The current line~up of King Crimson — the longest surviving in the band’s half century of existence — started touring in September 2014 and hasn’t stopped since. Now routinely spoken of in terms of ‘best live band in the world’, the band’s reputation has been further enhanced via a series of live releases beginning with the Live at the Orpheum mini~album (2015) and running to last year’s 3CD/Blu~Ray Meltdown set, drawn from a series of concerts in Mexico in 2017.
•⊆⊇•     With a vast repertoire covering everything from material from debut album In the Court of the Crimson King (including Moonchild which was never performed in 1969) through to material from Lizard which, likewise, was never performed at the time, Crim classics from Islands, Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Red & other studio albums, through to material from Fripp’s solo album Exposure (Breathless), radical reinterpretations of 1980s material (Neurotica, Indiscipline), to songs from the current KC band precursor album by Jakszyk, Fripp Collins (A Scarcity of Miracles. The Light of Day) & material newly written for this line~up, (Meltdown, Radical Action), this 5CD set provides a comprehensive overview of 5 years’ worth of concerts — one year per cd — with performances selected from that first concert in Albany New York in 2014, to the band’s penultimate 2018 concert in Tokyo.
•⊆⊇•     This set has previously been available in a very limited manner at the band’s recent 2019 live concerts & is already much in demand as a result of that limited availability.                                                                  King Crimson 1969
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