King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
1. The Great Deceiver
2. Lament
3. We'll Let You Know
4. The Night Watch
5. Trio
6. The Mincer
7. Starless And Bible Black
8. Fracture
Starless and Bible Black, the King Crimson album named after one of the opening lines of Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood. King Crimson, if you weren't aware, are an English progressive rock band started sometime in the seventies. The King of King Crimson, Robert Fripp, is also El Presidente of the League of Crafty Guitarists, members of whom he refers to as 'Disciplined Mobile Units'. I heard that he also whips them from time to time.
If you don't feel like you've stepped off this planet into some twisted children's storybook yet, it is clear that you have not listened to Starless and Bible Black and I urge you to download it now. There's some amazing guitar work for you to discover! The lyrics stumble from surreal to poetic but they always, always feel very art noveau. In The Night Watch, particularly, it all comes together in this amazing, amazingly amazing, wonderful beautiful tribute to Rembrandt's painting of the same name. The sense of time that they convey, the chilling melancholy of the pentatonic tones, the guitars that sound like an electric orchestra... it's all very, very good.
Oh and I do have to say something about Fracture as well. Recently, I attended an art exhibition where one of the works was a wall full of sketches, photographs and text regarding a single subject. I really enjoyed the work even though it was dull, because I like the idea of extrapolating so much from one thing, like a raga. Fracture explores this also, running over many different melodies extracted from a single theme but does so in a way quite like the work, in a disjointed, sketchy manner. I really do enjoy it! And there's also someone whooping in the background of the song so I think he enjoys it too!
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black (mediafire)
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