King Crimson — 20 May 2025
Previously released in the 2015 THRAK boxed set, now available to download for the first time. Download JurassiKc THRAK A 67 minute fly-on-the-wall audio documentary, edited & assembled by David Singleton from stereo running DAT tapes of the recording sessions for the album at Real World Studios, Box, 24th October to 19th November 1994. Recording engineers David Bottrill and Russell Kearney....
King Crimson — 17 May 2025
King Crimson’s drummer from 1972-1997 is 76 today. Bill Bruford has played on a host of classic albums including Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Red and Discipline, and has also been a DGM artist with his own band Earthworks, and projects with Ralph Towner and Tony Levin. Bill Bruford drumming with the Pete Roth Trio (photo by Graham Hutton) After putting away his drum sticks and retiring...
King Crimson — 14 May 2025
Newly revitalized and hot off the release of Discipline. 29 new shows from King Crimson's 1981 North American tour now streaming exclusively on nugs ➡️ nugs.net/KingCrimson When Discipline was released in September 1981, its taut, streamlined compositions and fresh harmonic ideas felt like a quantum leap from the King Crimson of the past. The shift surprised both fans and critics-...
King Crimson — 12 May 2025
Listening in at DGM studios last week. David Singleton and Alex ‘Stormy’ Mundy were hard at work on the Elemental Mixes of tracks from Lizard for the forthcoming CD/Blu-ray Dolby Atmos Complete Recordings edition. And some very interesting new ways of looking at the music are emerging. Elemental Mixes have been described as “An excitingly fresh view on the familiar, with the focus often...
King Crimson — 1 May 2025
Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive 6. Dee Anthony meeting with members of King Crimson at the start of the US Tour in February 1972. Dee Anthony speaking to Robert Fripp at The Armoury in Wilmington, Delaware. Dee Anthony was King Crimson’s heavyweight manager in the USA from 1969 to 1972, part of the old school of artist representatives that was populated by larger-than-life characters like...
King Crimson — 28 Apr 2025
Download: FraKctured - guitars and bass. Recorded in October 1999 at Adrian Belew's studio in Nashville. Stormy brings us a companion to his last month's breakdown of the 1974 instrumental Fracture with this close up inspection of the guitar and bass parts from FraKctured, from The ConstruKction of Light era Crimson. “This is terrifying stuff for me, right on the edge of what is possible,”...
King Crimson — 24 Apr 2025
A complete album’s worth of Elemental Mixes by long-time King Crimson producer (& band manager) David Singleton, using the original multi-track recordings to present a very different audio picture of the album, with greater separation of instruments and utilising many recorded elements recorded for, but not included in, the original mixes. As King Crimson biographer Sid Smith puts it in his new...
King Crimson — 23 Apr 2025
Join us in sending birthday wishes to King Crimson’s violin and keyboard player from 1972 -1974. Playing on such legendary albums as Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red, as well as many live albums, aside from his signature violin parts on tracks including Starless and Exiles, multi-instrumentalist David also played the Mellotron and electric piano and, in the early days...
King Crimson — 17 Apr 2025
Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive 5. The address of the band’s accommodation in February 1969 from Ian’s notebook. 47 Lawe Road was a guest house in South Shields, a coastal town that sits at the mouth of the River Tyne, twelve and a half miles, roughly a half hour’s drive, from the city centre of Newcastle where the band had been booked to play a week of gigs. They arrived as Giles, Giles &...