Red (King Crimson Album)
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Island Records Atlantic Records |
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39:55 |
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Red is the seventh studio album by the British progressive rock band King Crimson . After the release of this album and a subsequent tour, Robert Fripp disbanded the band for the time being.
Emergence
In 1974, Robert Fripp was the last remaining founding member of King Crimson, which only existed as a trio (Fripp, Bill Bruford , John Wetton ) after violinist David Cross left . The psychedelic, largely harmonious sound of the first albums - with a few exceptions such as 21st Century Schizoid Man from the debut album - had already peaked on Iceland in 1971.
King Crimson, who had earned a reputation as an outstanding live band since their formation in 1969, began to transfer the energy of their live performances to their studio albums with the following album, Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973).
Red is the last album of this comparatively experimental phase of the band, which only came back together in 1981 with the New Wave- oriented album Discipline .
For the first time since leaving in 1969, Ian McDonald was also involved in this album .
Trivia
Starless , the last track, is named after a text by the poet Dylan Thomas , just like the previous album Starless and Bible Black .
Track list
Page A:
- 1. Red (Robert Fripp) - 6:16
- 2. Fallen Angel (John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James) - 5:58
- 3. One More Red Nightmare (Fripp, Wetton) - 7:07
Side B:
- 4. Providence (David Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bill Bruford) - 8:06
- 5. Starless (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Palmer-James) - 12:18
40th Anniversary Edition
- In 2009, as part of the 40th Anniversary Series, a box with an audio CD and a DVD-Audio was released . The audio CD contains the tracks from the original release and the bonus tracks Red Trio version , Fallen Angel Trio version instrumental and Providence Full version . The audio DVD contains all the titles on the audio CD plus the title A Voyage to the Center of the Cosmos in high-definition stereo format and in the multi-channel format DTS 5.1 or MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround. The DVD also contains a video of a radio recording made by the French ORTF on March 22, 1974 with the titles Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part II , The Night Watch , Lament and Starless .
reception
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In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album at number 15 of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .
Pitchfork Media ranks it 72nd in the top 100 albums of the 1970s.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Band biography on the baby blue pages
- ↑ Review of Starless and Bible Black on the Babyblauen Seiten
- ↑ Review by Bruce Eder on allmusic.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Sam Sodomsky on pitchfork.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
- ↑ Will Hermes: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - King Crimson, 'Red' (1974). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
- ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on pitchfork.com (accessed May 4, 2018)
Web links
- Red at Allmusic (English)
- Reviews of Red on the baby blue pages