King Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light (2000)

Year: 23 May 2000 (CD Sep 24, 2007)
Label: Discipline Global Mobile (Europe), DGM0514
Style: Progressive Rock, Avant-garde
Country: London, England
Time: 58:19
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 366 Mb

It is the first of two studio albums to feature the "double duo" line-up of Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto. It is the group's longest studio album and the only one not to chart in the United States.
In the late 1990s, drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Tony Levin left King Crimson, ending the "double trio" era documented on THRAK. For the first time in the group's history, Robert Fripp was the only Englishman in the lineup.
The Construkction of Light bears a sound similar to the "rock gamelan" 1980s incarnation of King Crimson, with Mastelotto primarily playing electronic drums and Belew, Gunn and Fripp often playing sophisticated, interlocking parts. However, the pace of these interlocking parts is often slower than it was in the 1980s, with Belew and Fripp often trading single notes back and forth in hocket.
The album also contains two sequels to instrumental pieces by 1970s incarnations of the band. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic – Part IV" continues the series of pieces started on Larks' Tongues in Aspic and continued on Three of a Perfect Pair. "FraKctured" began as a fifth entry in the "Larks" suite, but was renamed after being judged as more reminiscent of "Fracture" from Starless and Bible Black.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Construkction_of_Light)

01. ProzaKc Blues (05:28)
02. The ConstruKction of Light (05:49)
03. The ConstruKction of Light (02:50)
04. Into the Frying Pan (06:54)
05. FraKctured (09:06)
06. The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum (06:24)
07. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part IV (03:41)
08. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part IV (02:50)
09. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part IV (02:36)
10. Coda: I Have a Dream (04:51)
11. Heaven and Earth (07:46)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) & Robert Fripp (King Crimson) - Sacred Songs (1980)

Year: March 1980, Recorded: August 1977 (CD May 18, 1999)
Label: Buddha Records (US), 7446599604-2
Style: Rock, Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Country: U.S. (October 11, 1946) / England (16 May 1946)
Time: 52:31
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 356 Mb

Sacred Songs is the first solo album by American singer/songwriter Daryl Hall. It was produced by guitarist Robert Fripp, who also played on the album. Its chart debut was March 29, 1980.
The album was recorded in 1977, but RCA Records did not release it for three years. According to Nick Tosches, who wrote Dangerous Dances, the authorized biography of Hall & Oates, "RCA refused to release Sacred Songs on the grounds that it wasn't commercial" (p 85). When finally issued, the album sold well, but ultimately did not yield a hit single.
In the early 1970s, Hall had formed Hall & Oates, a partnership with guitarist/songwriter John Oates. They had produced several hit pop singles, but Hall had grown to feel artistically limited and in 1977 was much more concerned with expressing his own outlook on life and music than with making more hit songs.
Fripp had dissolved his group King Crimson in 1974, and after a sabbatical, returned to music with session work and other guest appearances.
According to the notes for the 1999 CD reissue of Sacred Songs, and to Eric Tamm's book-length study of Fripp's music, Hall and Fripp first met in 1974. Already familiar with one another's work, the duo felt an instant rapport, and planned to work together.
In 1977, Hall and Fripp reconnected while Hall was writing songs for his solo debut; Hall drafted Fripp as producer and guitarist. Hall wrote all the songs, except "Urban Landscape", (a 'Frippertronics' solo), and "NYCNY" for which Fripp wrote the music and Hall the lyrics, and which appeared also on Fripp's Exposure (1979) only with different lyrics as "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me but I've Had Enough of You".
Sacred Songs was recorded in a span of three weeks, with most of the songs initially recorded with Hall singing and playing piano alongside Fripp's guitar work, followed by overdubs by Hall & Oates' regular touring band. Hall insisted on working with his own band rather than with the Los Angeles session musicians who had played on Bigger Than Both of Us (1976), the previous fifth Hall & Oates album. Although the session players were uniformly excellent musicians, Hall felt their performances were hampered by a disconnectedness from the songs. The album was originally intended to be part of a loose trilogy of sorts with Peter Gabriel's 1978 second album and Fripp's Exposure (1979), all of which Fripp produced.
Besides Hall and Fripp, the backing band for the album consisted of bassist Kenny Passarelli, drummer Roger Pope, and guitarist Caleb Quaye, all of whom were then part of the second iteration of the Elton John Band, which had started recording and touring with John beginning in 1975.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Songs)

01. Sacred Songs (03:18)
02. Something In 4/4 Time (04:26)
03. Babs and Babs (07:50)
04. Urban Landscape (02:23)
05. Nycny (04:35)
06. The Parther Away I Am (02:53)
07. Why Was It So Easy (05:31)
08. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her (06:25)
09. Survive (06:41)
10. Without Tears (02:54)
11. You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette (bonus track) (02:20)
12. North Star (bonus track) (03:10)

UploadyIo     DailyUploads

All my files:     UploadyIo     DailyUploads     KatFile

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - In The Hot Seat (1994)

Year: 26 September 1994 (CD 1994)
Label: Victory Records (UK), 828 554-2
Style: Progressive rock, Symphonic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 71:33
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 433 Mb

The making of the album was complicated by health issues encountered by both keyboard player Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer. Emerson had trouble with the ulnar nerve, which made it difficult for him to control his right hand. As the prognosis for recovery after the surgical treatment was not promising, he had to overdub the right-hand parts with his left hand. Palmer suffered problems with carpal tunnel syndrome, which led to numbness in his fingers. He underwent surgery to correct the issue.
"Daddy" was written by Lake in memory of missing child Sara Anne Wood and was used to raise awareness of missing and abducted children. The royalties from the song initially brought in $5,000 and were donated to the Sara Anne Wood Rescue Center, a national non-profit foundation established by Wood's father.
"Street War" originated in summer 1988 sessions by Lake with Geoff Downes under the project name Ride the Tiger, but was reworked for this album by adding and rewriting lyrics and composing new music. Ride the Tiger was finally released in 2015.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Hot_Seat)

01. Hand Of Truth (05:22)
02. Daddy (04:42)
03. One By One (05:07)
04. Heart On Ice (04:19)
05. Thin Line (04:45)
06. Man In The Long Black Coat (04:12)
07. Change (04:43)
08. Give Me A Reason To Stay (04:14)
09. Gone Too Soon (04:11)
10. Street War (04:24)
11. Pictures At An Exhibition a. Promenade (01:45)
12. Pictures At An Exhibition b. The Gnome (02:07)
13. Pictures At An Exhibition c. Promenade (01:45)
14. Pictures At An Exhibition d. The Sage (03:10)
15. Pictures At An Exhibition e. The Hut Of Baba Yaga (01:16)
16. Pictures At An Exhibition f. The Great Gates Of Kiev (05:24)

UploadyIo

All my files:     UploadyIo     MexaShare     KatFile