Larks' Tongue In Aspic
That's right, I'm listening to another King Crimson album from the 70s. From 1973 to be precise. And why would I be listening to such an ancient album. Why do people still listen to Beethoven? Mozart? Bach?
Because the music still resonates, particularly when the opening piece, LTIA, Part One, at the 4 minute point goes from delicate vibraphone percussion by Jamie Muir to David Cross' violin riff to the flanger driven guitar of Robert Fripp's into full-blown metal madness back to violin back to metal and then...there's really no drift to get other than that of mind-blowing genius, and did I mention this opening track is over 13 minutes! Bo-nanza!
On the same album is a LTIA Part Two. Then in 1984 on the 'Three of a Perfect Pair' album there is a LTIA Part Three. Then in the year 2000 with the album, 'The ConstruKction of Light' came LTIA Part Four.
Will there be more LTIA parts? Who knows, not even Fripp would claim to know. But if the music presents itself to whatever variation of King Crimson is present at the time then perhaps there will be a part five. Some say that Level Five from the 'Power to Believe' is part five. I won't accept that.
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Because the music still resonates, particularly when the opening piece, LTIA, Part One, at the 4 minute point goes from delicate vibraphone percussion by Jamie Muir to David Cross' violin riff to the flanger driven guitar of Robert Fripp's into full-blown metal madness back to violin back to metal and then...there's really no drift to get other than that of mind-blowing genius, and did I mention this opening track is over 13 minutes! Bo-nanza!
On the same album is a LTIA Part Two. Then in 1984 on the 'Three of a Perfect Pair' album there is a LTIA Part Three. Then in the year 2000 with the album, 'The ConstruKction of Light' came LTIA Part Four.
Will there be more LTIA parts? Who knows, not even Fripp would claim to know. But if the music presents itself to whatever variation of King Crimson is present at the time then perhaps there will be a part five. Some say that Level Five from the 'Power to Believe' is part five. I won't accept that.
la la la la la
posted by ArnieHoffman | 1:18 p.m.
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