The Mastelottos – A Romantic’s Guide To King Crimson (CD)

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Brand new sealed copy! (As a result, cannot confirm runout)

From Inner Knot album listing:Its always been a joke in the King Crimson camp that theres never a line for thewomens restrooms during intermissions, said Deborah. King Crimson plays loud andits often intense and raucous. But it can also be haunting and melodic, with some of themost beautiful lyrics ever. We wanted to help uncover that sweetness and introduce thesongs to a different type of audience with A Romantics Guide to King Crimson.The album has amazing contributions from all the musicians involved, especially theTOAPP (Three of a Perfect Pair Music Masters Camp) artists, said Pat. Weexperimented together and since they were already lifelong Crim Heads, they weretotally into reconfiguring the classic performances or developing totally new parts. So,get ready. Youll hear some fantastic detail in their playing.The recording features material they chose and arranged together with lead vocals byDeborah, a creative Tour de Force in her own right, and with Pat drumming andproducing.We compiled King Crimson songs and searched for the romanticism in them, thenrearranged them, said Deborah. The addition of a girl singer automatically changes thefeel of those songs and places them in a different genre. Our idea is to create a way forpeople, especially women, to appreciate the beauty of King Crimsons music without thefear and sometimes resistance attached to the word prog getting in the way. We slowthe songs way down and strip them back to their essential lyrics and melodies.In the Crimson tradition, we approached every song as if it was brand new, said Pat.At first, it involved tinkering with 20-plus songs in hotel rooms using iPhone apps tochoose what worked best for us. We first focused on the lyrics. The words had toresonate and the arrangements had to develop a prog-meets-pop twist to meet my hopes.We had no desire to duplicate the original arrangements. In fact, just the opposite. I wastrying to discover where else they could go to expose sweetness, sort of like the old daysof cassettes and giving a loved one a mixtape. Its a gift to fans and a family of formerCrims.Comes in a vertical six-panel digifile with a hype sticker on the shrink.

Format: CD

Media Condition:Near Mint (NM or M-)
Sleeve Condition:Near Mint (NM or M-)
Country: US
Released:14 Feb 2021
Genre: Rock
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Track listing:

1. Two Hands 4:33
2. Matte Kudasai 4:19
3. Heartbeat 4:23
4. Moonchild 4:24
5. Inner Garden 4:55
6. One Time (Eyes Wide Open) 6:45
7. Peace 2:09
8. Book Of Saturday 4:56
9. Exiles 5:25
10. Elephant Talk 4:41
11. People 4:56
12. Sleepless 4:45

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