Sunrise Musical Theatre Miami United States

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Fripp’s appearance in the G3 roadshow was always going to be something of challenge for those punters of a certain outlook and expectation as to what their guitar heroes get up to. That’s certainly the case if this reflection from one disgruntled G-tour witness is anything to go by. “I love Fripp, but it does show his lack of showmanship i mean playing live is about entertainment above all really... and to just do soundscapes i think is quite pretentious. Vai claimed fripp could mop the floor with both of them, i would love to see that, and im sure so would the guys who paid £20 for their ticket would aswell.”

Now nearly 14 years after first being heard in Florida this music finds an altogether different audience.

As was the custom on his previous outing with the G3 tours, Fripp began ‘scaping a good half before the punters began to arrive. The result is a slowly developing piece that encompasses the romantic idyls of Acceptance Affirming, the creepy dream sequences of Space Piano and it’s close cousin, Space Music II, which drifts enigmatically as vibraphone sounds tumbling into the depths, and swells of pensive strings rise, fall and slowly slide away. The concluding Requiem Affirming may be sombre in tone but is brimming with that yearning sense of longing;a slow-burning passion that makes these solo performances so special.

Space, in all senses of the word, is very much the place where Robert found himself at this concert. Just three days after this concert the G3 tour came to an end in South Carolina. From there, Fripp met up with Trey Gunn and Adrian Belew in Nashville and began work on what would become Space Groove by ProjeKct 2 - the very first step in the ProjeKcts series.
Sunrise Musical Theatre Miami United States

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TRACK
TIME
01
Vector Threshold
01:37
02
Acceptance Affirming
11:25
03
Hover
02:57
04
Space Music I
15:11
05
Bell Threshold
01:18
06
Space Music II
17:03
07
Space Piano
06:41
08
Requiem Affirming
16:08
Written by Simon Calkin
Quite what the punters at these gigs made of this I can’t imagine. Those expecting hundreds of notes per minute might have had a problem with this material. Listening to it now, I find it absorbing. I find it impossible not to actively listen to these soundscapes. Having these play whilst doing other things makes the "other things" rapidly to be abandoned in favour of sitting and listening. Quite remarkable music. Highly recommended, to say the least.
Written by George Ross
Pianoscapes and smaller details
This is a wonderful-sounding recording of a performance from a very experimental period in soundscapes. With its sparser tones and a prominence of piano synth notes, it’s a rather stark, minimalist, but still wonderfully moody set. It’s really less about grand sweeps and more about finer details this time - a joy for active listening. In general, this set has only a passing similarity to other available soundscapes from the G3 touring of ’97, so by all means it is a very worthwhile purchas...
Written by Michael Coffey
Lovely
I have downloaded quite a few soundscapes and i think this one is quite lovely, sort of a quiet space inbetween the churchscapes, the darker soundscapes earlier in the 1990s and even a little of the guitar timbre of no pussy footing. I prefer the long notes to the bell/piano notes.
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