David Cross&Robert Fripp: Starless Starlight
Two members of the groundbreaking mid 1970s King Crimson line-up unite on a fascinating album length exploration of a melody that emerged as one of the key themes on the King Crimson masterpiece, Starless.
A beautiful and unexpected collision of violins and Soundscapes.

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Aufgenommen von – Castle Studio

Robert Fripp is a guitarist and composer. Best known as co-founder of the group King Crimson, and his outstanding work with artists such as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and David Sylvian, he is one of the most innovative and consistently challenging musicians of his generation. The Wine of Silence is the first album to feature orchestral arrangements of the guitarist’s solo Soundscapes work. Since the early 1990s Fripp has utilised the latest in looping technology and digital effects to create a gradually unfolding, highly textured, expansive and overtly orchestral music. In 2003, UK based composer Andrew Keeling completed work on a series of detailed orchestral arrangements of pieces taken from Fripp’s solo performances which had been painstakingly transcribed by Bert Lams (California Guitar Trio). Receiving their live premiere in The Netherlands by the Metropole Orkest under the baton of Jan Stulen in 2003, the results evoke the works of Pärt, Górecki, Tavener and others in the ‘holy minimalist’ school of composition. Andrew Keeling’s sensitive and often startling orchestrations emphasise the reverie, passion and contemplation which is at the heart of Fripp’s Soundscapes. The Wine of Silence captures the spirit of the original performances reflecting the guitarist’s rich musicality. It encompasses passages of yearning melody, dramatic choral sequences and beautiful string motifs. While sometimes sombre and elegiac, Fripp’s music radiates a sense of hope, affirmation and resolution. With the tapes of the original Metropole Orkest performance subsequently treated by David Singleton - co-producer of all of Fripp’s Soundscapes recordings to date - The Wine Of Silence forms a sublime and often moving collection of contemporary orchestral music.

Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, <em>No Pussyfooting</em><br />

Live at TFM Hall, Tokyo Japan, November 11th, 1992.
Made in Italy

Love Cannot Bear is the brand new album of Soundscapes by Robert Fripp. Soundscapes, consisting of improvised guitar solos played through a variety of electronic processors and sound modules, have been the primary focus of Fripp's solo performances for more than a decade. The early generations of Soundscapes were presented via a quintet of albums released by DGM between 1994 and 1996. While there have been many memorable Soundscapes concerts in the interim period, allowing the sound world and approach to the work to evolve substantially, DGM's continuing commitment to Robert's work in all its forms King Crimson (live, studio and archive work), the ProjeKcts series etc., has left his key area unintentionally under-represented on CD. The Soundscapes concept has also been presented to a much larger audience over the last few years. The Soundscapes concept has also been presented to a much larger audience over the last few years. As well as the ongoing series of individual concerts, Robert has played as part of the sell-out G3 tours of Europe and South America with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai in 2004, with Porcupine Tree in the US in 2005 and ,most recently, in a series of warmly received concerts at this year's open air Big Chill festival in the UK. While most Soundscapes performances embody many moods and musical areas, Love Cannot Bear presents Soundscapes in their most positive, tonal settings and is drawn from a series of live performances in the US in June this year. 9 tracks. Panegyric. 2005.

Bass Guitar, Chapman Stick – Tony Levin
Design – Hugh O'Donnell
Drums – Bill Bruford
Edited By – Alex R. Mundy
Engineer – Brad Davis, Tony Arnold
Guitar – Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp
Photography By – Tony Levin
Producer – Alex R. Mundy, David Singleton