Live in Vienna (King Crimson album)

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Live in Vienna
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Live album by
King Crimson
Released
  • 27 September 2017 (limited release)
  • 6 April 2018 (full release)
Recorded1 December 2016
Venue Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria
Genre Progressive rock
Length187:11
Label Discipline Global Mobile
Producer King Crimson
King Crimson chronology
Live in Chicago
(2017)		Live in Vienna
(00000002)		 Meltdown: Live in Mexico City
(2018)

Live in Vienna, or Live in Vienna, December 1st, 2016, is a triple-disc live album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, originally released in a limited capacity in Japan as Live in Vienna 2016 + Live in Tokyo 2015 on 27 September 2017. [1] The expanded album, just titled Live in Vienna, was released through Discipline Global Mobile on 6 April 2018. [2]

Contents

Content

Live in Vienna was recorded on 1 December 2016 at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria. [3] The first two discs of Live in Vienna cover the entire first and second sets of the concert. [4] The third disc on the original Japanese release was a bonus disc featuring live tracks from King Crimson's 2015 tour of Japan. [5] On the main release, the third disc comprises one of the band's first performances of "Fracture" since 1974, two encores from the show in Vienna, and newly sequenced pieces with excerpts from Robert Fripp's soundscapes edited into them. [2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Writing for All About Jazz , John Kelman praised the album, especially the third disc's version of "Fracture" and its live improvisations, which he called "a primary reason to consider Live in Vienna an essential listen." [1]

Track listing

Disc one
No.TitleWritersLength
1."Walk On: Monk Morph Music of the Chamber" Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin 2:31
2."The Hell Hounds of Krim" Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto, Bill Rieflin 3:39
3."Pictures of a City"Fripp, Peter Sinfield 8:40
4."Lizard" (The Battle of Glass Tears – Part I: Dawn Song)Fripp, Sinfield2:19
5."Suitable Ground for the Blues" Jakko Jakszyk, Fripp4:46
6."VROOOM" Adrian Belew, Fripp, Levin, Trey Gunn, Bill Bruford, Mastelotto5:13
7."The ConstruKction of Light" (Part I only)Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn6:37
8."The Court of the Crimson King" Ian McDonald, Sinfield7:18
9."The Letters"Fripp, Sinfield6:14
10."Sailor's Tale"Fripp6:18
11."Interlude"Fripp, Collins, Levin2:45
12."Radical Action II"Fripp2:15
13."Level Five"Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn7:28
Total length:66:03
Disc two
No.TitleWritersLength
1."Fairy Dust of the Drumsons"Harrison, Mastelotto, Jeremy Stacey 1:42
2."Peace: An End"Fripp, Sinfield1:54
3."Cirkus"Fripp, Sinfield7:32
4."Indiscipline"Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin8:50
5."Epitaph" Greg Lake, McDonald, Michael Giles, Sinfield, Fripp8:47
6."Easy Money" John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James, Fripp10:07
7."The Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row"Harrison, Mastelotto, Rieflin3:03
8."Red"Fripp6:41
9."Meltdown"Jakszyk, Fripp4:16
10."Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Two"Fripp7:00
11."Starless"Bruford, David Cross, Wetton, Palmer-James, Fripp13:03
Total length:72:55
Disc three
No.TitleWritersLength
1."'Heroes'" Brian Eno, David Bowie 5:23
2."Fracture"Fripp10:56
3."21st Century Schizoid Man"Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp13:07
4."Schoenberg Softened His Hat"Fripp, Collins, Levin, David Singleton 11:45
5."Ahriman's Ceaseless Corruptions"Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton6:04
6."Spenta's Counter Claim"Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton0:58
Total length:48:13

Notes

Live in Japan 2015 (Japanese bonus disc; replaces disc 3) [6]
No.TitleWritersLength
1."Walk On: Soundscape"Fripp 
2."Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part One"Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir  
3."One More Red Nightmare"Fripp, Wetton 
4."A Scarcity of Miracles"Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins 
5."Banshee Legs Bell Hassle"Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto 
6."Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)"Fripp 
7."Meltdown"Fripp, Jakszyk 
8."Radical Action II"Fripp 
9."Peace" (Sung in Japanese)Fripp, Sinfield 
10."The Talking Drum"Bruford, Cross, Muir, Wetton, Fripp 
11."21st Century Schizoid Man"Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp 
12."Islands" (Live in Chicago, June 28, 2017)Fripp 


Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes. [7]

King Crimson

Additional personnel

Charts

Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [8] 36

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References

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  2. 1 2 Smith, Sid. "Live in Vienna". Discipline Global Mobile . Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  3. ↑ Levin, Tony. "King Crimson 2016 Tour Pt2, 1st December". Tony Levin Road Diary. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
  4. ↑ Munro, Scott. "King Crimson announce new live album". Team Rock . Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  5. ↑ Live in Vienna (Japanese release) (CD liner notes). King Crimson. Discipline Global Mobile. 2017. IECP-10346/347/348. Retrieved 5 April 2018.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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