I watched clips yesterday of Toyah Wilcox and Robert Fripp...[Kashmir Live]
The guitar works from Fripp in combination with Wilcox's powerful vocal and alluring stage presence are sublime.

Historia de la música electrónica popular: 1977: Bowie y Joe el León https://historiadelamusicaelectronicapopular.blogspot.com/2025/03/1977-bowie-y-joe-el-leon.html #Bowie #Bowieforever #DavidBowie #RobertFripp #BrianEno Joe The Lion ("Heroes" - 1977)

Historia de la música electrónica popular: 1977: La bella, la bestia y David Bowie https://historiadelamusicaelectronicapopular.blogspot.com/2025/03/1977-la-bella-la-bestia-y-david-bowie.html #Bowie #DavidBowie #BowieForever #BrianEno #RobertFripp Beauty and the Beast (single) - "Heroes"(album) - 1977

#MorningCoffeeAlbum with chocolate and sea salt cookies!

In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson

Said by some to have begun the prog rock phenomenon (although Pink Floyd and The Nice might have something to say about that), this is certainly one of the most influential albums of that genre. The first track, 21st Century Schizoid Man (which surely influenced Black Sabbath) was sampled by Kanye West in the track Power.

« In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. »

— Robert Fripp

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736006450832408576/in-strange-and-uncertain-times-such-as-those-we

What if Kevin Shields got really, *REALLY* into Frippertronics? That's the gist of Kurt Leege's Title Pools album, which combines shoegaze guitar tones with Frippesque looping compositions. Read more here:

https://www.etherdiver.com/2024/11/22/opm-electronic-music-everywhere/#KurtLeege

« There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake. »

— Guitar Craft Aphorisms

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/740446954357653504/there-are-no-mistakes-save-one-the-failure-to

"It was the first true progressive rock album, from one of the UK’s most cutting-edge bands of the era. We talked to members of the original 1969 line-up of about the making of the ground-breaking In The Court Of The Crimson King: An Observation By King Crimson."

Behind the scenes at the recording of King Crimson's trailblazing In The Court Of The Crimson King: https://www.loudersound.com/features/king-crimson-in-the-court-of-the-crimson-king-recording

« In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse. »

— Robert Fripp

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/736006450832408576/in-strange-and-uncertain-times-such-as-those-we

« One key to personal freedom: the extent to which we accept responsibility for exercising our rights and meeting our obligations. »

― Guitar Craft Aphorisms

· https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/726586137036128256/one-key-to-personal-freedom-the-extent-to-which

Friday Night Jukebox for songs that are musical collaborations, teams, teamwork, solidarity and all that jazz. Cool!

Robert Fripp & David Sylvian, "Darshan (The Road To Graceland)" (1993)

Seventeen minutes from a collaborative album proposed by Sylvian in reaction to an invitation to join King Crimson: a combination of the tightly arranged and the loosely improvised.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmnzGofzz3Y

[This guest post was written by @wlukewindsor about number 971 on The List. The album was also submitted by wlukewindsor.]

I bought my copy of Exposure in the mid-80s, if I remember right, on black disc, and from a physical record shop. I can’t remember why it called to me (I bought it without having heard any of it) but I knew Fripp’s work pretty well as a contributor to David Bowie’s post-Berlin material, Peter Gabriel’s solo albums, and some of his other work as a band-leader and solo artist. I was present in my early teens at one of the first King Crimson Discipline gigs in Poole, and of course Fripp was a local hero (I grew up in Bournemouth). I remember being particularly taken by his work on Bowie’s Scary Monsters (and the resultant screaming).

But Exposure is different. It really shouldn’t work as an album given the at first seemingly random curation of alternate takes, unreleased material, and other ‘could be commercial’ odds-and-ends. But it does, in a way that some of Fripp’s more single-minded projects don’t: watching that recent documentary about King Crimson was a powerful reminder of how solipsistic Fripp’s musical worlds can be, and Exposure has an eclectic charm which captivated me from the first listen. It also contains some fine work by the vocal contributors (especially the less well-known Terre Roche), and the recontextualisation of Here Comes the Flood (including creaky chair) in a stripped-down version surrounded by Frippertronics and apocalyptic musings of his favourite esoteric philosophers is one of the best things I’ve ever heard. There’s even Darryl Hall (and there would have been more if not for industry woes)! And Peter Hammill (who normally grates but is wonderful here singing Joanna Walton’s lyrics). I don’t truck with completism so I’m not going to reference the many versions of this album – I’m stuck in 1979 as I think it’s just good as it is and don’t want to spoil its perfection although I am kind of intrigued to hear more of the songs as originally sung by Hall: as I write this I’m listening to Sacred Songs (which was recorded first but released afterwards and has some familiar moments).

If I have a favourite track (and really it’s best in context) it’s NY3: I’ve never enjoyed an argument so much. I’ll leave the other tracks up to you…

I’ll give Fripp the last word:

“Musical elation is my only consolation”.

You Burn Me Up I’m a Cigarette

Luke Windsor
Manchester, England
April 7-10, 2024

• Songwhip: Robert Fripp – Exposure
• Discogs: Robert Fripp – Exposure

[Alt text for accompanying image: A photo of a black vinyl copy of Robert Fripp’s Exposure playing on a black turntable. The album cover sits beside the turntable. The album artwork is a stylized photo of the artist, wearing a black suit and tie, with a striped shirt. A close-up photo of an eye is in the background, tinted blue. The artist and album name are in black font in the top left corner.]

https://1001otheralbums.com/2024/04/16/robert-fripp-exposure-1979-uk/

Per una estona he estat pensant que algú amb molt de temps lliure havia fet un muntatge amb IA creuant els conceptes "Robert Fripp" & "Kinky Guitar Sex". Però resulta que és de veritat
https://mastodon.social/@TheMetalDog/112196490459390113
#RobertFripp #KinkyGuitarSex #KingCrimson #Fetishism #GuitarPorn

This blew my mind. The first episode of Live From Daryl's House I've seen, and it was released yesterday, with the musical guest being Robert Fripp. If you've only got time for one segment, I urge you to watch them play Red. Holy shit guys...

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLINSQGXREtvdnvCfLXTt0GmE8Oz_8s2tQ&si=6-GNYVssj8bWFbGh

Atlantic Records trade ad and tour promo for King Crimson's album "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (1973)
"…England has produced a new music organization whose music speaks honesty, commitment, and change."

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