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King Crimson

Eclectic Prog

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KEEP ON PROGGIN', CRIMSON KING !!

This is a 4.5 stars really; only the closing self-titled track is rather dull and gets me tired. But the rest is an absolute masterpiece.

Maybe the main reason of this drastic change of musical direction (more poppish if you want) is the join of singer/guitarist Adrian Belew, who came from Talking Heads to be one of the founders of this new King Crimson, after seven years of inactivity. Bass guitar virtuoso Tony Levin joined the band as well, giving a more distictive sound to the music. Now in the eighties, no mellotrons needed; just the excellent guitar interplay between Belew and Robert Fripp is enough to create all the sounds and atmospheres that many synths could do, with a touch of minimalism in some passages. And Bruford's percussion works are perhaps less energetic and outstanding than on previous stuff, but still excellent, no doubt. That's what this album offers, in summary.

My cup of tea of the album could be 'Sheltering Sky', with nice percussions (similar to bongos, but I think it's not...), the distorted guitar sounds of Fripp and Belew and that weird melody. An excellent atmospheric track, although the awesome ballad 'Matte Kudasai' (in japanese "please wait for me") is worthy of mention too. It has beautiful lyrics and melody. Touches me deeply, as ballads use to do.

Elephant Talk = 9/10 Frame by Frame = 9.5/10 Matte Kudasai = 10/10 Indiscipline = 10/10 Thela Hun Ginjeet = 9/10 Sheltering Sky = 10/10 Discipline = 8/10 (unfortunately a low end)

That's it. Don't ask me for the exact average; I hate maths, hee hee hee..... The sunrise of the eighties (supposed as an anti-prog period) and King Crimson is still proggin' fine. Highly reccomended, even for Crimson fans who are still into something between ITCOTCK and Red. This is a must-have.

Cosick.

sircosick | 4/5 | 2007-8-5

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