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King Crimson Is Back!!!
UPDATE: The full line up has been revealed as Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins, Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp.
The progressive rock world is about to explode as it has been confirmed by original King Crimson guitarist/member Robert Fripp that the band is back! In a blog post on his website, Fripp writes that “…King Crimson VIII moved to its next stage of actualization,” and that the eighth incarnation of the group will not one, not two, but three drummers! Fripp then explains that the reformation brings together a very different group of people than ever before: “…seven players, four English and three American“.
Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison joined the group in 2008 as the group’s second drummer opposite Pat Mastelotto and performed on several tour dates. There is no word if he is still officially in the band or not.
Fripp stunned the music world when he announced his retirement from the music industry in late 2012 due to strong issues with the business end of the music industry. But none of that matters now as Fripp writes in one sentence a message that has me beyond excited: “The Seven-Headed Beast of Crim is in Go! mode.”
Welcome back, sir.
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It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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