The Vrooom Sessions

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The VROOOM Sessions
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Compilation album by
King Crimson
ReleasedDecember 1999
RecordedApril–May 1994
StudioApplehead Studios in Woodstock, New York, United States.
Genre Progressive rock, instrumental
Label King Crimson Collectors' Club

The VROOOM Sessions is an album of instrumental outtakes recorded by King Crimson as studio improvisations during the rehearsals for the recording sessions of their 1994 comeback EP Vrooom . [1]

Contents

These were the first studio recordings made by King Crimson after Robert Fripp reformed the band in 1994, in what has been called the "Double Trio" lineup. Along with Vrooom and the 1995 full-length THRAK and the Nashville Rehearsals , these are the only studio recordings of King Crimson's 1994-1997 formation. These outtakes were released through the band's Collectors' Club in December 1999, not long after Bill Bruford and Tony Levin had departed the band, bringing the Double Trio format to an end.

Track listing

  1. "Bass Groove" (Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto) – 4:34
    • Recorded April 21, 1994
  2. "Fashionable" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:59
    • Recorded April 20, 1994
  3. "Monster Jam" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 8:38
    • Recorded May 4, 1994
  4. "Slow Mellow" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 2:57
    • Recorded April 26, 1994
  5. "Krim 3" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 3:20
    • Recorded April 26, 1994; later released on Belew's 1996 solo album Op Zop Too Wah as "I Remember How To Forget"
  6. "Funky Jam" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:57
    • Recorded May 4, 1994
  7. "Bill and Tony" (Bruford, Levin) – 1:36
    • Recorded April 28, 1994
  8. "No Questions Asked" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 3:24
    • Recorded April 23, 1994; later reworked into "Sex, Sleep, Eat, Drink, Dream" on Vrooom
  9. "Adrian's Clouds" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 1:39
    • Recorded April 22, 1994
  10. "Calliope" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:58
    • Recorded April 23, 1994
  11. "One Time" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:24
    • Recorded April 28, 1994; finished version appears on Vrooom
  12. "Booga Looga" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 3:45
    • Recorded April 23, 1994

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ Planer, Lindsay. "The VROOOM Sessions, 1994 - King Crimson | Album". AllMusic.
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