KING CRIMSON Add Unissued Audio To The Release Of Their Film

The appearance of KING CRIMSON documentary – the Toby Amies-directed film “In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson at 50” – became a major event, and not only because the band are still, more than five decades after its inception, immensely popular, but also because self-reflection inherent in Robert Fripp’s diaries and public missive has never been expressed in visual means. All the video offering from the ensemble were limited to concert footage – until now. Yet this group wouldn’t be faithful to their own methods if the physical issue of the movie was limited to its theatrical cut, expanded or otherwise, and December 2nd is the date when it will be out as a regular Blu-Ray/DVD edition (to see the light of day earlier, on November 11th) as well as a box set comprised of two Blu-Ray discs, two DVDs and four CDs with quite a lot of new-to-the-medium material.

The set will surely create an additional fresh narrative for the familiar music – and its contents look like this (read the review):

Blu-ray 1 / DVD 1:
⦁ In The Court Of The Crimson King – King Crimson at 50 (a film by Toby Amies)
⦁ Excerpts From CosmiKc F*Kc – a 23-minute edit from the early version of the film
⦁ Starless – The Final Performance – Live at Bunkamura, Tokyo, December 8, 2021
⦁ Trailers and Additional Short Films
⦁ Schizophonia
⦁ Widows
⦁ Raindance
⦁ Official Trailer

In The Court Of The Crimson King:
King Crimson at 50

Blu-ray 2 / DVD 2:
Tring: Live In The Studio
1. Radical Action Suite
2. The Letters
3. Sailor’s Tale
4. Cadence And Cascade
5. Fracture
6. Starless
7. Discipline
Rock In Rio:
1. Drumzilla
2. Neurotica
3. Red
4. The Court Of The Crimson King
5. Indiscipline
6. Epitaph
7. 21st Century Schizoid Man
8. Gentlemen Of The Road
A 38 minutes short film: Backstage with King Crimson

CD1:
1. Introductory Bellscape – Live 06-07/11/18 *
2. 21st Century Schizoid Man – edit – mixed by Steven Wilson, 2019
3. Moonchild (including cadenzas) – Live in Philadelphia, 23/09/19 **
4. Cat Food – from Cat Food EP – alt. mix by David Singleton
5. Lizard:
i Prince Rupert Awakes – Wessex Studios, 1970, Keith Tippett on piano
ii Bolero iii Dawn Song iv Last Skirmish v Prince Rupert’s Lament – Live in Rome 23/07/18 * [exc I, prev. rel]
6. The Letters – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
7. Sailor’s Tale – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
8. Easy Money – Live in Oakland 05/09/19 **
9. Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part Two – alt. mix by Steven Wilson, 2012

CD2:
1. Fracture – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
2. Fallen Angel – 2009 remaster by Robert Fripp & Simon Heyworth
3. Discipline – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
4. Cadence And Cascade – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
5. The ConstruKction Of Light – Live In Nijmegen, 22/06/19 **
6. Peace – Live in Vienna 01/12/16
7. Matte Kudasai – alt. intro – Island Studios, 1981
8. The Mincer – Live in Zurich, 1973, completed at Air Studios, 1974
9. A Scarcity Of Miracles – Live in Japan 2015
10. Radical Action Suite – Live in the studio, Tring, 2018 *
11. Peace A Theme – mixed by Steven Wilson, 2022 *

CD3:
1. Drumzilla – Live in Los Angeles 06/08/21 *
2. Waiting Man – Live in Frejus 27/08/82
3. Seizure – Live in San Francisco, 01/11/98
4. The Talking Drum – alt. mix by Steven Wilson, 2012
5. Indiscipline – Live in Del Ray Beach 23/07/21 **
6. Exposure – Mixed by Steven Wilson, 2021
7. VROOOM – Live in Toronto 20/11/15
8. Coda: Marine 475 – Live in London 01/07/96
9. Darts – 2022 remaster by Marian Hafenstein at Possible Studios, Berlin **
10. Requiem – Extended version – mixed by Steven Wilson, 2013

CD4:
1. Walk On: Rio – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/19 *
2. Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part One – Live in Stuttgart 16/06/19 ***
3. Breathless – Live in Poland 2018
4. One More Red Nightmare – Live in Sandy 03/08/21 ***
5. Epitaph – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/20 *
6. Frame By Frame – Live in Nashville 27/09/19 ***
7. Pictures Of A City – Live in Osaka 02/12/21 ***
8. Red – Live in St. Augustine 24/07/21 ***
9. The Court Of The Crimson King – Live in Rio de Janeiro 06/10/21 *
10. Starless – Live in Tokyo 08/12/21 *

* previously unreleased
** previously available via download at DGM Live/Cassette only release
*** previously available in a different mix/master at DGM Live

October 8, 2022

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