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.
