Another great performance. The Spanish/Catalan crowd was perhaps predictably crazy about the new "VROOOM". "Level Five" was a monster. "Peace" is a... lovely way to start a set when one expects to hear the equally awesome "Devil Dogs". Unfortunately, there were some small sound issues throughout and I couldn't hear Tony's playing at all on "The Talking Drum". Still a wonderful night of Krim music that will stay with me for a long while. Fingers crossed for more new material (written after the new material played in these shows) next time. :)
Is it an accident that the glancing glockenspiel figure heard at the beginning and elsewhere within the track bring to mind the motif which bookends the original studio version of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part I? Maybe but with Crimson and the heft and weave of musical information that’s woven into their music it doesn’t pay to take such things for granted. Certainly the Jakszyk-Fripp interlocking guitars referring to the ‘80s vocabulary, and the appearance of mellotron in the first chorus adds another layer of association and excitement.
