Earlier in the month the string quintet had played in Argentina before embarking on an North American tour that eventually took them to this date broadcast by the Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW.
There’s a superbly gritty version of Kan Non Power and a rare live outing for a Fripp & Gunn piece called Proto Punk whose origins date back to 1992, and part of which had by the time of this concert already been adapted into Brightness Falls by Fripp & Sylvian. You can also clearly hear ideas that would later surface in a soon-to-be reconvened King Crimson.
Buyer beware: there’s an intermittent electric mains-style hum present on this recording. DGM engineer, Alex Mundy comments “This is a board recording which also has open mics, which are picking up the audience, and a bit of hall, but also there is a hum. I’m not sure if it’s coming from RF’s rack or the lighting. Anyway, believe me, it was a lot worse before David Singleton and I took a lot of it out.”
There’s a drop in volume at the start of Eye Of The Needle though this corrects at about the half-way mark in that piece.
Earlier in the month the string quintet had played in Argentina before embarking on an North American tour that eventually took them to this date broadcast by the Los Angeles-based radio station KCRW.
There’s a superbly gritty version of Kan Non Power and a rare live outing for a Fripp & Gunn piece called Proto Punk whose origins date back to 1...
First of all I will begin this review by saying that The Robert Fripp String Quintet besides King Crimson is maybe my favorite project where Robert Fripp is participating.
Great show and surprisingly different than The Bridge Between, for a change all perfection is taken away as there are moments throughout the recording were you can tell that Mr. Gunn, the CGT and Mr. Fripp are humans, which is a refreshing perspective after being only used to listen to the Bridge Between versions of the alb...
First of all I will begin this review by saying that The Robert Fripp String Quintet besides King Crimson is maybe my favorite project where Robert Fripp is participating.
Great show and surprisingly different than The Bridge Between, for a change all perfection is taken away as there are moments throughout the recording were you can tell that Mr. Gunn, the CGT and Mr. Fripp are humans, which is a refreshing perspective after being only used to listen to the Bridge Between versions of the album. The music of the RFSQ manage to capture a sensitivity in music which is hard to find in technical complicated music.
Yes there is a hum throughout the recording and during loud music passages gets difficult to hear, however soundscape improvisation suffers some kind of distortion in the highest pitched notes.
All in all a great listening as an alternative to the perfect execution of the Bridge Between, great live album download.
Written by James Blevins
Erroneous indexing of samples of wonderful music
Wonderful music.Unfortunately, the samples’ indexing seems one-off around the GC material: "Eye of the needle" and "Bicycling to Afghanistan". (Any DGM person is welcome to delete this post, upon fixing this error, of course.)Best regards, Jim
Written by Alex Durante
Superb sound quality, but...
there is a mistake in the track listing. What is listed as "Walk Don’t Run" is actually "Pipeline."
