King Crimson - 2014 NYC : 2 x vinyl lps (due to size and weight, this price for the USA only. Outside of the USA, the price will be adjusted as needed)
SKU
28-KCLPX 2014
“New King Crimson LIVE compilation series from the band's 2014 to 2021 line-up, starting with '2014 NYC'.
Taken from live multi-track recordings from the band's electric four-night run in September 2014 (18th - 21st Sept) New sleeve notes from King Crimson biographer Sid Smith.”
“For King Crimson, New York was never just a tour-stop – it was a recurring stage in the band’s mythology. Starting with the 1969 Fillmore East breakthrough and running through those early-’70s returns, climaxing in the Larks’-era farewell to that chapter at Central Park in 1974.
And when Crimson kept mutating, the city kept calling them back: Robert Fripp later pointed to the six nights at the Savoy in 1981 (after rehearsals tucked away in the garment district) as a high-water mark, and later line-ups - the Double Trio, Double Duo, and a 2008 quintet with newly recruited Gavin Harrison at the Nokia Theatre continued the Manhattan connection, right up to a major reset at the same venue (by then the Best Buy Theatre) in 2014.
Crucially, they didn’t treat the back catalogue like museum pieces; they played it as living material, rebuilt with microscopic attention rather than copied note-for-note.”
Disc: 1
1 Introductory Soundscape
2 Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)
3 Pictures of a City
4 A Scarcity of Miracles
5 The Letters
6 The Sailor's Tale
7 The Hell Hounds of Krim
Disc: 2
1 Red
2 Improv: Hoodoo
3 The Talking Drum
4 Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)
5 Vroom
6 Coda: Marine 475
7 The Light Of Day
8 21st Century Schizoid Man
- LabelPanegyric
- UPC633367799012