Compared to some of the previous soundscapes on this leg of the tour, Oslo is a relatively muted affair albeit with some interesting Debussy-like run of descending notes appearing during Paradise Lost and a wonderfully glacial Paradise Regained.
Fripp notes in his diary “At the beginning of the tour, I suggested that 30 minutes of Soundscapes would be the right length for G3 audiences. This view has now been accepted, on the basis of regular booing and slow handclapping; although for some of tonight's audience it felt that 20 minutes would have been sufficient for a lifetime.”
Not everyone agreed however. Christophe who was 15 years old on the night he attended the gig offered this assessment of his first encounter with soundscapes. “Fripp was very experimental and gave my musical sense a new kind of blood with his symphonic frippertronics and so on. it was beautiful! (those magic sounds sounded like a hundred synthesizers or so) Though, I wish he could have been a bit more "on stage":), less Shyboy;)”.
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