DISCIPLINE

Yeah, here we go. The first KC studio album after RED. Seven years have gone by, bringing new wave and punk as the mainstream..... And KC evolves.For Fripp changed style. Experiences like those wonderful albums with Bowie, Eno, Gabriel, Summers, made our popular guitarist develop an incredible style of playing, which gave fresh air to his compositions.The man actually knew how to use those late seventies tecnologies - synths - to express music rather than enslaving it in freezing productions. Let's put this thing together with a new , skilled set of musicians ( Belew met during Bowie's " Lodger" sessions, Levin from the previous Gabriel's experiences, Brudford from well, the golden years of the King), and you got a stunning album. Elephant Talk , first track, just makes you aware this is not prog music in a sense of those "complicated 70s rock tunes". That's why I really can't think of prog rock as an existing genre. We got Belew screaming like a Byrnian crazy fool, over layers synth textures, electronic drums, whailing sticks, sparkles of neaon flashes and cold steel: Discipline defines itself a genre. Frame by frame, for example, it's a normal commercial pop tune, but boostered with hyper intelligent arrangements, Fripp's guitar going as fast as the light over interlocking guitar phrases (that's what I actually call virtuosism, dear prog metal fans). It's a catchy tune elevated to an excellent level by intelligent players. Matte Kudasai is wonderful: eigthies city lights, charming, with Belew rumorist guitar singing breathing loud, Paul Verlaine's seagull style. Indiscipline: so is it prog or not? I don't think sooooo...... Talikng Heads couldn't have done better on this. Belew voice and theatrical interpretation is majestic... a real man machine from the eighties!!! Solos are erupting, one of the few guys who actually KNOWS how to use a Strat bar. Tela hun gingeet is the same for Frame by Frame, pop tune elevated with that "real tape" Frippian taste and a powerful mid section........ Then the last 2 pearls: The sheltering sky and Discipline. The former is astonishing: the best thin KC has ever done in the eighites, really reaches something beyond prog (just like LTIA did) and touches the world of art. Technology really expands mind if used correctly. Those synths weren't used to emulate other instruments, but as an instrument of their kind. And, oh, those ethnic percussions, Fripp fingers flying fast over icy notes..... incredible. And Discipline? Intelligent. A little bit pretentious, but really intelligent: that must have been a killer in lives..... seeing 2 guitarist not tapping nor running at 90 mph with their guitars, and still having your jaw opened , wondering what's going on, means THIS ACTUALLY IS MUSIC. The album stops abrupting with the logical guitars lines hushing at the same second. Mathematically: it's a very, very rational album. Do listen to BELVA guys...... download it, copy it , don't care.. just listen to it!!!!!!!!