LOVE CANNOT BEAR

After eight years we can listen brand new soundscapes album of mr. Fripp again - as variation to the last line-up of King Crimson. In addition to soundscapes we can hear guitar (and vocoder in title track) here. Affirmation: New York is my superior favourite on this effort - one of the greatest ambient soundscapes' work of RF ever! And now attention: on May 16 the whole humanity of the world will have the greatest pleasure to celebrate the 60th jubilee of this great musician and philosopher Robert Fripp - congratulations!

It's a great album, the only thing I did not like is the singing on love cannot bear (the song). Any ways Fripp always delivers fans with new thrilling sounds. Interesting enough is his Easter Sunday, my predilected song from the album.

Fripp still manages to bring music, spite being tone deft. These soundscapes, and those found on the dgmlive, are always awesome.

If you ve never tried a soundscape album, you should do it right now. And do it with this one. Its simply unbelievable how one single person can generate - and this is the right term here - such a complex and emotionally rich music. When we first listened to it with my wife (who by the way hates almost every kind of music I listen to) in our living room I realised that slowly tears brimmed her eyes, turned to me and said that she couldnot bear this amount of sadness and deep sorrow emanating from the speakers. Its really not an ambient music and of course not a relax tape. After the first listen you ll think that somehow you know more about your life, your being, existence, you experience something about the ultimate reason, get closer to God and from the first note to the last you ll get into some hardly understandable mood of spirituality. Its like drugs, I need it again and again, cos I feel that it really gives me something valuable. Tha Haiku voice at the end is beautiful, impersonal like the reason for being, but somehow friendly like an alien from outer space. And the voice tells the truth. Music is our friend. Music can heal our world. And love cannot bear that even one soul be denied its place in Paradise.

This album is one more soundscapes work from Robert Fripp. Everyone, who loves his music, know, that there are some different lines of music, played and recorded by Robert Fripp. Everyone knows his work in King Crimson and many collaborations with different rock musicians, but beside that there are two more directions: Fripp's frippertronics and Fripp's soundscapes.

Generally soundscapes are kind of rock ambient music played by Fripp using his guitar ( ok, plus some additional devices). It's absolutely mystical, how one can produce so many sounds and play so unusual music using guitar, not keyboards/synthesizers!

For sure, as any ambient this music is rhythmless and usually has not structure. It's more as painting in air using sounds instead of colors. More emotional pictures, that melodic or rhythmic.

Fripp plays that music for years and time to time returns to it again. "Love cannot Bear" is formally live album, but you almost can't feel it. I think, it should be described as live improvisation in ambient. Sounds are very warm, even romantic in places, all the music is around you, and you can feel kind of euforia.

For sure this music is not for everyone.And not for everyday listening. But this album demonstrates highest Soundscapes level. I believe that even unpreparde person will be attracted by all this beautiful ( but not sweet at all!) sounds!

One of the best abient album I ever heard!