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Washington Square Church - 200 Gram Vinyl - Sealed

ROBERT FRIPP Washington Square Church (2022 UK/EU limited edition 11-track double album 2-LP pressed on 200-gram Super-Heavyweight Vinyl, featuring previously unreleased Frippertronics performances mixed from the original tapes by David Singleton. Recorded in New York City between July & August 1981, these are perhaps the finest example of Frippertronics in performance. The music played explores every sonic avenue available to Robert Fripp as a guitar player - mesmerising loops, overlaid with beautiful solos, fast running ‘Frame by Frame’ style lines against a looped background, powerful ‘Scary Monsters’ type guitar noises and more besides. Gatefold picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed)

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$24.79, £19.99  
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Release Date 6th Apr 2022
Release Year 2022 - 3 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label Panegyric
Complete Stock List Go to Robert Fripp
Product Catalogue No DGMLPX103
Music Genre 70s Artists, Progressive, 70s Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
Tracklisting & More Information

After completing the first round of concerts with a revived King Crimson starting in May 1981, Fripp headed over to the USA where he began a week-long residency at Washington Square United Methodist Church on 135 W Fourth Street in New York. Built in 1860, the church had historically been home to many congregations but in more recent years had become the venue for groups such as the Black Panthers, Gay Men’s Health Crisis and numerous arts organisations.

The series of Frippertronics concerts were held in aid of a Soho-based theatre group and they find the guitarist using his technique of slowly building the music from the ground up, step by step. It’s an approach which demonstrates how the addition or subtraction of a single note can change the entire mood of a piece as we move in the space of a few bars from an atmosphere of pensive anticipation to one of yearning hope.

In an interview with the Melody Maker published just weeks before these concerts, Fripp was asked why he continued to perform Frippertronics concerts. “It gives me a way of working with intimate contact with members of an audience...It's almost an excuse to put me in a situation where one has the audience, performer and music, and in a certain kind of way something remarkable can happen. And that has happened to me, and it's not possible in a group...Frippertronics is the most enjoyable means of playing I've ever found.”

The Washington Square Church performances represent some of the finest recorded examples of the Frippertronics series. Unlike other such recordings where the loops are on tape in the DGM archive but the solos require painstaking matching of existing audience recordings and bootlegs to those loops to complete the picture, the solos for these shows were actually recorded but not labelled as to which solos matched which loops. The matched pairs only became possible when DGM audio engineer Alex R. Mundy realised that the loops had been picked up, at microscopic audio levels, by the guitar pick-ups playing the solos, allowing for identification. David Singleton was then able to mix and produce the resulting audio.

The music played more than rewards such efforts as, culled from the shows, (more complete versions appear on the “Exposures” boxed set), Fripp appears to explore every sonic avenue available to him as a guitar player – mesmerising loops, overlaid with beautiful solos, fast running ‘Frame by Frame’ style lines against a looped background, powerful ‘Scary Monsters’ type guitar noises and more besides.

This is the Frippertronics album that should have come out in 1982. The forty years that have passed have done nothing to diminish the power of the music.

Side One
1. Washington Square I
2. Washington Square II
3. Washington Square III

Side Two
1. Washington Square IV
2. Washington Square V
3. Washington Square VI

Side Three
1. Washington Square VII
2. Washington Square VIII
3. Washington Square IX

Side Four
1. Washington Square X
2. Washington Square XI

DOUBLE LP  
Recording Artist Robert Fripp
Product Title Washington Square Church - 200 Gram Vinyl - Sealed
Product Information Robert Fripp Washington Square Church - 200 Gram Vinyl - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To 21st Century Schizoid Band, Adrian Belew, Al Et Al, Andy Summers & Robert Fripp, Boz Burrell, CJ3: Crimson Jazz Trio, David Cross, Eddie Jobson, Freeway, Giles, Giles & Fripp, Gordon Haskell, Ian McDonald, Ian Wallace (Crim), Jack-Knife, John Wetton, King Crimson, McDonald & Giles, Michael Giles, Mogul Thrash, Pete Sinfield, Qango, Robert Fripp & Brian Eno, Ten Seconds, The California Guitar Trio, The Grid / Fripp, The Roches, Tony Levin, Toyah & Fripp, Trendsetters Limited, Trey Gunn, U.K.
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