Discipline (King Crimson album)
Occupation
- Robert Fripp - Guitar
- Adrian Belew - guitar, vocals
- Bill Bruford - drums
- Tony Levin - Bass, Chapman Stick
USA (1975, live)
Discipline is the eighth studio album by the band King Crimson, and the first of three albums, which started the band after their reunion in the 1980s.
Formation
After the release of King Crimson was devoted to Robert Fripp collaboration with other musicians, including Brian Eno, and developed together with it the Frippertronics mentioned tape effects. It produced two albums, Exposure and God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners, on which he collaborated with Brian Eno and David Byrne. In 1980, he finally formed the band The League of Gentlemen ( s) that was based on the emerging New Wave style. The performances with the League of Gentlemen Fripp inspired to reactivate King Crimson. That same year, he made contact with former King Crimson drummer Bill Bruford. Another musician guitarist and vocalist Adrian Belew and bassist Tony Levin were recruited. With this lineup the band performed for a time under the name Discipline, until they finally renamed to King Crimson.
Style and reception
By not using instruments and mellotron, the previous King Crimson albums gave their style, rather minimalist, oriented New Wave sound of this album is perceived as relatively dry. Dominating the music of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belews playing guitar, playing the typical for the album fast runs in the high sound regions. In the experimental pieces Frame by Frame and Thela Hun Ginjeet are offset their polymetric passages. At the request of Robert Fripp Bruford drummer almost never plays on the pool, so that the high frequencies are reserved in the sound of the guitars and occasionally Belews paranoid sounding vocals. The texts written by this treat social and interpersonal problems, such as violence ( Thela Hun Ginjeet ) and complain, among other things, the futility of human communication ( Elephant Talk ).