Live in Vienna, or Live in Vienna, December 1, 2016, is a triple-disc live album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, originally released in a limited capacity in Japan as Live in Vienna 2016 + Live in Tokyo 2015 on 27 September 2017.[1] The expanded album, just titled Live in Vienna, was released through Discipline Global Mobile on 6 April 2018.[2]
| Live in Vienna | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released |
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| Recorded | 1 December 2016 | |||
| Venue | Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 187:11 | |||
| Label | Discipline Global Mobile | |||
| Producer | King Crimson | |||
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Content
editLive in Vienna was recorded on 1 December 2016 at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.[3] The first two discs of Live in Vienna cover the entire first and second sets of the concert.[4] The third disc on the original Japanese release was a bonus disc featuring live tracks from King Crimson's 2015 tour of Japan.[5] On the main release, the third disc comprises one of the band's first performances of "Fracture" since 1974, two encores from the show in Vienna, and newly sequenced pieces with excerpts from Robert Fripp's soundscapes edited into them, in the style of THRaKaTTaK.[2]
Critical reception
edit| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| All About Jazz |   [1] |
Writing for All About Jazz, John Kelman praised the album, especially the third disc's version of "Fracture" and its live improvisations, which he called "a primary reason to consider Live in Vienna an essential listen."[1]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Walk On: Monk Morph Music of the Chamber" | Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin | 2:31 |
| 2. | "The Hell Hounds of Krim" | Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto, Bill Rieflin | 3:39 |
| 3. | "Pictures of a City" | Fripp, Peter Sinfield | 8:40 |
| 4. | "Lizard" (The Battle of Glass Tears – Part I: Dawn Song) | Fripp, Sinfield | 2:19 |
| 5. | "Suitable Ground for the Blues" | Jakko Jakszyk, Fripp | 4:46 |
| 6. | "VROOOM" | Adrian Belew, Fripp, Levin, Trey Gunn, Bill Bruford, Mastelotto | 5:13 |
| 7. | "The ConstruKction of Light" (Part I only) | Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn | 6:37 |
| 8. | "The Court of the Crimson King" | Ian McDonald, Sinfield | 7:18 |
| 9. | "The Letters" | Fripp, Sinfield | 6:14 |
| 10. | "Sailor's Tale" | Fripp | 6:18 |
| 11. | "Interlude" | Fripp, Collins, Levin | 2:45 |
| 12. | "Radical Action II" | Fripp | 2:15 |
| 13. | "Level Five" | Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn | 7:28 |
| Total length: | 66:03 | ||
| No. | Title | Writers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Fairy Dust of the Drumsons" | Harrison, Mastelotto, Jeremy Stacey | 1:42 |
| 2. | "Peace: An End" | Fripp, Sinfield | 1:54 |
| 3. | "Cirkus" | Fripp, Sinfield | 7:32 |
| 4. | "Indiscipline" | Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin | 8:50 |
| 5. | "Epitaph" | Greg Lake, McDonald, Michael Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | 8:47 |
| 6. | "Easy Money" | John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James, Fripp | 10:07 |
| 7. | "The Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row" | Harrison, Mastelotto, Rieflin | 3:03 |
| 8. | "Red" | Fripp | 6:41 |
| 9. | "Meltdown" | Jakszyk, Fripp | 4:16 |
| 10. | "Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Two" | Fripp | 7:00 |
| 11. | "Starless" | Bruford, David Cross, Wetton, Palmer-James, Fripp | 13:03 |
| Total length: | 72:55 | ||
| No. | Title | Writers | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "'Heroes'" | Brian Eno, David Bowie | 5:23 |
| 2. | "Fracture" | Fripp | 10:56 |
| 3. | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | 13:07 |
| 4. | "Schoenberg Softened His Hat" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, David Singleton | 11:45 |
| 5. | "Ahriman's Ceaseless Corruptions" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton | 6:04 |
| 6. | "Spenta's Counter Claim" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton | 0:58 |
| Total length: | 48:13 | ||
Notes
- "Fracture" was performed at Falconer Salen in Copenhagen, Denmark on 23 September 2016.
- "Schoenberg Softened His Hat" is sequenced from:
- Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, Italy, 5–6 November 2016.
- Auditorium Conciliazione in Rome, Italy, 11–12 November 2016.
- Teatro Verdi in Florence, Italy, 8 November 2016.
- "Ahriman's Ceaseless Corruptions" is sequenced from:
- "Spenta's Counter Claim" is sequenced from Stadsschouwburg in Antwerp, Belgium on 2 November 2016.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Recorded at | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Walk On: Soundscape" | Fripp | Tokyo, 7 December 2015 | 6:53 |
| 2. | "Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part One" | Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir | Tokyo, 7 December 2015 | 10:22 |
| 3. | "One More Red Nightmare" | Fripp, Wetton | Tokyo, 8 December 2015 | 6:15 |
| 4. | "A Scarcity of Miracles" | Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins | Tokyo, 9 December 2015 | 6:51 |
| 5. | "Banshee Legs Bell Hassle" | Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto | Tokyo, 10 December 2015 | 1:50 |
| 6. | "Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)" | Fripp | Osaka, 12 December 2015 | 3:19 |
| 7. | "Meltdown" | Fripp, Jakszyk | Osaka, 13 December 2015 | 4:22 |
| 8. | "Radical Action II" | Fripp | Tokyo, 16 December 2015 | 2:44 |
| 9. | "Peace - An End" (First two lines sung in Japanese) | Fripp, Sinfield | Tokyo, 17 December 2015 | 2:08 |
| 10. | "The Talking Drum" | Bruford, Cross, Muir, Wetton, Fripp | Takamatsu, 19 December 2015 | 3:52 |
| 11. | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | Nagoya, 21 December 2015 | 11:53 |
| 12. | "Islands" (Bonus track from Live in Chicago) | Fripp, Sinfield | Chicago, 28 June 2017 | 9:37 |
| Total length: | 1:10:10 | |||
Personnel
editCredits adapted from liner notes.[7]
King Crimson
- Robert Fripp – guitar, keyboards, mastering, production
- Mel Collins – saxophone, flute
- Tony Levin – bass, chapman stick, voice, photography
- Pat Mastelotto – drums
- Gavin Harrison – drums
- Jeremy Stacey – drums, keyboards (Vienna 2016 and Chicago "Islands" only)
- Jakko Jakszyk – guitar, flute, voice
- Bill Rieflin – drums (Japan 2015 only), keyboards (Japan 2015 and Chicago "Islands" only)
Additional personnel
- David Singleton – photography, liner notes, production, mastering
- Ben Singleton – artwork
- Chris Porter – mixing, mastering
- Alan Jones – photography
- Dave Salt – photography
- Hugh O'Donnell – layout, design
Charts
edit| Chart (2018) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] | 36 |
References
edit- ^ a b c Kelman, John. "King Crimson: Live In Vienna, December 1st, 2016 (UK Edition)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
- ^ a b Smith, Sid. "Live in Vienna". Discipline Global Mobile. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ Levin, Tony. "King Crimson 2016 Tour Pt2, 1st December". Tony Levin Road Diary. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
- ^ Munro, Scott. "King Crimson announce new live album". Team Rock. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ Live in Vienna (Japanese release) (CD liner notes). King Crimson. Discipline Global Mobile. 2017. IECP-10346/347/348. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "King Crimson = キング・クリムゾン* - Live In Vienna = ライヴ・イン・ウィーン 2016 + ライヴ・イン・ジャパン 2015". Discogs. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ Live in Vienna (full release) (CD liner notes). King Crimson. Discipline Global Mobile. 2018. KCXP5002. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "King Crimson Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 19 June 2018.