ITCOTCK Blurred
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 13, 2012
My thanks to World Leader Symes who tells me "In this month's Q magazine there is an interview with Graham Coxon, the guitarist with Blur. I think the article is called The Soundtrack of My Life. He is holding a copy of the album cover (vinyl!) for Court and this is what he says:

Q: What album do never tire of hearing?

King Crimson’s In The Court Of The Crimson King is an album I can become pretty obsessed with. I can’t listen to it just once, I have to listen to it again. Immediately. It has really pretty, fairy sort of songs on it and quite big ones. It’s just so exciting. It’s just my favourite things: organs, drums and guitars all going mental!

A Digital Deal In The Offing?
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 13, 2012
My thanks to several folks who pointed me toward this article indicating that Sony might be settling their dispute with a variety of artists over the thorny question of digital rights. 

King Crimson Live in Central Park 1974
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Mar 12, 2012
Today's download features the last time Bill Bruford, David Cross, Robert Fripp and John Wetton played a concert together.

Not A Universal Panacea
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Mar 12, 2012
My thanks to rockyroad for altering me to this piece in The Guardian about what UMG’s takeover of EMI might mean for musical diversity. 

Starless & Lizard Blogged
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Mar 11, 2012
The 40th Anniversary editions of the Starless and Bible Black and Lizard have been exercising the ears, minds and fingers of some of their listeners. Here's SCV's take on SABB, while Lizard receives this appraisal from NuVoid. My thanks to LesleyBeeman for the heads-up on the latter. 

Here It Is...
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Mar 7, 2012
your moment of Penston!

The Wine Of Silence - The Book!
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Mar 6, 2012
Andrew Keeling has a book of the scores for The Wine Of Silence available. You can find out more and preview the book here. 

The Wine Of Silence
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Mar 5, 2012
After several years in the making, the orchestral soundscapes album, The Wine of Silence will be released on April 30th 2012.

Based upon meticulous transcriptions by the California Guitar Trio’s Bert Lams, Andrew Keeling’s startling and impressive orchestrations were recorded by the Metropole Orchestra in 2003. With those tapes subsequently treated by David Singleton - co-producer of all of Fripp’s Soundscapes recordings to date  - The Wine Of Silence forms a sublime and often moving collection of contemporary orchestral music.

Pre-order details will be announced shortly. You can read my take on the album over on the blog.

Mister Stormy's Monday Selection
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Mar 5, 2012
Here's Trey and Tony taking a tune for a walk during the sessions for Thrak.   

Crim On Coe
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Tue., Feb 28, 2012
My thanks to Andrew John for alerting me to some impending Crimson on the radio. Andrew writes "it’s been a long time since I was able to point out to my mother that King Crimson are refered to in the BBC Radio Times. Get yourselves tuned to Gideon Coe this Thursday and wallow in the recognition only occasionally the popular media affords ’our’ band. What is chosen to be played will be interesting in itself." The session in question is likely to be the old BBC In Concert session taken from the Concertgebouw Night Watch concert. We wait with baited breath until Thursday!