Reassuring that visits deep into the past record collection aren’t revealing embarassing immature tastes. I say that because listening to Red by King Crimson today brought back the same hair-raising thrill that it did back in the mid 1980s, (Note- it was released in 1974). It’s down to Robert Fripp that there are harmonies and key changes that are orchestrated like "classical" music. I recall listening out for similar qualities in Mahler, or Schönberg. There is a jazzy feel in those harmonic instruments- clarinet, Sax and violin which can be heard amongst the thundering great bass guitar passages. they tap out oriental rhythms, cascades that echo the main themes and generally provide dynamic contrasts.
This album belongs in a trio with "Lark’s Tongues" and "Starless…"
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Bought for the Samuel Barber Agnus Dei; a version rather different to that performed by ExCathedra which I would still like when they re-release it.
74mins of uninterrupted birdsong, unsullied by man-made music.They’re going to take ages, possibly not ’till December, but I’ve ordered the following:
Dead And Lovely
She was a middle class girl
In over her head
She thought she would
Stand up in the deep end
He had a bullet proof smile
He had money to burn
She thought she had the moon
In her pocket…
But now she’s dead
She’s so dead forever
Dead and lovely now
I ‘ve always been told to
Remember this
Don’t let a fool kiss you
Never marry for love
He was hard to impress
He knew everyone’s secrets
He wore her on his arm
Just like jewelry
He never gave but he got
He kept her on a leash
He’s not the kind of wheel
You fall asleep at
But now she’s dead
She’s so dead
Forever dead and
Lovely now
Come closer look deep
You’ve fallen fast
Just like a plane on a
Stormy sea
She made up someone to be
She made up somewhere to
Be from
This is one business in the
World where that’s no
Problem at all
Every thing that is left
They will only plow under
Soon every one you know
Will be gone
But now she’s dead
She’s so dead
Forever dead and
Lovely now
I’ve always been told to
Remember this
Don’t let a kiss fool you
Never marry for love
Now they’re all watching
The sea
What’s lost can never be broken
Her roots were sweet
But they were shallow
But now she’s dead
She’s so dead
Forever dead and
Lovely now
Circus
S&MO Played first, most if not all, covers but played very slowly. A close delicate examination of well known tracks from Elvis, Depeche Mode, Joy Division and Prince amongst others. I only recognised some, the set finished early, or at least it seemed so. That means it was good by the way.
Again, like so often I was underwealmed by the sound system in the Glee Club. It didn’t hurt in the way that the Carling academy does, but still it had that hazy electric sound with interference and poor connections also noticable.
Micycle 