Thrakattak

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Thrakattak
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Live album by
King Crimson
Released21 May 1996 (1996-5-21) [1]
Recorded1995
VenueVarious
Genre Progressive rock, experimental rock, free improvisation
Length57:14
Label Discipline Global Mobile
Producer Robert Fripp and David Singleton
King Crimson chronology
B'Boom: Live in Argentina
(1995)		Thrakattak
(1996)		 Epitaph
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Rolling Stone (favorable) [3]

Thrakattak (written with consonants capitalized as THRaKaTTaK on the album cover) is a live album by the band King Crimson released in 1996 and recorded during their 1995 THRAK tour of the United States and Japan.

Contents

Each night the band would perform a collective improvisation in the middle of the instrumental piece "THRAK". This album presents an hour-long version of that piece by editing many of these improvisations together, bookended by the "THRAK" theme.

Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", also appears as track 12 on disc 2 of the 1999 live album On Broadway . An alternative version appears as track 11 on disc 1 of the 2001 live compilation album Vrooom Vrooom , retitled "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande".

Track listing

All music by Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Bruford and Mastelotto

  1. "Thrak" – 2:20
    Recorded at:
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 21 November 1995
  2. "Fearless and Highly Thrakked" – 6:35
    Recorded at:
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 20 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 21 November 1995
  3. "Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip" – 11:18
    Recorded at:
    Nagoya Shimin Kaikan, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, 8 October 1995
    Hitomi Kinen Kōdō, Tokyo, Japan, 10 October 1995
    Omiya Sonic Hall, Saitama, Saitama, Japan, 12 October 1995
  4. "Thrakattak (Part I)" – 3:42
    Recorded at:
    Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 2 October 1995
    Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 3 October 1995
    Festival Hall, Kita-ku, Osaka, Japan, 9 October 1995
  5. "The Slaughter of the Innocents" – 8:03
    Recorded at:
    Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 14 October 1995
    Paramount Theater, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States, 17 November 1995
    Mahaffey Theater, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, 8 November 1995
    Roxy Theatre, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 11 November 1995
  6. "This Night Wounds Time" – 11:16
    Recorded at:
    Tupperware Convention Center, Kissimmee, Florida, United States, 9 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 22 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 24 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 25 November 1995
    Palace Theatre, Columbus, Ohio, United States, 27 November 1995
    Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 29 November 1995
  7. "Thrakattak (Part II)" – 11:08
    Recorded at:
    Auditorium Theatre, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States, 16 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 22 November 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 25 November 1995
    Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont, Cook County, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 29 November 1995
  8. "Thrak (Reprise)" – 2:52
    Recorded at:
    Nakano Sun Plaza, Nakano, Tokyo, Japan, 5 October 1995
    Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 20 November 1995

Personnel

King Crimson

Technical personnel

Charts

Chart (1996)Peak
position
Japanese Albums (Oricon) [4] 87

References

  1. ↑ "Official site".
  2. ↑ Thrakattak at AllMusic
  3. ↑ Rolling Stone
  4. ↑ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN   4-87131-077-9.
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