(2022) King Crimson – In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50


Review:
…including live and studio performances from the 50th anniversary tour. The music from the original soundtrack (and more) is spread over 4 CDs and features many previously unreleased and new to CD tracks.
Toby Amies’ film about one of rock music’s most enduring, but simultaneously elusive, bands provides a unique insight into the working process of a complex touring band, interspersed with contributions from previous band members to provide a contextual backdrop to the band’s past, as the most recent (2014-2021) line-up tours the world just before and during its 50th anniversary. As King Crimson producer and band manager, David Singleton observed of the film: “All of life is here, not just music, and certainly not just rock. It has rightly been described as going beyond King Crimson into a ‘universal, inspirational study of what it is to work or dream to work as an artist’.” While director Toby Amies writes of the experience: “In the Court of the Crimson King is not a film that wants to tell the audience what to think, rather it presents several different points of view about the creative process and what it means to be in this most unusual band; leaving the audience with a sense of both how complicated it all is, but also just how incredibly rewarding the King Crimson experience is both for the musicians and its fans.” Robert Fripp announced that King Crimson had “moved from sound to silence” on social media after their final date in Japan in December 2021, making this release all the more poignant as a unique record of the band’s longest lasting line-up with tantalising glimpses of the band’s history. King Crimson has been described as popular but never populist. Just as King Crimson has been, for more than half a century, an atypical rock band, this film is a refreshingly atypical music documentary. — burningshed


   


Track List:

Disc 1
01. Introductory Bellscape – Live 06-07/11/18 *
02. 21st Century Schizoid Man (edit) – mixed by Steven Wilson 2019
03. Moonchild (including cadenzas) – Live in Philadelphia, 23/09/19 **
04. Cat Food – from Cat Food EP Alt. mix by David Singleton
05. Lizard - i 1970, Keith Tippett piano, ii iii iv – Live in Rome 23/07/18 *
06. The Letters – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
07. Sailorʼs Tale – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
08. Easy Money – Live in Oakland 05/09/19 **
09. Larksʼ Tongues in Aspic Part Two (Fripp) – Alt. mix by Steven Wilson 2012

Disc 2
01. Fracture – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
02. Fallen Angel – 2009 remaster by Robert Fripp & Simon Heyworth
03. Discipline – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
04. Cadence and Cascade – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
05. The ConstruKction Of Light – Live In Nijmegen, 22/06/19 **
06. Peace – Live in Vienna 01/12/16
07. Matte Kudasai (alt. intro) Recorded at Island Studios, 1981
08. The Mincer – Live in Zurich, 1973, completed at Air Studios, 1974
09. A Scarcity of Miracles – Live in Japan 2015
10. Radical Action Suite - Live In The Studio, Tring, 2018
11. Peace a Theme – mixed by Steven Wilson 2022 *

Disc 3
01. Drumzilla – Live in Los Angeles 06/08/21 *
02. Waiting Man – Live in Frejus 27/08/82
03. Seizure – Live in San Francisco, 01/11/98
04. The Talking Drum – Alt. mix by Steven Wilson 2012
05. Indiscipline – Live in Del Ray Beach 23/07/21 **
06. Exposure – Mixed by Steven Wilson 2021
07. VROOOM – Live in Toronto 20/11/15
08. Coda: Marine 475 -Live in London 01/07/96
09. Darts – 2022 remaster by Marian Hafenstein at Possible Studios, Berlin **
10. Requiem (Extended version) – mixed by Steven Wilson 2013

Disc 4
1. Walk On: Rio – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/19 *
2. Larksʼ Tongues in Aspic Part One – Live in Stuttgart 16/06/19 ***
3. Breathless – Live in Poland 2018
4. One More Red Nightmare – Live in Sandy 03/08/21 ***
5. Epitaph – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/20 *
6. Frame By Frame – Live in Nashville 27/09/19 ***
7. Pictures of a City – Live in Osaka 02/12/21 ***
8. Red – Live in St. Augustine 24/07/21 ***
9. The Court Of The Crimson King – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/21 *
10. Starless – Live in Tokyo 08/12/21 *

* Previously unreleased, ** Previously Available via download at DGM Live/Cassette only
release, *** Previously available in a different mix/master at DGM Live. All asterisked material new to CD.


Media Report:
Genre: progressive rock
Country: London, England
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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