EXPOSURE

This is for the dudes out there thinking I'm anti Uk. Robert Fripp IS the representant of english middle class, sometimes even full of himself and pretentious. BUT I DO LIKE HIM. He has ideas, which are not cliches, he makes musical movements, and have a hard time to follow them commercially. He couldn't stand to be in one of those generic, professional, but uninspired Prog Bands. He constantly changes.

This album is incredibly modern: "You burn me up a cigarette" is punk at his good core, destruction of rock n roll, breathless is an incredibly intelligent guitar work.I actually managed to play it and, guys, it's a great exercise of time changes.Try to listen to the music rather than hear it. And I know in this case this could be difficult. "Disengage" features an incredible Peter Hammil in an expressive explosion of rage: his voice is still over the top. North star is the premonition of Discipline's Matte Kudasai, moody, atmospgery pieces that already tastes like eighties. Chicago it's the weak spot, together wtih Mary (Roches). Still interesting experiments, they lack Fripp ruthless guitar lines to back them. NY3 is , well, FRIPPIAN: A DIRECT STUDY OVER A NY FAMILY, exposing the outrageous side of our capitalized society ("don't call me a slut!!" "you're a cocaine sniffer"). Fripp guitar is piercing, ironic... looks like a perverted version of Seventh Heaven propaganda show. Exposure is surely a gem. Made with Gabriel for Peter Gabriel 2 , it's NEW WAVE , pure rythm, abrasing funky, tribal screams. Haaden Two reassumes Fripp guitar style on this album , while lines like "frustrating guitar sequences"are read by Eno. If you get the powr of this track, you'll enjoy the whole album, I promise. "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" still works over the alienation in the modern family, how a man and a woman can argue forever over nothing ( this reminds me something........). Water music (former experiments with Eno) brings the listener to Here comes the flood, the most touching thing Gabriel has ever written.it closes this study over the pop song form with great effect. Wall of sounds are employed widely on this tracks, thanks to Eno's genious.

In a few words, Fripp masterpiece, and a masterpiece of its era, and era off deep change, that the british guitarist utilized intelligently to improve his skills, his knowledge about society, and the use of technology.