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MUSICAL GUIDE TO KING CRIMSON’S RED

Andrew Keeling

ISBN 978-1-78952-321-8

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Publication: 30 MAY 2024
th
ISBN: 9781789523218
Price: £16.99
Binding: Paperback

Format: 203 x 127 mm
Extent: 160 pp
Illustrated: 16 colour pages
Thema: AVLP Popular Music

Comparative title: 9780957048935 Concise Musical
Guide to King Crimson and Robert Fripp

• Part of a well-established series taking a
musicological look at each of King Crimson’s
albums. Sonicbond is hoping to do a phased
reissue of the other titles in the series in 2024
and 2025.
• Includes 46 written musical examples from the
album.
• Andrew Keeling is a friend of Robert Fripp, and
the book is fully authorised by the King Crimson
Andrew Keeling is a composer and musician whose enthusiasm for organisation.
King Crimson began in 1969 after hearing the band’s first album, In
the Court of the Crimson King, later seeing the band ‘live’ in 1971. Considered by some as the seminal King Crimson album for
He has worked with Robert Fripp orchestrating The Wine of Silence the band’s ‘classic period’, Red stands as book-ends with the
(DGM/Panegyric) and written a series of Musical Guides about the debut In the Court of the Crimson King, an album which
music of King Crimson. As a composer, his pieces have been guitarist Robert Fripp declared ‘defined the progressive rock
performed throughout the world and recorded on the Delphian, oeuvre’. Rumours have it that Red was the final album heard
Metier, DGM, Burning Shed and Spaceward labels. He plays flute in by Kurt Cobain prior to his untimely death while inspiring his
an improvisation duo with former King Crimson violinist, David Cross, band Nirvana’s In Utero, citing one example of the influence it
has had over the past fifty years.
releasing two albums, English Sun and October is Marigold, and has
also released albums with alt-rock bands The Gong Farmers and Also demonstrating King Crimson’s approach to re-invention,
Andrew Keeling’s Otherworld. He holds a PhD from Manchester Red points the way forward for proto-punk, grunge and math
University, UK. rock while casting a backwards glance to the grand ballad
style represented on earlier albums such as In the Court of the
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rules for progressive rock, daringly transiting from the classical
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Phone: 01892 837171 driving title track and the mysterious improvisation,
‘Providence’, while anticipating the direction the band may
Prices and specifications are provisional and are subject to change
without notice. 07/12/2023 have taken in songs such as ‘Fallen Angel’ and ‘One More Red
Nightmare’ had Fripp decided not to jump ship prior to Red’s
release.