THRaKaTTaK, by King Crimson (1996): How can you possibly not like an album with a song titled "Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip"? If the song titles appear to have been given more creative energy than the tunes, that's how. On Crimson's tour supporting the album THRAK, the band engaged on nightly improvs, using the title track as a jumping off point. Sometimes more than once per night. A couple of years later, Fripp & crew got the bright idea to take several of these improvs and stitch them together between "THRAK" bookends to produce this album. What's in between is not for the faint of heart or, to be honest, all that interesting to my ears.
Monday, June 04, 2007
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