Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the Prog Rock band's classic 1974 album, released to coincide with King Crimson's 40th anniversary. The CD features three extra tracks (two previously unreleased) including pre-overdub mixes of the title track and 'Fallen Angel', which illustrate perfectly why the album has been such an enduring influence. Presented as digipak in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by Robert Fripp and King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos and archive material.
King Crimson fall apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walks away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noiser overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past — Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might've sounded like handling the later group's repertory (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimsonmore… album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement. Indeed, Red does improve in some respects on certain aspects of the previous album — including "Starless," a cousin to the prior album's title track — and only the lower quality of the vocal compositions keeps this from being as strongly recommended as its two predecessors. Red was reissued on CD in the summer of 2000 in a remastered edition that features killer sound and an excellent booklet, containing a good account of the circumstances surrounding the recording of this album...B. Eder
King Crimson - Red (1974) (8-track 40th Anniversary Series 2009)
Codec: flac
Size ca.: 384 MB
Genre : Progressive Rock
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Line-Up:
- Bill Bruford / drums
- Robert Fripp / guitars
- John Wetton / bass, vocals
Tracklist:
01 Red 6:16
02 Fallen Angel 6:03
03 One More Red Nightmare 7:09
04 Providence 8:10
05 Starless 12:26
06 Red prev. unreleased / Bonus / Trio Version 6:27
07 Fallen Angel prev. unreleased / Bonus / Trio Version / Instrumental 6:26
08 Providence Bonus / Full Version 10:08
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Nobody knows what winrar done with track 7.
Post je objavljen 12.01.2010. u 18:15 sati.