{"title":"Robert Fripp LAF10012025","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-grid-robert-fripp-leviathan-2lp-200g","title":"The Grid \u0026 Robert Fripp - Leviathan (2LP\/200g)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: DGMLPX102\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0633367793317\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 25th June 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNew collaborative album from electronic duo The Grid (aka Richard Norris \u0026amp; Dave Ball) and Robert Fripp \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCombining Fripp Soundscapes with synth, drums, programming and effects by The Grid\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable on Double disc CD\/DVD-a, 2LP 200 gram super-heavyweight vinyl and Digital album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough not intended as such, in some respects Leviathan and its creators represent between them one version of the history of British electronic music. In 1973, the curiosity of a significant chunk of the King Crimson and Roxy Music fan bases, along with an attractive price, propelled Fripp \u0026amp; Eno’s No Pussyfooting into many thousands of homes where no such recording had previously registered a single sleeve, much less a gatefold. By the early 80s Dave Ball \u0026amp; Marc Almond’s Soft Cell were at the forefront of a wave of synth based bands who dominated the singles and albums charts. In the 1990s, The Grid – Dave Ball (again) \u0026amp; Richard Norris formed a key act in what was sometimes referred to as Electronica, sometimes herded under the (almost meaningless) “Dance music” category, occasionally (equally inaccurately\/narrowly) described as “ambient” music, the struggles of music industry name-taggers never quite catching either the breadth of the music involved, nor recognising – until much later – the scope of its influence.\u003cbr\u003eThe Grid’s success - a number of hit singles and albums, including the million selling “Swamp Thing”, world tours, remixes for Eno, Pet Shop Boys, Yello, Sylvian\/Fripp – could find a ready audience among those for whom, by now, electronic music was part of the everyday musical fabric and commonality of experience, even as it continued to evolve and develop as a form in itself.\u003cbr\u003eThe Grid were managed at the time (1992) by David Enthoven who had also managed King Crimson and Roxy Music from inception for many years and by now with a Sylvian\/Fripp remix among their producing credits, it is no surprise that the duo and Fripp were keen to see if mutual recordings would produce interesting results – hence the arrival of the equipment described by Richard Norris above at Eastcote Studios in West London. \u003cbr\u003eAs Norris further notes: ‘Robert’s craft and musicianship was slightly daunting to us at first, being from a more DIY, post punk electronic background, but we soon worked out a language to communicate in. “Make it sound like a thunderstorm…”, “I’m going to make a sound like a bomb”, that kind of thing. After every track, Robert would say “Have you got any more?” and seemed to be greatly enjoying himself. He was a very generous guest’. \u003cbr\u003eThe resulting Fripp recordings provided material for much of The Grid’s second album ‘456’ and their Top 20 follow-up album ‘Evolver’. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut there was more, much more…. \u003cbr\u003eA few years ago, The Grid rediscovered tapes from these sessions, including unreleased tracks they’d worked up but never completed or mixed. A set of long solo drone pieces from Fripp was discovered along with a lost track that was then remixed to become ‘A Cabala Sky’ by The Grid \/ Fripp and released as part of Bill Brewster’s acclaimed ‘Late Night Tales’ compilation series in 2014. \u003cbr\u003eFurther Fripp Soundscapes from the same period were added to the mix by DGM’s David Singleton, which inspired The Grid to add new synths, drums, programming and effects to create the album ‘Leviathan’ a 2LP and CD\/DVD-a set.\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the mythical whale ‘Leviathan’, the biggest prehistoric whale that ever lived, Norris adds ‘I like Philip Hoare’s book “Leviathan”, which is about his obsession with whales and whale watching and the awe of coming into contact with such massive creatures. They are quite mysterious. Their brains are enormous, and we don’t quite know what all the brain power is doing… A bit like Robert, really’.\u003cbr\u003eHaving completed the album’s stereo mixes, DGM suggested the music as ideal for a full 5.1 surround mix by The Vicar. Electronic music lends itself very well to Surround Sound mixing as the listener has no fixed notion as to where any sound should emerge from. This mix features on the CD\/DVD-a edition (alongside the stereo mix) and while Surround Sound is sometimes regarded as “niche” in terms of audience, the same would have been said about any form of electronic music when Fripp turned up, guitar in hand, at Eno’s place in 1972. \u003cbr\u003eBut then inquisitive musicians, even (perhaps especially) when they approach music from very different perspectives, often arrive at places that are as intriguing to an audience as they were to the participants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeviathan:\u003cbr\u003e1. Empire\u003cbr\u003e2. Milkwood\u003cbr\u003e3. Pulse Detected\u003cbr\u003e4. Loom\u003cbr\u003e5. Leviathan\u003cbr\u003e6. After The Rain\u003cbr\u003e7. Fire Tower\u003cbr\u003e8. Zhora\u003cbr\u003e9. 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For many attending the effect of the music as it slowly unfolded was profound and deeply moving, and something which Fripp himself experienced. Speaking to Melody Maker’s Lynden Barber in 1981, Fripp argued that Frippertronics gave him a way of working that put him in intimate contact with an audience, something that had been increasingly impossible in the conventional band set-up. “You can't play Frippertronics and coast. It's never that safe. 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. Of all the tours I've done over 12 years, the only one I can look back on without being revolted or feeling grubby is the Frippertronics tour of 1979, the most crushingly hard work I've ever done.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReleased in April 1981 just weeks after the sole album by The League of Gentlemen, Let The Power Fall was the final solo album by Robert Fripp of that period, with the band that would become the next incarnation of King Crimson preparing to enter Basing Street studios in May.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the album has been unavailable in any format for many years and is very long (in vinyl terms) on both sides, this release is ideally suited to audiophile grade vinyl and has been long-awaited by fans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003cbr\u003eSide A \u003cbr\u003e1. 1984\u003cbr\u003e2. 1985\u003cbr\u003eSide B\u003cbr\u003e1. 1986\u003cbr\u003e2. 1987\u003cbr\u003e3. 1988\u003cbr\u003e4. 1989\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41631089918108,"sku":"DGMLP6","price":16.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/image007_132f57b1-c9c5-4d39-b186-ce55749b6328.jpg?v=1652100066"},{"product_id":"robert-fripp-god-save-the-queen-under-heavy-2lp-200g","title":"Robert Fripp - God Save The Queen \/ Under Heavy..(2LP\/200G)","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: 2 x LP\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCatalogue No.: DGMLP5\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBarcode: 0633367605917\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease Date: 01 Jul 2022\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGenre: Ambient\/Drone\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e• 2021 remaster by David Singleton\u003cbr\u003e• Mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering\u003cbr\u003e• Pressed on 200gram Super-Heavyweight vinyl at Vinyl Factory UK\u003cbr\u003e• Available on vinyl again for the first time since the mid-1980s \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGod Save the Queen: By the time Exposure had been released in June 1979 Robert Fripp had already embarked on one of the most unconventional tours to support a new record that had ever been undertaken; record shops, offices, public spaces, canteens, planetariums and, later, some conventional venues and theatres. Accompanied by a tour manager, a Les Paul guitar, a pedalboard, and two Revox tape recorders were packed into a car and they crisscrossed their way across Europe and America. This was, in part, a response to record label Polydor\/EG management’s allocation of a mere $10k as a marketing budget. Using the money as a form of tour support, Fripp took “Frippertronics” directly to the offices of local record companies, record shops and, most importantly, audiences of fans and casual listeners alike. That tour in turn provided the material for many further recordings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder Heavy Manners: Side two of the LP was given over to the next phase of Fripp’s Drive To 1981. Sometimes referred to as Discotronics, Fripp intended to create a bespoke meeting place between Frippertronics’ repetitious loops and a pulsating four-to-the-floor beat. With bassist Busta Cherry Jones and drummer Paul Duskin, the trio laid down a taut minimalist groove against Frippertronics loops lifted from the solo tour earlier in the year. The trio line-up was augmented by David Byrne as guest vocalist on the title track.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviewing God Save The Queen\/Under Heavy Manners, Melody Maker’s Allan Jones lauded the Frippertronics pieces but prophetically concluded: “It’s to Under Heavy Manners that one eventually looks for a key to Fripp’s musical future. He, as much as anyone, needs someone to force an entry into areas he’s not fully able to unlock himself. Under Heavy Manners suggests he’s looking in the right directions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnavailable for decades on vinyl, the album makes an appropriate return to the record shop racks –one of the points of origin for the guitar loops that underpin the recording. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRACKLISTING\u003cbr\u003eSide A – God Save The Queen\u003cbr\u003e1. 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