Super Audio Mastering Monks Withecombe
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Super Audio Mastering Monks Withecombe, Dartmoor.
Car-loading done, our work for today begins: creating surround-sound from the original stereo mixes of Trio and The Mincer. Penteo leads the way.
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Boodledang
:: Posted by cantspelldiKc on June 09, 2011
I didn’t know a virtual punch in the face would actualy hurt, had a headache all night as I’m a sensitive kind of guy. So I wooped up a little Liber Oz this morning (virtual of course) and poof, headache gone, just like magiK. Imagine that! ...... I was contemplating what a double trio consisting of Adrian Belew, Dweezil Zappa, Pat Mastelotto,Terry Bozzio, Trey Gunn and Tony Levin would sound like. I figured a little Red a little Thrack and a little Frying Pan would be a worthy concert to attend. Fripp calling the shots from DGM England between tea and crumpets. It obviously was just a FANtazy as I don,t believe anyone at DGM puts much stock in the suggestions blurted out on the forum. )|(
A virtual punch-in-the-face carries its own reality. Anyone who has experienced the tangibility of directed-thought and the reality of thought-forms, especially driven by negative emotional-heat, has no difficulty in finding sympathy for Mr. cantspelldiKc and his headache. If I may type-speak for myself: having suffered and endured the projections (no K in there) of fans, commentators and other players over four decades, it would not have been possible to continue, had I had only set out to earn a living (itself a sufficient aim and acceptable, even worthy, achievement). As an education in the human condition and our fallen nature, while the Creative Impulse tries to give itself away in exchange only for an open hand, my professional life has been a stunning success; an expensive education paid for in high-denomination currency. Certainly, unless I had felt the necessity of what was underway, it would not have been possible to continue.
Here at Monks Withecombe over the past three mornings, sitting gently and observing the personal process, afterwards spending the days continuing to address the repercussions of work undertaken 37-38 years ago, I have respect for the young man who set out with an unlikely background to enter a field in which he had no natural talent; and persisted, against gravity, for 42 years. I have given him permission to accept that the work he had to achieve in this life has been sufficiently achieved, and now move on; and watch as much begins to fall away from his presence, his personal state and condition becoming happier by the week, and sometimes by the day.
I have no idea, sitting here now, as to how he managed to put up with all the nonsense, delusion and fantasy, dishonesty and theft, manipulation, constant motion and inappropriate demands that described the life. On the other hand, of course I know! Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice; and even gives them the breath to do so.
A Double Trio of Adrian Belew, Dweezil Zappa, Pat Mastelotto, Terry Bozzio, Trey Gunn and Tony Levin would persuade me to part with my own hard-earned pay (the small proportion of which eventually and actually arrives) but it would not be King Crimson. That disturbs me not-at-all; rather, it serves to excite me: the formation would have the freedom to discover, and be, who it is.
10.27 Trio is in 5.1 Penteo. The front line is in the back line, and wonderfully available to a pair of honest ears. The technical difficulty was to get Trio as a trio.
10.49 A through-listen to the 5.1 of SABB.
12.58 An e-mail to Johnny the W on tour with the original
Asians today in Aschaffenburg, Germany.
Here, onto bonus tracks from the Wilson–Fripp 5.1 mix of
The Nightwatch. Live in the Amsterdam Congertgebouw in November 1973.
The rationale: half of SABB is recorded live from the Amsterdam performance, so what else in the way of live magic and wonderment might lurk there? We are mastering Easy Money as a bonus blast of Crimson horror for the SABB 5.1 and it’s ace; but much of the live material doesn’t benefit from the surround treatment IMO.
13.19 From the world of the
Sidney Smith’s Yellow Room…
Mel Collins, playing with Fripp for the first time since 1974‘s Red, was always every bit the equal of the feted guitarist.
Actually, Mel was well ahead of the guitarist; who ran to keep up with Mel walking.
15.17 Larks’ Tongues In Aspic 5.1 mix now underway.
16.24 LTIA Part One now sounding as it was meant to sound; and never, until this point, quite succeeding. Stunning.
17.55 Exiles has never sounded this good. The first side of LTIA stomped, vibrated and tickled.
It strikes me, listening over the past three days and dealing with the KC re-presentations and Anniversary Editions, that the KC music of the classic period, 1969-74, is quite extraordinary; and its nature has not yet been fully revealed / discussed / explained. Careless comments, even from good writers, such as bands like Emerson, Lake & Palmer and King Crimson; or Yes, Genesis and King Crimson – King Crimson were nothing like the other bands of its generation. More accurately: the other bands, all more popular, liked and commercially successful, with their own triumphs and failures, were nothing like King Crimson.
The surround mixes make this clearer to me: there is a distinction and clarity, sitting in the middle of – exactly what? This isn’t quite rock music, yet it’s nearer rock than other forms. Crim’s music changes yet is always Crim. Something astonishing is at the heart of it all, and whatever that astonishing is, it has not yet been fully articulated. And, were it to be, would likely attract the dopey commentary we associate with progressive rock. KC was the first group of distinct new-generation players in the music that became known as progressive. So, perhaps KC is the Progressive Band. But, as the movement is generally regarded today, the KC music I have been listening to recently is nothing like progressive rock, while also defining it. A contradiction, certainly.
Farewell, Monks Withecombe! I…
II...
Off to Worcestershire.
20.56 Bredonborough.
A swift journeying here. Unpacking. The Minx arrives home in an hour or so from The Electric Cinema in Birmingham, where she is doing a Q&A for her recent film, The Power Of Three.
