Last decades have seen a few KING CRIMSON tribute ensembles roaming international scene, including such notable collective as THE CRIMSON PROJEkcT which featured no less than four members of the parent group’s various line-ups. However, there used to be another formation which not only comprised four musicians from Robert Fripp’s team’s early variants but also one who would go to front the combo in their later years. Recently fans could enjoy a couple of that formation, 21st CENTURY SCHIZOID BAND‘s releases, preserved for posterity in Tokyo, Forli and New York, yet while those were reissues of the veterans’ “Official Bootleg” series, what will be out November 22nd doesn’t seem to have appeared previously.
Titled “Live In Barcelona” and dating back to 2003, this rather familiar array of classic pieces, augmented by a couple of cuts from the players’ solo albums, were delivered by Jakko Jakszyk, Mel Collins, Ian McDonald, Peter Giles and Ian Wallace. As two of them are no longer with is, it’s a poignant, if vigorous document, of a fine performance.
1. Schizoid Intro
2. A Man A City
3. Cat Food
4. Let There Be Light
5. Cirkus
6. Spend Us Three
7. Cadence And Cascade
8. In The Court Of The Crimson King
9. Ladies Of The Road
10. Catley’s Ashes
11. Formentera Lady
12. Sailor’s Tale
13. I Talk To The Wind
14. Epitaph
15. 21st Century Schizoid Man
16. Starless