King Crimson - Islands
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Artist: King CrimsonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-12-20
Music Label: Discipline Us
Soundtracks:
- Formentera Lady
- Sailor's Tale
- Letters
- Ladies of the Road
- Prelude: Song of the Gulls
- Islands
Free Music Notes for Islands
Free Music Review: I guess you had to be there
Hit: 5 Stars
It is gratifying to me to read so many reviews of KC by people who listened to them long after the albums first came out. If you put them into a contemporary context they have to be heard alongside everything that came after. Maybe that is why so many Amazon reviews don't get it?
For those of us who first listened to ISLANDS when it first came out it is the KC masterpiece, precisely because it doesn't conform to what you would expect of a rock album. There was nothing else like it. It alternated between music in the "classical" style, pastoral folk and grinding, gritty rock. Then there is Fripp's guitar - reason enough for some of us.
I know I'm getting old when someone says in a review that "Ladies of the Road" was brash and crude. Well Yes!!! Hello? That's the point. Confronting. Don't get too comfortable. Then I guess we baby boomers were not all that politically correct.
The music. "Formentera Lady" is obviously Eastern influenced (hints of Japanese flute) and captures an Eastern stillness in a jazzy web. "Sailor's Tale" is the kind of Fripp guitar magic many of us hung in there for album after album - stunningly intellegent modulations creating mystical soundscapes. "The Letters" is an intriguing piece of musical theatre much favoured by KC which makes me think they had their own ideas about caberet - dark and confronting. "Ladies of the Road" is a bitter-sweet satire of rock band mythology and often put me in mind of Joe Cocker's encounter with the "butter queen" in MAD DOGS and Joe's wry smile - part embarressment, part respectful joy.
The rest of the album slips away into the beautifully executed classicism of "Prelude: Song of the Gulls" (evocative, nostalgic - childhood by the sea), and then the title track: "Islands" - whistful, unexpectly quiet and still, taking us to unexpected places: peacefully. And yes, Mark Charig's cornet playing is lovely.
The whole is a wonderful creation but it may seem like a confused muddle to younger ears. It always made perfect sence to me.
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2004 reissue of the band's 1971 album. Discipline label.Pop Music CDs
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