ROBERT FRIPP & ANDY SUMMERS: I ADVANCE MASKED

The product of a couple of stints of recording from just just before and a bit after the sessions for King Crimson's Beat, Andy Summers and Robert Fripp's I Advance Masked sees the Police and King Crimson guitarists going on a journey of ambient guitar exploration. Naturally, it's like nothing in the Police catalogue, and there's precious little in the King Crimson repertoire which resembles it, beyond some of the more ambient and outre instrumental passages on their 1980s albums, the resemblence largely coming from Fripp chewing over similar guitar ideas there as here.

The closest comparison, however, is to an even more guitar-oriented take on Fripp's collaborations with Eno or his solo work, with the dual lead approach here allowing Fripp to intertwine his guitar sound with Summers much as he would with Adrian Belew in King Crimson at the same time. The end result is more thoughtful, less intrusive, more ambiently inclined, and less tempestuous than Fripp or Summers' day jobs, and it's a solid piece of work provided you weren't expecting Elephant Talk or Every Breath You Take.

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