One of the fundamental albums by the King, and one I'm particularly fond of, was something I immersed myself in when I was 15-16 years old. I listened to "Elephant Talk" on repeat; I had never heard such a lively and passionate track, so engaging, and if you will, "pop" yet so bizarre, eccentric, and original. And Belew's pachyderm-guitar! What a joy to listen to it, what a brilliant song. Even today, it remains one of their strong pieces in my view, along with many others from this album: "Matte Kudasai" with those new sounds that transform the usual instruments to create music with ancient suggestions while pushing it into modernity, in "The Sheltering Sky" or the Frippian urban neurosis of the outbursts in "Indiscipline" or in "Thela Hun Ginjeet". A crazy album. The cerebral nature that can evoke emotions. Thank goodness Fripp and Belew met, after chasing each other with their almost parallel collaborations with Bowie first and Capocce Parlanti later.
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