Discipline (album)
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EG Records Warner Bros. Records Polydor |
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7th |
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38:13 |
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King Crimson , Rhett Davies |
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Discipline is the eighth studio album by the British rock band King Crimson from 1981 and the first of three albums the band recorded after their reunion in the 1980s.
Emergence
After King Crimson broke up, Robert Fripp devoted himself to working with other musicians, including Brian Eno , and together with him developed the tape effects known as Frippertronics . There were two albums, Exposure and God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners , on which he worked with Brian Eno and David Byrne . In 1980 he finally founded the band The League of Gentlemen , which was based on the emerging New Wave style. The appearances with the League of Gentlemen inspired Fripp to reactivate King Crimson. In the same year he made contact with the former King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford . Guitarist and singer Adrian Belew and bassist Tony Levin were recruited as additional musicians . In this line-up, the band performed under the name Discipline for a while , until they finally renamed themselves to King Crimson.
Style and reception
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By doing without wind instruments and mellotrons, which gave earlier King Crimson albums their style, the rather minimalist, New Wave-oriented sound of this album is perceived as comparatively dry. The album is dominated by Robert Fripps and Adrian Belew's guitar playing, who play the fast runs typical of the album in the high tone regions. In the experimental pieces Frame by Frame and Thela Hun Ginjeet , the passages are offset polymetrically . At Robert Fripp's request, the drummer Bruford almost never plays the cymbals, so that the high frequencies in the sound are reserved for the guitars and occasionally Belew's paranoid vocals. The texts written by him deal with social and interpersonal problems such as violence ( Thela Hun Ginjeet ) and complain, among other things, of the futility of human communication ( Elephant Talk ).
Track list
All compositions are by Adrian Belew , Bill Bruford , Robert Fripp and Tony Levin .
- page 1
- 1. Elephant Talk - 4:43
- 2. Frame By Frame - 5:09
- 3. Matte Kudasai - 3:47
- 4. Indiscipline - 4:33
- Page 2
- 5. Thela Hun Ginjeet - 6:26
- 6. The Sheltering Sky - 8:22 am
- 7th Discipline - 5:13
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Fripp biography on Encyclopedia.com, accessed February 8, 2010.
- ^ Progarchives.com: Discipline review , accessed February 8, 2010.
- ↑ Review by Greg Prato on Allmusic (accessed November 15, 2018)
- ↑ Review by John Piccarella on Rolling Stone (archived) (accessed November 15, 2018)
- ↑ Thorsten Gürntke: Review of "Discipline". March 23, 2009, accessed February 8, 2010 .
- ^ Greg Prato, Review of "Discipline". Retrieved February 8, 2010 .
Web links
- Reviews of Discipline on the Babyblauen Seiten
- Discipline at Allmusic (English)