The Independent (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Led by oddball singer/songwriter Samuel Flynn Scott, Wellington sextet the Phoenix Foundation are surely the most potent band to come out of New Zealand since the far-off days of the Chills.
Red Tory v.3.0 (Free subscription) | yesterday
Brilliant video interpretation of a classic King Crimson song. There’s actually a long and convoluted back-story to this relating to the subversive theories of mechanistic hazard as a means of creative evolution put forward by the English philosopher and polymath J.G. Bennett (via Gurdjieff, Ouspensky and Liebnitz), but I won’t bore you with that. [...]
Blogcritics: Music (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp have breathed new life into a Crimson classic.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder {{Robert Fripp = 16099}}'s guitar parts, but...
CD Reviews by C60Crew (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Bob Burnett: Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Tin Hat Trio, Young Marble Giants. A diverse set of musical styles that bring to mind eccentric, spare, haunting music. I'm adding The Big Eyes Family's Do the Musicking to that wide ranging group of oh so masterful artists. Do the Musicking is a series of short cuts--mostly 2 minutes or so in length-- that form a 29 track-72 minute compilation. There's a yard sale...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Yesterday I stumbled upon a rather good BBC Four documentary about British progressive rock on Vimeo. Watch or grab it before it's gone. Aside from the groups most everyone knows (or maybe dreads by reputation) - Yes, King Crimson, Jethro Tull, Genesis, ELP - other lesser-known bands get much more than a nod as well, including two of my favorites, Soft Machine and egg (bonus music geek points for...
Vinyl Records (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Island - King Crimson Very good condition; cover fair. Track Listings1. Formentera Lady (10:14)2. Sailor's Tale (7:21)3. The Letters (4:26)4. Ladies Of The Road (5:28)5. Prelude: Song Of The Gulls (4:14)6. Islands (11:51)Total Time: 43:34Line-up/Musicians- Robert Fripp / guitar, mellotron, Peter's Pedal Harmonium and sundry implements- Mel Collins / flute, bass flute, saxes and vocals- Boz / bass
lost at e minor (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Named after a King Crimson album (though they claim otherwise), Starless and Bible Black draw heavily from prog and jazz to create their spaced-out, stargazing sound that feels like novocaine to the brain stem. The trio evokes dark forests and calling loons with Moog, guitar, and wood-nymph vocals, yet nothing threatening lurks in their woods, [...]
Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
CHENNAI: Dancer’s Wave, a last outing winner, may repeat in the Class I Brazil Plate (1,200m), the feature event of the races to be held here on Monday (Nov. 16). False rails (width about 12 mts from 1,400m to the winning post) ...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King (40th Anniversary Series) Discipline Global Mobile 2009 It was, quite simply, a sound that shook the music world. When King Crimson emerged from the dust of the considerably more oblique and largely absurd trio of Giles, Giles and Fripp--whose one release, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp (Deram, 1968), was aptly titled--nobody could have...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
King Crimson Lizard (40th Anniversary Series) Discipline Global Movile 2009 Often forgotten and sometimes maligned, Lizard is a King Crimson classic that's waited to be found for nearly 40 years. When it was first released in 1970, it was quickly overlooked as a transitional album between the group that recorded/released/toured its seminal debut, In the Court of the Crimson King (DGM Live, 1969) and...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
With numerous "definitive" editions already out, what can one more kick at the can of progressive rock progenitor King Crimson's discography offer? Plenty. With the entire Crimson catalog being remixed, remastered, and offered as CD/DVD-A sets that include stereo and 5.1 surround remixes in MLP Lossless, PCM Stereo, and DTS 5.1 formats, based on the first two 40th Anniversary Series releases--1975's...
DJ Martian's Page (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
New issue of The Wire : The Wire: #310 | Sensational | December 2009 On The Cover: Sensational - The New York 'freak styler' MC and former Jungle Brother documents life on the edge through a surrealist fog of text. Plus: The now sound of Sheffield, King Crimson Primer, Carlos Giffoni's Invisible Jukebox, Ben Frost, Lubomyr Melnyk, Oneohtrix Point Never, Nico Vascellari, Dãm-Funk and more
Good Rockin' Tonight (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Lone Rhino is the first solo-career album by the artist Adrian Belew following years of playing in groups such as Talking Heads (as a touring member) and King Crimson (as lead singer and main songwriter), Frank Zappa, and David Bowie to name a few. Really the list of people he has played with is pretty incredible as he is widely recognized as an "incredibly versatile player. He remains one of...
Vinyl Records (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon Good condition (1 scratch), perfect original cover. Classic artwork Robert Fripp, guitar, mellotron, and devices; Greg Lake, vocals; Michael Giles, drums; Peter Giles, bass; Keith Tippett, piano; Mel Collins, saxes and flute; Gordon Haskell, vocal on "Cadence and Cascade"; Peter Sinfield, wordsTracklist:1. Peace - A Beginning — 6:252. Pictures...
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