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What Rough Beast? – King Crimson Returns to Touring
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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ~ Yeats
The beast stirs from fitful sleep, opening voluminous eyes – slowly becomes upright. This beast, this Crimson beast, is awake and ready.
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Master bassist Tony Levin and his Stick Fingers.
What instruments? What batterie? What music?
In this world, a fourth world, normal is abnormal, expectation is shattered, all bets are on and off, time past-present-future is both linear and spiraled.
This is no polite English tea party. Hell’s bells, boys. This is Crimson, King Crimson.
This is a band that wants to melt your face, fracture your skull, then suddenly lead you to restrained introspection, delicate chamber interplay, nuance, color and light.
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Master percussionist, Pat Mastelotto.
This is a band where a man plays his electric bass with sticks attached to his fingers, where exotic percussion instruments are scraped, swiped and sticked by three drummers. A band whose blue-flame serpentine guitars announce, with all the vigor of St. John’s Revelations, the dawning apocalypse.
To this mix, we add woodwinds of all shape, size and sound.
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Master guitarist, Robert Fripp.
But you say, “This is trickery! The deception of the thrush! All is preplanned, informed and overly considered. This is merely the wizard’s art: slight-of-hand, frippery and rehearsed spectacle!”
Nay.
Not even The Wizard Priest knows what will happen. This band exists in the moment, the precise moment – the moving razor’s edge of music. Crimson improvisations are not the solo-over-the-known-and-carefully-charted-chord-progression species, but the whole band creating a collective once-in-a-moment music. What you hear at a Crimson concert is a unique incarnation, a creation only found in that time and that place. Time is both linear and spiraled.
This is why KC fans are buying tickets and extra dates are being added. This is why shows are selling out. Because in today’s world of autotune stars, lipsyncing and prerecorded tracks, listeners want something real. Something daring – live without a net.
No other band comes close to this high-wire act. Go see them.
with KING CRIMSON Canada 2015 Nov 13 Palais Montcalm / Quebec Nov 14 Palais Montcalm / Quebec Nov 16 Theatre St. Denis / Montreal Nov 17 Theatre St. Denis / Montreal Nov 19 Queen Elizabeth Theatre / Toronto Nov 20 Queen Elizabeth Theatre / Toronto Nov 21 Queen Elizabeth Theatre / Toronto Nov 24 Jack Singer Concert Hall / Calgary Nov 26 Vogue Theatre / Vancouver Nov 27 Vogue Theatre / Vancouver Nov 29 Royal Theatre / Victoria
with KING CRIMSON Japan 2015 Dec 7 Bunkamura Orchard Hall / Tokyo Dec 8 Bunkamura Orchard Hall / Tokyo Dec 9 Bunkamura Orchard Hall / Tokyo Dec 10 Bunkamura Orchard Hall / Tokyo Dec 12 Festival Hall / Osaka Dec 13 Festival Hall / Osaka Dec 21 Century Hall / Nagoya
Maestro André Raphel who served as music director of the WSO from 2003-2018, will be taking the podium once again at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling on Thursday May 15 to conduct La Valse by Maurice Ravel, to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the WSO as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ravel.
This week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage will kick off a fresh new Spring season of live music from the Mountain State of West Virginia. This week's episode was recorded on Dec. 1, 2024 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV with Stephen Kellogg, Jill Sobule, Mindy Smith, Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters, and The David Mayfield Parade.
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This week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded on the campus of West Virginia University (WVU) at the Canady Creative Arts Center. Joining us on this episode is Ruthie Foster, Charlie Mars, The Wandering Hearts, Fellow Pynins, Rebecca Porter and guest host David Mayfield.