Robert Fripp
(Three stars)
At The End of Time
My thanks to Will Cruttenden for sending me this review from the latest edition of Mojo.
Former King Crimson guitarist goes to church.
This cerebral performer has found a vast new audience by supplying the sounds used on Windows Vista. Intrigued computer fans wanting more can join him on a tour of churches in England and Estonia from which these ten improvised pieces are culled. With a guitar and racks of electronica, Fripp clones himself into a celestial orchestra, where shafts of melody play about chords of billowing synth strings. This is a sound world heavily explored by electronic artists from Tangerine Dream and Tomita onwards - and Fripp's individualism isn't always apparent in his ambient universe. There are, though, moments of pellucid beauty - the languid guitar theme of Evensong: Tallinn; the waterfall of tumbling notes that climaxes At The End Of Time: Broad Chalke. Fripp is revealed as a deeply spiritual performer - just the sort of person you'd want lurking inside your PC. (John Bungey)
We have a copy of the aforementioned album to giveaway to a lucky DGMLive visitor. All you have to do is to send an email to competitions@dgmlive.com with Churchscapes in the subject header and your name and postal address in the message. The winner will be picked at random and announced on Saturday 21st July.