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! 

League of Gentlemen In Paris
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Mon., Feb 27, 2012
Mister Stormy has whipped out his audio Brasso and polished up this rather fine recording of the League of Gentlemen wowing the punters in the Bataclan.

Crimson & The Hall Of Fame
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Sun., Feb 26, 2012
My thanks to Tony for alerting me to this piece in Goldmine about KC and the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. 

Well Fancy That...Part 823
:: Posted by Sid Smith on Wed., Feb 22, 2012
My thanks to Festus who came upon this story in the NME about the difficulties artists have making money from YouTube. Festus writes  "Interesting that the band have figured out that they aren't being paid by their old label (EMI !!!!!) for their videos being streamed. I'm glad I play bass with friends as a hobby, it would brreak my heart to get involved in such a bad business."