Live in Toronto

by King Crimson

Live in Toronto cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 March 2016
  • Label: DGM
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 2:06:54
  • Community rating: 4.03/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Biff Blumfumgagnge, Jakko M. Jakszyk, Jason Birnie, Mel Collins, Tony Levin, Mark Vreeken, Robert Fripp, Gavin Harrison, William Rieflin, Pat Mastelotto, Michele Russotto, John Armitage

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Documenting the highly acclaimed 'Seven-Headed Beast' incarnation of the legendary prog ensemble, this performance was captured flawlessly at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The unique triple-drummer setup radically reimagines foundational classics from their catalog, demonstrating a staggering level of polyrhythmic precision and renewed metallic energy.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, maximalist, uncommon-time-signatures, rhythmic, polyrhythm

Tracklist

  1. Threshold Soundscape (4:00)
  2. Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part One (10:29)
  3. Pictures of a City (8:32)
  4. VROOOM (5:14)
  5. Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind) (3:25)
  6. Meltdown (4:52)
  7. The Hell Hounds of Krim (3:30)
  8. The ConstruKction of Light (6:43)
  9. Red (6:46)
  10. Epitaph (9:10)
  11. Banshee Legs Bell Hassle (1:36)
  12. Easy Money (8:33)
  13. Level Five (7:06)
  14. The Letters (5:37)
  15. Sailor's Tale (6:30)
  16. Starless (15:47)
  17. The Court of the Crimson King (7:12)
  18. 21st Century Schizoid Man (11:44)

Credits

  • King Crimson - primary artist
  • Alex R. Mundy - assemblage [digital assembly]
  • Ben Singleton - cover [cover image], logo ["elements" logos]
  • Gavin Harrison - drums, written-by, drums (drum set)
  • Pat Mastelotto - drums, written-by, drums (drum set)
  • William Rieflin - drums, keyboards, written-by
  • Robert Fripp - guitar, keyboards, written-by, copyright, keyboard, phonographic copyright
  • Jakko M. Jakszyk - guitar, voice, written-by

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