In the Wake of Poseidon
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Atlantic Records Island Records |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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40:56 |
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Wessex Sound Studios, London |
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In the Wake of Poseidon is the second studio album by British rock band King Crimson and was released in May 1970. At the time of its appearance, the band had already changed their occupation, in the Wake of Poseidon is the first album in the Court of the Crimson King but stylistically quite similar.
music
The music changes again and again between rather gentle, ballad-like passages or pieces and fast, energetic and complex ones of high intensity. The musical theme of Peace is dealt with in three parts (at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of the album) and thus forms a framework for the other pieces. The longest number, “The Devil's Triangle” , is based heavily on the first movement “Mars, the Warbringer” from the orchestral suite “ The Planets ” by the English composer Gustav Holst , which he composed from 1914 to 1916. King Crimson named the piece "Mars" on a live tour in 1969 , but the use of this title was prohibited by the composer's legal representatives. In 1971 a short excerpt from The Devil's Triangle was used on the BBC television series Doctor Who .
Track list
- 1. Peace - A Beginning ( Fripp , Sinfield ) - 0:49
- 2. Pictures of a City (Fripp, Sinfield) - 8:03
- 42nd at Treadmill
- 3. Cadence and Cascade (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:27
- 4. In the Wake of Poseidon (Fripp, Sinfield) - 7:56
- Libra's theme
- Page 2
- 5. Peace - A Theme (Fripp) - 1:15
- 6. Cat Food (Fripp, Sinfield, McDonald) - 4:54
- 7. The Devil's Triangle (Fripp, McDonald) - 11:39
- Merday Morn
- Hand of Sceiron
- Garden of Worm
- 8. Peace - An End (Fripp, Sinfield) - 1:53
Cover
The two unlabeled outer sides of the fold-out cover of the record sleeve each show six images of faces from the painting series “The Twelve Faces of Humankind” by Tammo de Jongh, combined into a single painting.
reception
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In the Wake of Poseidon was received positively, but did not achieve the exuberant response as its predecessor and is not one of King Crimson's outstanding albums.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the Wake of Poseidon on Allmusic
- ↑ Cover images on Discogs
- ↑ Cover image on Flickr
- ↑ Review by Bruce Eder on Allmusic (accessed November 15, 2018)
- ↑ Mike Barnes: König im Wahn, in: Rolling Stone 09/2016, Issue 263, pp. 57-61.
- ↑ Ryan Reed: Revisiting King Crimson's Turmoil-Filled Second LP, 'In the Wake of Poseidon' on UltimateClassicRock (accessed November 15, 2018)
Web links
- Reviews of In the Wake of Poseidon on the Babyblauen Seiten
- In the Wake of Poseidon at Allmusic (English)
- The Twelve Faces of Humankind ( November 30, 2010 memento in the Internet Archive ) - the 12 paintings used on the cover