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title: "In the Court of the Crimson King, 40th Anniversary Series"
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# In the Court of the Crimson King, 40th Anniversary Series

**Brand:** king crimson
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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Crimson King: 40th Anniversary CD plus MLP Lossless 5.1 & DTS digital surround DVD package
*by A***R on 28 November 2012*

For the musically curious from a later generation who don't know much about King Crimson but want to know where to start, ItCotCK was the band's first album, released in November 1969. Its release had a big impact on the sound of contemporary music at the time: it's considered to be one of the founding cornerstones of what became the genre `progressive rock', a definitively British phenomenon in its heyday in the 1970s which combined not just rock & blues but jazz & classical music, unorthodox combinations of instruments & sounds with longer crossover-style musical pieces.The musicians on ItCotCK were Robert Fripp (electric & acoustic guitars), Greg Lake (bass & vocals), Ian McDonald (a multi-instrumentalist here playing flute, woodwind & keyboards), Michael Giles (drums), and Peter Sinfield (song lyrics, stage lighting, conceptualist). Robert Fripp was later to assume the mantle of band leader and spokesman, and KC eventually became `his' band. However on ItCotCK Fripp did almost none of the writing; most of the compositional work was done by Ian McDonald, with input from Michael Giles and all the song lyrics written by Peter Sinfield.The blistering full-on opener `21st Century Schizoid Man' is an apocalyptic-themed cry against the impersonal machine-age and all its devilry, a dark vision of the future (this was 1969 & horrific images from the Vietnam War such as napalm-burned children filled the world's TV screens every evening). `Schizoid man' is the song everyone identifies with KC, even if they have never heard it. Most of the piece is loud & intentionally harsh: with a powerful driving main theme & vocals distorted through a VCS synthesizer, it moves quickly through different dynamics & time signatures to a crescendo conclusion.In contrast, the rest of the album is mellow, with a quiet woodwind-led ballad `I talk to the wind', a long lounge-jazz improvisation `Moonchild' (Greg Lake later reprised this song structure with `Take a Pebble' when working with ELP) and 2 musically lush majestic pieces, `Epitaph' & the superb title-track which closes the album. The juxtaposition of the orchestral-sounding mellotron (a new hi-tech instrument at the time), acoustic guitar and woodwind produces a rich & satisfying sound. The excellent solo vocal from Greg Lake over a time-skipping rhythm, choral-singing and the mellotron gives the album (and to some extent its follow-up `In the Wake of Poseidon') its special character: it sounds like nothing else before or since. Sinfield's lyrics sound a touch pretentious now but hey, these guys were in their 20s, this was the 1960s and at least it was original.The 40th Anniversary offering:Released in 2009, CD plus audio DVD are presented in a gatefold sleeve decorated throughout with the striking original album cover artwork. A 16-page colour booklet containing all the song lyrics, history of the band, the music and its various releases over the years penned by Sid Smith completes the package.The CD is great for playing in the car for example, but the (lossless & PCM stereo) DVD is the star of the show. The menu is easy to navigate, the sound fabulous. There is a brief monochrome clip of the band playing `21st Century Schizoid man' in Hyde Park in July 1969 to an estimated 500,000 people at the free open-air concert headlined by The Rolling Stones, to an audience looking in equal measure shocked and astounded - presumably at the revolutionary and never-heard-before music assaulting their ears.The original album sounds superb, with a slightly truncated `Moonchild' plus the full version as one of the extras. The package contains a lot of extra material from the archives, lovingly restored to near-perfection by the skill of sound wizard Steven Wilson: alternate takes of `Moonchild' & `I talk to the wind', a purely instrumental version of `Epitaph' & a curious recording of the band discussing how to make certain sounds for `Schizoid man' in the studio.Overall this is probably the best ItCotCK you're likely to hear, offered in a generous package oozing the quality befitting this true classic from the golden age of British prog.BTW Robert Fripp is from Dorset in the West Country, as were several other members of the original line-up. The Crimson King is a type of cider apple, and you can see the apple iconography in the album's distinctive artwork.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Classic Album
*by M***N on 21 February 2025*

Classic Album. Nuff sed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best sounding edition so far.
*by A***T on 13 December 2009*

For those wondering whether there are any sonic differences between this release - the CD stereo remaster and the 30th Anniversary and subsequent improved 2004 editions - there is indeed improvement on this 2009 release over the ones from 5 & 10 years ago; these improvements are not as obvious as those on the new Lizard edition, where such differences are noticed straight away, but this 2009 edition of 'ItCotCK' does sound better, with all instruments - guitars & drums in particular - sounding fuller/ clearer, with even better instrument separation.You will notice/ discover new sounds which did not 'seem to be there before', making this album sound even more remarkable than it already had.Unlike other remastered albums by other artists, here the quiet bits remain quiet, and the loud ones remain loud, i.e. this is not (only) aimed at the mp3 generation, though this new edition converted to mp3 files sounds superb.The bonus tracks/ takes are also quite good & very interesting, though the final takes that made it to the official release remain the best ones, IMO. Moonchild has been edited/ shortened but you do get the full (unedited) original version - also remastered - as a bonus track.Haven't had a chance to listen to the DVD-A yet, but if the stereo CD version is this good, then the DVD-A will very likely be even better sounding.

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