However, after being presented with the highly experimental recording ( produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson ), RCA became unwilling to release what was, in their view, a non-commercial album.

In their primordial form, Giles, Giles & Fripp, augmented by McDonald and ex-Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble, recorded an early version of the McDonald-Sinfield song " I Talk to the Wind ", which later became part of King Crimson's repertoire.

Another key performer was jazz pianist Keith Tippett, who became an integral part of King Crimson's sound for the next few records ( although Fripp offered him full band membership, Tippett preferred to remain as a studio collaborator and only performed live with the band once ).

Gordon Fripp Henderson, ( April 17, 1912 – August 18, 1993 ) was a Canadian intellectual property lawyer who joined the law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in 1937, and later became its chairman.

Rieflin is involved in a music collaboration project entitled The Humans, which consists of him, Chris Wong, Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox.

It was with their second album, 1978's More Songs About Buildings and Food that the band began its long-term collaboration with producer Brian Eno, who had previously worked with Roxy Music, David Bowie, John Cale and Robert Fripp ; the title of Eno's 1977 song " King's Lead Hat " is an anagram of the band's name.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

Over 1981 and 1982, Summers recorded his first album with Robert Fripp, I Advance Masked.

After the Synchronicity tour ended in March 1984, the band went on hiatus while Sting recorded and toured in support of his successful solo debut LP, the jazz-influenced The Dream of the Blue Turtles, released in June 1985, Copeland recorded and filmed The Rhythmatist ( 1985 ) and Summers recorded another album with Robert Fripp ( Bewitched, 1984 ) and the theme song for the film 2010.

The 1990s edition of King Crimson toured as a " double power trio " ( according to leader Robert Fripp ), with two drummers, two bassists and two guitars.

Having been impressed by Belew's work with Gaga and David Bowie, Fripp asked Belew to join his new four-piece band ( at that time called Discipline ) as singer and second guitarist.

Belew opted to uncouple himself from Talking Heads and join Fripp, with whom he would have more opportunities to develop and express himself.

Finding himself responsible for the bulk of the band's songwriting and dealing with the extra pressures of being the frontman in a high-level group, Belew squabbled with Fripp over group approach and sound.

However, 1984's Three of a Perfect Pair proved tortuous to write, and although King Crimson eventually created another successful album ( including some Belew experiments with fretless guitar ), Fripp opted to split the band in 1984.

As he had done with previous solo albums, Eno worked with several guest musicians including Phil Collins, John Cale and Robert Fripp.

" Robert Fripp, who worked with Eno on ( No Pussyfooting ) and Here Come the Warm Jets, performed the solo on " St. Elmo's Fire ".

In 1986 Willcox married UK guitarist Robert Fripp and formed with him a new band Sunday All Over The World which released critically acclaimed Kneeling at the Shrine album.

" Robert Fripp joined his wife on her 1991 album Ophelia's Shadow ( 1991 ) which, along with Dreamchild ( 1994 ), received good reviews.

Willcox continued to perform with The Humans, featuring Bill Reiflin, Chris Wong and occasionally husband Robert Fripp.

* Trey Gunn played Chapman Stick with Robert Fripp, David Sylvian, Sunday All Over the World and King Crimson.

In the early 1990s, guitarist Robert Fripp invited Sylvian to sing with progressive rock stalwarts King Crimson.

The accompanying music was composed by Sylvian, with text written and recited by Fripp.

Drummer Thomas Lang was born in Vienna in 1967 and is now world renowned for his technical abilities, having played with artists such as Robert Fripp, Geri Halliwell and Robbie Williams.

* Interview with Robert Fripp about producing The Roches

For the first 19 years of their marriage the couple lived largely separate lives due to the demands of their careers: she in Pershore, Worcestershire, UK, Fripp in the US, and rarely saw each other for more than 12 weeks every year.

Living in Seattle gave Rieflin the opportunity to build relationships with other prominent musicians including Robert Fripp and Trey Gunn of King Crimson, Scott McCaughey of the Young Fresh Fellows, Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM and Peter Buck of R. E. M.

Fripp contributed to Rieflin's solo debut, Birth of a Giant, which also featured Rieflin singing in something other than a background role.

At the end of side two there is a recording of studio chatter followed by Fripp saying, among other things, "... What we're going to do, umm ... do it twice more, once with the oboe, once without it, and then ... we finish ".

Collins, on the other hand, remained in King Crimson with Fripp for the recording of the group's next album, Islands.

Bass Communion's albums have often featured collaborations from other musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, saxophonist Theo Travis, Bryn Jones ( also known as Muslimgauze ), and Vidna Obmana.

Since that time, other parts of Hilton Head Island in addition to Fripp Island, Seabrook Island, Kiawah Island, and the Wild Dunes portion of the Isle of Palms have developed into popular destinations for golf, tennis, and beach vacations.

Since its inception in 1995, G3 has toured most years and has featured many guitarists, including Steve Vai ( Satriani's former student ), Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Yngwie Malmsteen, John Petrucci, Robert Fripp, Paul Gilbert, Steve Morse, Steve Lukather, Uli Jon Roth, Michael Schenker, Adrian Legg and many other special guests, including Tony MacAlpine, Johnny Hiland, Keith More, Chris Duarte, Andy Timmons, Neal Schon, Gary Hoey, Brian May, Billy Gibbons, Johnny A, George Lynch, Patrick Rondat, Herman Li, Alejandro Silva, and Eric Sardinas.

He played guitar on a range of projects including an Algerian Raï music album for Cheikha Rimitti called Sidi Mansour, which also featured Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea and Robert Fripp, to garage-pop with Pearl Harbor, retro-jungle-surf with Johnny Feelings, and exotica lounge music with Frenchy.

Former and current King Crimson members John Wetton, Robert Fripp, and Peter Sinfield, as well as guest lyricist Richard Palmer-James, have all guested on his solo projects.

He has toured, recorded, and composed with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists, and contributed and / or directed audio for such games as Monolith's No One Lives Forever, Microsoft's Combat Flight Sim series, the MechAssault series on Xbox, the FASA Studio adaptation of Shadowrun on the Xbox360 and Windows Vista platforms, Valve's Left4Dead and most recently on Portal 2.

Recordings with Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists include Show of Hands ( Editions EG ), Live in Europe ( DGM ), and most recently the Inner Knot compilation, The Plague of Crafty Gutarists.

The most seaward of the South Carolina Sea Islands, Fripp Island ( often shortened to " Fripp ") is renowned for its resort amenities and natural conservation.

Dark ambient evolved partially based on several of Brian Eno's early solo albums ( Another Green World -> In Dark Trees, Music For Films ) and colaboration that had a distinctly dark or discordant edge, notably " An Index of Metals " ( from Evening Star, 1975 ), a collaboration with Robert Fripp that incorporated harsh guitar feedback, the ambient pieces on the second half of David Bowie's Low ( 1977 ) and " Heroes ", Fourth World, Vol.

Echoing Lows minimalist, instrumental approach, the second of the trilogy, " Heroes " ( 1977 ), incorporated pop and rock to a greater extent, seeing Bowie joined by guitarist Robert Fripp.

Gurdjieff is said to have had a strong influence on many modern mystics, artists, writers, and thinkers, including Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), Frank Lloyd Wright, Keith Jarrett, George Russell ( composer ), Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Fripp, Jacob Needleman, John Shirley, Carlos Castaneda, Dennis Lewis, Peter Brook, Kate Bush, P. L. Travers, Robert S de Ropp, Walter Inglis Anderson, Jean Toomer, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Louis Pauwels, James Moore and Abdullah Isa Neil Dougan.

This album is the debut of King Crimson's third incarnation, featuring original member and guitarist Robert Fripp and new members John Wetton ( vocals, bass guitar ), David Cross ( violin, Mellotron ), Jamie Muir ( percussion ), and Bill Bruford ( drums ).

The term originated in reference to medieval French motets, but the technique remains in common use in contemporary music ( Louis Andriessen's Hoketus ), popular music ( funk, stereo panning, the work of Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew in King Crimson ), Indonesian gamelan music ( interlocking patterns shared between two instruments — called imbal in Java and Kotekan in Bali ), Andean siku ( panpipe ) music ( two pipe sets sharing the full number of pitches between them ), handbell music ( tunes being distributed between two or more players ), Rara street processions in Haiti, as well as in the Gaga in the Dominican Republic and many African cultures such as the Ba-Benzélé ( featured on Herbie Hancock's " Watermelon Man ", see Pygmy music ), Mbuti, Basarwa ( Khoisan ), the Gumuz tribe from the Blue Nile Province ( Sudan ), and Gogo ( Tanzania ).

* Evening Star ( album ), by Robert Fripp and Brian Eno

The fifth release in King Crimson's 40th Anniversary series featuring new stereo and 5. 1 surround mixes ( by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp ), Sid Smith sleeve notes and copious extra tracks and alternate versions.

The material covers everything from early rehearsals of Pictures of a City ( one of the final new songs performed by the 1969 lineup ) to the previously unheard A Peacemaking Stint Unrolls ( showcasing early ideas & elements that would appear in fully realised form on later KC albums ), a fragment of Fripp playing the tune of Islands on a mellotron, a blistering live Sailor's Tale from the Zoom Club & much more.

This account was recorded by Fripp without Belew's knowledge as well, and is featured on the Discipline version of the track ( as well as almost all live versions ), in place of those earlier lyrics that were based on Fripp's New York recording.

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