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    Wulfren Civic Hall    Wolverhampton, UK
 
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Sometimes, if we’re lucky, music transcends the space and time of its creation. The set at Wulfren Hall is one of those. It’s nothing short of a miracle that music as sublime and as searching as this was able to emerge from an environment where the majority of the crowd were waiting expectantly for Porcupine Tree. Mind you, that's not as bad as some of the people who were there to see Fripp play.
AV Hall recalls that “a guy in the T-shirt with a print of RF’s equipment set-up bundled past me as the doors opened shouting "I must see Fripp, I must see Fripp" was the first one to take a picture of him standing in the wings. One of his party subsequently took a second picture as the guitarist sat down. Stepping back from my standing position in the second row I accidentally backed into the guy who had a concealed DAT recorder and a tiny microphone positioned out of his top jacket pocket.”
With friends like these, etc., etc. Remarkably, none of these obstacles is apparent in the soundscape we have here. To these ears, the version of Time Stands Still is one of the best in the whole series of the December suite to date.


From Robert’s diary

Throat pain this evening continues to be excruciating, so great that 30 minutes was all I could manage onstage. A supportive audience in a standing hall.

 

Tracks
Disc Number 1
1.  Threshold Bells  [PREVIEW]  0.48
2.  Time Stands Still  [PREVIEW]  14.03
3.  Queer Jazz Symmetrical  [PREVIEW]  4.09
4.  Threshold Future Shift  [PREVIEW]  1.15
5.  At The End Of Time  [PREVIEW]  11.25
6.  Coda Bells  [PREVIEW]  3.00

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Personnel
Robert Fripp - Guitar

 


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Written by davidfsnyder
Luckily for us, Mr. Fripp listens to his muse and not to his listeners. This performance, just shy of 34 minutes long, is both heartfelt and visceral. The stereo production is tender, provide good depth and width throughout; a quad or 5.1 version would be worthy of this particular Soundscape, performed on a late version of The Lunar Module (perhaps the last tour with The Lunar Module?). The bells are a brilliant introduction, awakening, perhaps even alarming, the listener to what follows. In Time Stands Still, we have time slowing, ebbing forward and backward in beautiful eddies. Cycles repeat; voices are reflected and reversed in time. The individual cries out at its reaching this point. But can time stand still forever? Queer Jazz Symmetrical: bass, horns, piano voices welcome us into a place that is uncertain, or at least that never resolves, a morphing figure. This section cycles through darkness and light, through the tragic and comic. At The End Of Time is beautiful and peaceful, yet affirming. Thank you for this offering, DGM.

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