ROBERT FRIPP & THE LEAGUE OF CRAFTY GUITARISTS - LIVE!

Those of you knowing of the Crafty League Of Guitarists (I know! ;-), will for sure know what to expect with this or any other albums since they all sound a bit the same. The least we can say is that RF&TLOCG are pretty consistent in their output, dishing what seems to the ever-eternal chord progressions.

The fact that this album is recorded live does not make all the more exciting and there is apparently no crowd (or it has been put to sleep right from the start) so everything indicates that this was a live series of guitar courses given somewhere in West Virginia. 18 guitarists (mostly acoustic) taking turns in playing different relatively slow moving variations (you love maths, this could be for you) somehow not too far from minimalism and a weird sort of new age. Only one track seems to be standing out of this record and it is the one where there is an electric guitar (one guess would be Fripp), the 9min+ The New World.

While this may be fascinating to those guitarists learning their craft, to the average proghead, this album as well as the vast majority of the others is really of no big interest. My rather severe rating here is by no means a quality judgment, but really this is for fans only.