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King Crimson

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2018 - Meltdown: Live in Mexico
2017 - The Elements: 2017 Tour Box
2017 - Live in Vienna
2017 - Live in Chicago
2016 - Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind
2016 - The Elements: 2016 Tour Box
2016 - Live in Toronto
2015 - The Elements: 2015 Tour Box
2014 - The Elements: 2014 Tour Box
2012 - Live In Argentina, 1994
2011 - Live in Toronto – June 24, 1974
2011 - Live in New Haven, CT – November 16, 2003
2008 - The Collectable King Crimson, Volume Three: Live at the Shep
2008 - Live at the Pier, New York – August 2, 1982
2005 - Live in Heidelberg - March 29, 1974
2005 - Live at the Wiltern: July 1, 1995
2003 - The Power to Believe
2002 - Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With
2001 - Live in Mainz: March 30, 1974
2000 - The ConstruKction of Light
2000 - Live in Central Park, NYC
1999 - The VROOOM Sessions
1999 - The Beat Club, Bremen 1972
1999 - Cirkus: The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson Live
1998 - Live at the Marquee 1969
1998 - Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984
1998 - On Broadway 1995
1997 - The Nightwatch: Live at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw November
1997 - Epitaph, Volumes One & Two
1996 - THRaKaTTaK
1995 - THRAK
1995 - B'BOOM: Official Bootleg - Live in Argentina
1992 - The Great Deceiver
1984 - Three of a Perfect Pair
1982 - Beat
1981 - Discipline
1975 - USA
1974 - Starless and Bible Black
1974 - Red
1973 - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
1971 - Islands
1970 - In the Wake of Poseidon
1970 - Lizard
1969 - In the Court of the Crimson King: An Observation by King Cri

Members
4 Male

Origin
London, England, UK

Genre
Progressive Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

Mood
Energetic

Born

1969

Active
1969 to Present...

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Most Loved Tracks
5 users King Crimson - I Talk to the Wind
4 users King Crimson - Epitaph
4 users King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
4 users King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
4 users King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man


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Starless	Frame by Frame	Three of a Perfect Pair
Larks' Tongues in Aspi...	Larks' Tongues in Aspi...

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King Crimson are a rock band founded in London in 1968 by members from western England. Widely recognised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history (including jazz and folk music, classical and experimental music, psychedelic rock, hard rock and heavy metal, New Wave, gamelan, electronica and drum and bass). They have been influential on many contemporary musical artists and have gained a large following, despite garnering little radio or music video airplay.

Peter Sinfield, interviewed for Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements, described Crimson thus: "e had an Ethos in Crimson...we just refused to play anything that sounded anything like a Tin Pan Alley record. If it sounded at all popular, it was out. So it had to be complicated, it had to be more expansive chords, it had to have strange influences. If it sounded, like, too simple, we'd make it more complicated, we'd play it in 7/8 or 5/8, just to show off."

Though originating in England, King Crimson have had a mixture of English and American personnel since 1981. The band's line-up has persistently altered throughout their existence, with eighteen musicians and two lyricists passing through the ranks. The only musician to appear in every line-up of the band has been founding guitarist Robert Fripp, although drummer Bill Bruford was a member from 1972 to 1998 and guitarist Adrian Belew has been a consistent member since 1981.

The debut line-up of the band was influential but short-lived, lasting for just over one year. During 1970 and 1971, King Crimson were an unstable band, with many personnel changes and disjunctions between studio and live sound as they explored elements of jazz, funk and classical chamber music. By 1972 the band had a more stable line-up and developed an improvisational sound mingling hard rock, contemporary classical music, free jazz and jazz fusion before breaking up in 1974. They re-formed with a new line-up in 1981 for three years (this time influenced by new wave and gamelan music) before breaking up again for around a decade. Since reforming for the second time (in 1994), King Crimson have blended aspects of their 1980s and 1970s sound with influences from more recent musical genres such as industrial rock and grunge. The band’s efforts to blend additional elements into their music have continued into the 21st century, with more recent developments including drum and bass-styled rhythm loops and extensive use of MIDI and guitar synthesis.

King Crimson's existence has been characterised by regular periods of hiatus initiated by Robert Fripp, and their current status is ambiguous. Despite online diary posts from Fripp suggesting that he does not feel a powerful desire to work within the King Crimson context, he and other members continue to work within the context of related "ProjeKCts" (an ongoing succession of spin-offs from the main band initiated in 1997, of which the latest example is the song-based "Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins"). Fripp told the Financial Times in August 2012 that he has retired from music.


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