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Adrian Belew, Trey Gunn, Robert Fripp, Pat Mastelotto

 

KING CRIMSON, Pueblo Español of Barcelona, July, 3 2003

The stage where they were playing was rather small. There were the amplifiers and racs effects of Robert Fripp. Noting that the sound was with microphones in the amplifiers and not directly to the mixer. This creates a sound more authentic booted directly of the amplifier.
The hum was so evident that, overwhelmed, the public approached the scene in the presence of Robert Fripp that alone and 20 minutes earlier than planned, left the stage to "play" with his guitar and rac effects. An absolute respect, reverential, almost mystical before what at that time was brewing. In rigorous black, Fripp drew with his soundscapes these hypnotics sounds that listening to his music, do not know where they come. So not a gesture, nor a look at expectant public, or a disguise of smile, or a greeting. This beyond gesture of face to the gallery. His music and the rest of components of King Crimson is pure creation as showed us the last July in his concert in Barcelona in the incomparable framework of the central square of the Pueblo Español.

Never before had been so concentrated in a concert, resolved to observe the evolution of the elaboration musical of all the components, seeking to Fripp in the arduous task of shelling the mysteries of his guitar.
With the themes on the latest CD study still hot, the present there we are witnessing a new incarnation of the ways that music can takes, with a touch passionate and a sound curl the items were falling almost without time to assimilate the hopes of delighted with some improvisation that, except that we created Trey Gunn, left for other european citations.
The concert began in the same way that starts the album: The voice sampling and single of Adrian Belew and then, without presentations, a demolisher theme in the line of the latest KC. Then rang the themes of his latest work. "Elektrik" was short, like the hectic "Dangerous Curves". Toward the middle of the concert sounded "One Time". Although based the concert in his latest work we gave themes of the past, as "The ConstrucKtion of Light"..
No doubt King Crimson goes beyond to my modest story, that the people there seeing a concept musical that nobody else has contributed to the world of the music and that after countless hours of listening to his music, always just surprise you and that is important, that's why we love and we passion with the music. Despite the fact that Robert Fripp not greeting or were dismissed from the public the slate end with "Frame by frame", "network" and "Elephant talk" compounded that true snub toward the audience. In the fond.

 

José Luís Sola - September 2003