King Crimson - Eyes Wide Open (2009) [Repost]

King Crimson is a progressive rock band. Originally founded in London in 1968 by a group of musicians from western England (but featuring a transatlantic lineup from 1981 onwards), the band is widely recognised as a foundational progressive rock group despite the band's own resistance to the label. The band has incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during its history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, New Wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass).

This set contains 2 DVDs featuring 2 different shows, one from April 2003 and another from July 2000. With the present line up of Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn, and Pat Mastelotto, King Crimson’s music which has evolved in many styles while maintaining the basic ingredients especially with the guitar style of Robert Fripp - the only band member that has never left the band. Some of their musical ventures challenged traditional of prog music. King Crimson has been known as centered around the musical virtuosity of Robert Fripp. Well, many will point to longtime guitarist/vocalist Adrian Belew as one of the pivotal components to what makes King Crimson what they are today. One could say that Adrian is the rock star figure that Fripp initially might not project. With his long tenure in prog arena, even some people say that King Crimson was the founding father of prog music (as we knew it), the band still maintains its existence through offering different styles but maintaining the core music (I guess is the Frippian guitar that has long characterized the band’s music).

Tracklist DVD1
1. Introductory Soundscape
2. The Power To Believe I: (A Cappella)
3. Level Five
4. ProzaKc Blues
5. The ConstruKction of Light
6. Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
7. Elecktrik
8. One Time
9. Facts Of Life
10. The Power To Believe II (Power Circle)
11. Dangerous Curves
12. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part IV
13. The Deception Of The Thursh
14. The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum

Special Features "Tokyo Sound & Camera Check"
- Indiscretion I
- Indiscretion II
- Indiscretion III





Tracklist DVD2
1. Into The Frying Pan
2. The Construktion of Light
3. VROOOM
4. One Time
5. London Improv 1: Blasticus SS Blastica
6. Dinosaur
7. The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
8. London Improv 2: C Blasticum Cage
9. ProzaKc Blues
10. Larks' Tongues In Aspic : Part IV
11. Three Of A Perfect Pair
12. The Deception Of The Thursh
13. Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream
14. Heroes

Special Features "Improvising Crimson"
- London Improvisation 1
- London Improvisation 2
- Barcelona Improvisation 1
- Barcelona Improvisation 2
- San Sebastian Improvisation
- Rome Improvisation 1
- Rome Improvisation 2
- Conegliano Improvisation
- Copenhagen Improvisation
- Deception of Thrush: London/San Sebastian/Paris





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