Zepp Osaka Osaka Japan

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In his diary he notes “This evening’s performance was made possible by the quality of the audience’s listening.[endtease] Very generous & quiet. This enabled me to think and continue thinking, and use dynamics. For the second evening, Soundscapes began with Fantasia On The Theme Of Schizoid.”

Perhaps in anticipation of this very moment in a recent diary entry he also offers this definition of the term from the Encyclopedia Britannica…
“in music, a composition free in form and inspiration, usually for an instrumental soloist… In England the fantasy or fancy for keyboard, lute, or viola had a late flowering at the time of Henry Purcell (1659–95)… Some composers have exploited the fantasia for its programmatic, or descriptive, possibilities… While appealing particularly to the romantic imagination, the fantasia served, from the beginning, also as a vehicle for instrumental elaboration of vocal music” adding that “This Schizoid Fantasia would not be easily confused with the original Schizoid.”

Though it may be darker in tone and shade than the churchscapes series, the second night of Robert’s slot on the Porcupine Tree has an almost scary clarity – direct from heart. When he plays that long lonesome note and lets it float near the end of the Schizoid Fantasia there’s a palpable sense of release and letting go.

Elsewhere "Time Stands Still" has a rhythmic dimension over which Fripp solos and this blissful Evensong is about as close as we’ve ever been to old-school Frippertronics and indeed some of the melodic aspects of Evening Star.
Zepp Osaka Osaka Japan

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TRACK
TIME
01
Bell Threshold
01:25
02
Schizoid Fantasia
09:00
03
Bell Transition
03:03
04
Time Stands Still
10:17
05
Evensong
07:00

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Written by Alan Wilde
Breakthrough
I find this to be one of Robert’s breakthroughs.  It has feeling elements putting the best of Soundscapes with a level of soloing that is heart felt but dark. It is also more open that a transition has been made.  It is truly a great work.
Written by Will Cruttenden
Dishy
Glorious. I found this to be a whole new soundscape experience. The darkness, the rhythms, that amzing held note in the fantasia section - all I could do was sit and soak it up as if (mixing metaphors) I’d discovered a wonderful new dish in a familiar restaurant.  
Written by Louie Bourland
Darker but still Beautiful
The first DGMLive release of 2007 is a surefire winner - Robert Fripp’s opening Soundscapes performance for the band Porcupine Tree in Osaka, Japan on November 28th of last year. Despite this download being only a half-hour long, this performance is amazing, arguably moreso than 2005’s ’December Suite’ series of concerts. After the standard opening "Bell Threshold" comes the dark forboding "Schizoid Fantasia". There is no resemblance to the King Crimson classic "21st Century Schizoid ...
Written by Armand Gieling
A stunning 30 minutes!!
      First of all, I wish everyone a happy 2007!       Very short after finishing this download, and listening to it, I was struck by-        a sort of digital lightning, as it were. There is a strange darkness in between-        the soundclusters, who are flying by, while gives me shivers all over!        There is definitely a difference here. Sho...
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