King Crimson
Red (CD + DVD)
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* This release comes in a 2×digipack format in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by Robert Fripp & King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos and archive material. * One of the most powerful and influential albums in the band's remarkable career. King Crimson fell apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walked 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 Crimson 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.
Format
CD content:
1. Original Album
2. Bonus tracks - notes:
CD-8 mixed by Robert Fripp, Tony Arnold and David Singleton
CD-6 & 7 Previously unreleased: mixed and produced by Steven Wilson
DVD content:
1. Original album and bonus tracks in MLP Lossless Stereo (24/96) and PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/48)
2. Original album and bonus tracks in MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround* and DTS 5.1 Digital Surround
3. Video content originally broadcast by ORTF, France, March 22nd 1974, copyright Ina.
Issued under exclusive license
℗ 2009
This release comes in a 2×digipack format in a slipcase with new sleeve notes by Robert Fripp & King Crimson biographer Sid Smith along with rare photos and archive material.
The original album was released 1974.
CD-1 to CD-3, CD-6, CD-7, DVD-1 to DVD-3, DVD-6, DVD-7 Copyright Control / Universal Music Ltd
CD-4, DVD-4 Warner-Chapell Music Ltd / Universal Music Ltd
CD-5, DVD-5 Imagem Songs Ltd / Universal Music Ltd
℗ & © 2004 Robert Fripp
CD-8, DVD-8 to DVD-9 Copyright Control / Universal Music Ltd
℗ & © 2007 Robert Fripp
Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, July and August 1974
Stereo files mastered at Super Audio Mastering.
5.1 mastered at Opus Productions Ltd.
DVD Design & Layout at Opus Productions Ltd.
DVD Authoring at Opus Productions.
Tape transfers at the FX Copy Room London.
Compiled & Coordinated for DGM.
Released via Inner Knot (USA/Canada), WHD (Japan), Panegyric (rest of World)
℗ & © Robert Fripp
This compilation ℗ & © 2009 Robert Fripp
CD bonus tracks timings not on release
Release notes
This is the US release, where Inner Knot replaces Panegyric on the CD art. CD content: 1. Original Album 2. Bonus tracks - notes: CD-8 mixed by Robert Fripp, Tony Arnold and David Singleton CD-6 & 7 Previously unreleased: mixed and produced by Steven Wilson DVD content: 1. Original album and bonus tracks in MLP Lossless Stereo (24/96) and PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/48) 2. Original album and bonus tracks in MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround* and DTS 5.1 Digital Surround 3. Video content originally broadcast…
| Original Album | |||
| CD-1 | Red | 6:16 | |
| CD-2 | Fallen Angel | 6:03 | |
| CD-3 | One More Red Nightmare | 7:09 | |
| CD-4 | Providence | 8:10 | |
| CD-5 | Starless | 12:26 | |
| Bonus Tracks | |||
| CD-6 | Red Trio Version | 6:27 | |
| CD-7 | Fallen Angel Trio Version (Instrumental) | 6:26 | |
| CD-8 | Providence Full Version (Taken From 'The Great Deceiver') | 10:08 | |
| Original Album [MLP Lossless Stereo (24/96) / PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/48)] | |||
| DVD-1 | Red | 6:18 | |
| DVD-2 | Fallen Angel | 6:02 | |
| DVD-3 | One More Red Nightmare | 7:11 | |
| DVD-4 | Providence | 8:09 | |
| DVD-5 | Starless | 12:25 | |
| Bonus Tracks [MLP Lossless Stereo (24/96) / PCM Stereo 2.0 (24/48)] | |||
| DVD-6 | Red Trio Version | 6:27 | |
| DVD-7 | Fallen Angel Trio Version (Instrumental) | 6:26 | |
| DVD-8 | Providence Full Version (Taken From 'The Great Deceiver') | 10:04 | |
| DVD-9 | A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos (Taken From 'The Great Deceiver') | 16:50 | |
| Original Album [MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround / DTS 5.1 Digital Surround] | |||
| DVD-10 | Red | ||
| DVD-11 | Fallen Angel | ||
| DVD-12 | One More Red Nightmare | ||
| DVD-13 | Providence | ||
| DVD-14 | Starless | ||
| Bonus Tracks [MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround / DTS 5.1 Digital Surround] | |||
| DVD-15 | Fallen Angel Trio Version (Instrumental) | ||
| DVD-16 | Providence Full Version (Taken From 'The Great Deceiver') | ||
| DVD-17 | A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos (Taken From 'The Great Deceiver') | ||
| Video Content (Audio: Mono) | |||
| Video 1 | Lark's Tongues In Aspic: Part II | ||
| Video 2 | The Night Watch | ||
| Video 3 | Lament | ||
| Video 4 | Starless | ||
- Ian McDonald
- Alto Saxophone
- John Wetton
- Bass, Voice
- Declan Colgan
- Compiled By, Coordinator [Coordinated By]
- Marc Charig
- Cornet
- John Kosh
- Cover
- Claire Bidwell
- Design [Dvd Design], Layout
- Hugh O'Donnell
- Design [Package Art]
- William Bruford
- Drums [Percussives]
- George Chkiantz
- Engineer
- Rod Thear
- Engineer [Assistant]
- Chris
- Equipment [Equipment By]
- Harvey
- Equipment [Equipment By]
- Peter Walmsley
- Equipment [Equipment By]
- Tex
- Equipment [Equipment By]
- Robert Fripp
- Executive-Producer [2009 New Stereo Mix], Executive-Producer [5.1 Tracks], Guitar, Mellotron, Liner Notes [Red, Thursday, 23rd. April 2009], Mixed By [2009 New Stereo Mix], Producer [2009 New Stereo Mix]
- Sid Smith
- Liner Notes
- Neil Wilkes
- Mastered By [5.1 Tracks], Authoring [DVD Authoring]
- Joe Gilder
- Mastered By [Assistant - Stereo Files]
- Simon Heyworth
- Mastered By [Stereo Files]
- Steven Wilson
- Mixed By [5.1 Multichannel], Mixed By, Producer (CD-6 to CD-7, DVD-1 to DVD-17)
- Robin Miller
- Oboe
- Bob Romano
- Other [DVD QC Testing]
- Bob Squires
- Other [DVD QC Testing]
- Jon Urban
- Other [DVD QC Testing]
- Patrick Cleasby
- Other [DVD QC Testing]
- Gered Mankowitz
- Photography By
- King Crimson
- Producer
- Alex R. Mundy
- Research [DGM Tape Archive]
- Mel Collins
- Soprano Saxophone
- Kevin Vanbergen
- Technician [Multitrack Tape Restoration And Transfers]
- David Cross
- Violin
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