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"She danced so well that she bewitched everybody..."
She danced so well that she bewitched everybody... Music, at times, can also bewitch the listener, especially if there are (as intermediaries) the presences of the two great musicians Summers and Fripp who find themselves together again, after the album "I Advance Masked" (E.G 1982), with this completely instrumental work.
Surely the protagonists are precisely the two guitarists who present themselves with a work centered on the dialogue of the two guitars. In fact, the other musicians "limit" themselves to a role of accompaniment and refinement without affecting the basic structures. The musicians are: Chris.Childs (bass), Sara.Lee (bass), recruited years earlier by Fripp while she was playing in a Punk venue, she will also appear in the album "The League of Gentlemen", Paul.Beavis (drums), Chris.Winter (saxophones), Jesse.Lota (tablas). Moreover, the two guitarists also play: roland gr 700 and 300, jupiter 6 jx 3p synthesizers, msg 700 sequencer tr 909 drum machine.
The record was recorded between April and May of 1984 (at Arnie's Shack, England) and produced by Summers. The guitars are almost always electric and largely make use of arpeggio and pizzicato. The CD consists of ten pieces totaling about forty minutes. The start is not particularly brilliant, while "What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy" is a long, rather varied track, at times also interesting and technically valid, despite the simple rhythm section. Both in this track and in the following "Begin The Day," perhaps my favorite and more properly Rock, the famous long "Frippian" notes occasionally appear. Technically successful is also the title track, endowed with more oriental sounds. As the record progresses, the music becomes increasingly ethereal, almost intangible and more "blended," perhaps because the artistic harmony of the two musicians has reached its peak, this is my personal opinion regarding the tracks: "Maquillage," "Guide," "Forgotten Steps," and "Image and Likeness."
Essential is the booklet that contains some notes on the musicians and a delightful color photo of Fripp and Summers, with their hands in their pockets, taken on a beach. Quite decent is the abstract cover by Antoni Tàpies, titled "Tribe," just like a track on the record. An overall pleasant and well-packaged album but certainly not indispensable. Album rating: 3.5 out of 5 (stars).
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