King Crimson - Great Deceiver Vol 2 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

At first glance it may have seemed like overkill, 4 CDs of live unreleased material from only one of several of the King Crimson line-up covering a 9 month period of performing. THE GREAT DECEIVER helped define that approach afresh when issued in 1992 delighting some of that original audience along with an audience new to the material. 15 years on from that , with the music sounding as vital as ever, the set is reissued across twin 2 CD sets.

Crawling Up The Stairs is the sophomore album from Austin underground luminaries Pure X, re-issued on 180 gram vinyl by Fire Talk. The anticipated follow-up to debut 'Pleasure,' the new record places Nate Grace's ragged vocals upfront in the mix with more clearcut, refined production choices, while still imbued with the jagged sexual tension and undercurrent of catastrophe that has won them fans across the world. More accolades from the press followed, notably Pitchfork calling the record Inchsophisticated and self aware,Inch lending a further upward trajectory to the band's steadfast cult status. The duality of vocals from Grace and Jenkins for the first time evoke an even more enthralling immediacy to Pure X's continued evolution of their nightmarish visions, a spellbinding combination that will find appeal in old fans and new listeners alike.01. Crawling Up The Stairs 02. Someone Else 03. Written In The Slime 04.I Fear What I Feel 05. Things In My Head 06. Shadows And Lies 07. I Come From Nowhere 08. Never Alone 09. How Did You Find Me 10. Thousand Year Old Child 11. Rain At Dawn 12. All Of The Future (All Of The Past)

2CD set with new artwork, containing all the original diaries and notes from the original editions, this remains an essential recording. The 1973/74 touring line-up of King Crimson has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most dynamic, powerful, exciting live rock bands of that or any other era of rock's roughly half-century chronology. The Great Deceiver, originally issued in 1992 as a 4CD collection of some of those concerts, has earned a fine reputation as a definitive chronicle of the band in performance. At the time of there were about 120 bootleg recordings of King Crimson live concerts. While there was some duplication of shows trading under different names, the bulk of the recordings concentrated on this quartet line-up that became an enduring influence for a generation of musicians. But there was no official document of the live band. USA, the single vinyl album drawn from some of the band's final shows, had yet to be issued on CD. So the band's live reputation rested somewhere between those lucky concert attendees who'd seen them at the time & a variety of poor & worse copies of copies of recordings now being enshrined with all their faults on discs of dubious origin. Robert Fripp had an answer to this dilemma in the form of a series of live multi-track recordings from 1973/74.