WASHINGTON SQUARE CHURCH

This is such a treat!

Robert Fripp at his best Fripperctronics which are as astounding as mysterious and beuatiful as it could get ,yet obscure and bright and in between.

What a treat. I wonder how the audience reacted to this marvel all way back in 1981 in NYC where there was non of this kind of electric guitar revolution happening but at the end of the day what a privilege to have heard this wonder.

This Robert Fripp - Washington Square Church (2022), was recorded as told in 1981 and then brought to life (for our ears) in 2022.

I am a follower of Fripp since I can not remember but this music reminds me of the past and future.

To put it in this work for future followers this is Progessive Electronic but all made up with electric guitar with tapes running around loops and solos interacting over them.

What can I say.........Creative truly. A genius at work live!

5 stars no less.

Compiles and condenses the choicest cuts from Fripp's brief residency at Washington Square Church from late July to early August 1981. This would have been at a time when King Crimson's Discipline was recorded, but had not yet released - but rather than previewing the sound of that album, these small solo concerts were if anything a mild step back to 1979 and his Frippertronic shows undertaken in that year, prior to Fripp pivoting back to band projects (with the League of Gentlemen project coming and going, the Discipline project forming, and then the new King Crimson emerging from out of Discipline).

If you've heard Let the Power Fall or the God Save the Queen side of God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners, you know what to expect here; if you haven't, you'd probably be best advised to check out the reissues of those before you opt for even more Frippertronics. This is good, but between this and Fripp's other releases in this vein (both by himself and with Eno) it does seem like the format has its limitations and you only need so much of this stuff.