"How do you keep track of this? How do remember this to perform it?" Trey Gunn, who plays Warr guitar on this song, described his tenure with King Crimson as: “...a little bit like having a low-grade infection. You're not really sick but you don't feel well, either.”
Watching someone get blown away by King Crimson is no surprise to me at all. They’ve blown me away for 50 years and continue to blow me away today! Great reaction!
always a band of amazing, creative players, this line-up is the most technically proficient, in my opinion. incredible composition. watch the live in japan '03 vid of this song. completely remarkable...
@@green6string434 literally the Same. The second Night of our Oakland Fox Theater Concert, also us on Shrooms. My Bestie, after having his Bucket List of hoped King Crimson Songs, played, went missing for the Second Half. I found him at the Mezzanine, drenched with Sweet. He had a Heart Attack, and then another while being revived. Yes, he and I recount that Concert and to its,...In- betweens of Happenings.
@@progperljungman8218 I saw them at the old, shabby and seldom used Modjeska theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, formerly a 1920’s movie palace. Twenty years later it is still awaiting restoration.
Watching this guy with a new, really challenging, puzzle to solve is really amusing 😊 (Especially since he seems to really enjoy the challenge) Cheers Bryan ❤️
You should contact Trey Gunn who played the Warr guitar on that track! I reckon he would be happy to help! He worked on the transcription in other KC songs!
I saw all (4) 2015-2021 King Crimson "Three-Headed" Drum Tours. The 2017 and 2021 Tours were of Incendiary Stagecraft. We the Audience, and the Band itself, went through Holy Rites. The Energy; Percussive, Precise, Subtle, Uber-Majestic, and EVERYONE, Teens to those in their 80's, in Movement, Possessed to the Muses then informing the Band.
Love this album. The Only time i've seen them live they had just released "The power to believe" and played some of these tunes live as well. Amazing and underrated line up.
Harmonically, in the Belew era, they often use a whole-tone scale for its floating, ambiguous nature, moving patterns around in whole notes or thirds in that scale (often with hocketing), then "resolve" to some adjacent chord - for a while :)
I knew it sounded familiar but I couldn't place it. I actually wrote and sang a whole tone melody for someone else's music just this month. I wouldn't say I hated it but there is nothing about whole tone that feels natural to me 😅 Which makes it perfect for the type of vibe and atmosphere that KC is creating in this song.
The ConstruKction of Light is the album most of their fans deem to be their worst. Yet still, it does so many things and still is so technical and nice to listen to. Many people had a problem with the electronic drumset at the time, which can sound a bit dull and sparse, but for those people I can highly recommend checking out their redo of this album "ReconstruKction of Light", which because they lost the original masters of the drumtrack Pat Mastelotto rerecorded all of them, this time on an actual drumset and it really does elevate the album from decent to great. ProsaKc Blues has the weird drumpause they only played live back then, FraKcture has a much more brutal breakdown in the middle and man... it does loose a bit of its atmosphere, (but the Reconstruction of Light release also includes the original mix and even the Projekcts album that came out at the time, on BluRay) Anyway, for all King Crimson fans I can only highly suggest their "Live in Mexico" BluRay and to watch live versions of their "ConstruKction of Light" tracks. Have a good day lol
I like the idea that ones innate attempt to grasp the basic rhythmic patterns is forced to be left by the way side, eventually, which leaves you to engage in a sort of no man's land; awash in the harmonic content. This is v interesting. Try Agent Fresco - Mono No Aware [live].
I never even tried to count all the odd time signatures in this song :). This album has a rather bad reputation, largely due to its "millennium dated" digital, heavily compressed and rather sterile production. However, the title track is absolutely brilliant. There are slightly better live recordings of ConstruKction of Light from the tour between 2014-2022. I saw the last edition of KC live 3 times. They demonstrated astonishing precision and concentration for three hours straight. It was an out-of-this-world experience, I had a hard time processing everything afterwards :). Fripp's brain doesn't work like everyone else's, totally unique.
fun fuct, "The ConstruKction Of Light" was poorly received by old fans, which was always strange to me...because this album contains all the best of KC
i dunno of you only take recommendations via patreon, but i definately can recommend you to look into the song perichoresis by the secret chiefs 3 it seems to settle into 7/4 sometimes but most of the time its a disorienting layering of different rhythms that results in unpredictable "hickups" where the music kinda stumbles over itself its quite interesting, i have never heard something similar
The confusion in analyzing is that the time signatures are multi dimensional. Fripp finds straight 4-4 boring so he instituted a concept of mixing multiple odd time signatures simultaneously in each stringed instrument which gives a fluidity of 4-4 with a brain strain. That’s before even talking about the music itself. KC are a unique challenge for the average listener and a classroom for musicians. Love all their projects from the beginning to the present.
You will find a live version from this 2003 Tokyo show, (I think much of the 'Power To Believe' album is taken from this show?) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jIl2Qtb0anc.html
Trey Gunn once quoted approvingly the comment that this album “is the map, not the treasure”. Personally I think there’s some really great music on this record, but Fripp’s tendency to treat lyrics as an afterthought has never been more obvious.
Some of Adrian Belew's most emotive guitar solos hiding in there, plus Fripp's apocalyptic break in Fracktured. Trey Gunn and Pat Mastellotto's work is sublime here. I think the E-drums and the overall production are what makes it disappointing - and that's the key word - it feels like the sonic potential of the compositions was not fully realised.
Look forward to this week. Frakctured from this album is the most difficult one to play. You need to watch the live version they did of it. Ridiculous guitar skills by him.
I don't count when I listen to complex music for the first time. Let it envelope you, even if you're confused. Then go back and I transcribe it if I need to!! (to fully understand it) You should listen to System by the band Brotherly. It has a very complex rhythm as well, going between 6/4 and slower triplet-based 4/4. Check it out!
What do you mean "I can't count"? It's dead easy: it's one two three f… no wait, one tw… one two th…, wait that's the one, two three… Okay it's one one one one one one one…
@@CriticalReactions Now that I think about it, listen to Liquid Tension Experiment's "Chris And Kevin's Excellent Adventure". There's something funny right around the middle. You can find it on their official channel. That would be a great band for you to analyse, by the way 😉
I really want to recommend The Locust, which I like to describe as alien prog grind core. It's pretty shot and intense songs, so I don't know if it's right for a full reaction video, but please do check them out in your free time. It's a blast once your ears get used to the abuse. As for an actual recommendation for this channel it's a good idea to revisit Sleepytime Gorilla Musuem with the current theme. Sleep is Wrong is a great choice. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XsNRxgzk4sQ.html
