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Topic: Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Subject: Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 05:58
The forthcoming Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins album was added as a King Crimson album, which I strongly disagree with. The album is a "ProjeKct", but does that make it "King Crimson" too? Discuss.

I'm reading Fripp's blog on a regular basis and he never referrs to the album in any other way than "Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins". Also, judging by the first released single, the music is not similar to KC, but sounds more like a Canterbury-flavoured Crossover prog.

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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 06:50
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

the music is not similar to KC, but sounds more like a Canterbury-flavoured Crossover prog.


Few King Crimson albums are "similar" to King Crimson.  Each lineup has a new sound, which to me makes them a prime example of Eclectic prog.


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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 06:55
Yes but IMO this music doesn't sound like any of the ways KC have sounded in the past. So the question is "is this a new KC sound"? Fripp says it's related to KC, from the same "gene pool" to quote him, so IMO that's not enough. 


Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 07:13
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Yes but IMO this music doesn't sound like any of the ways KC have sounded in the past. So the question is "is this a new KC sound"? Fripp says it's related to KC, from the same "gene pool" to quote him, so IMO that's not enough. 


I have no idea.

Is there a difference between King Crimson and "projekts?"


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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 08:34
^ Essential question. I don't know the answer. Embarrassed I've heard that the Projekcts are improvisations (hence certainly different to what you can hear on proper KC albums), but done by actual KC line-ups that we know from canonical KC releases. But we'll need expert opinion on this... 


Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 08:40
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

^ Essential question. I don't know the answer. Embarrassed I've heard that the Projekcts are improvisations (hence certainly different to what you can hear on proper KC albums), but done by actual KC line-ups that we know from canonical KC releases. But we'll need expert opinion on this... 


Oh, so like "Moonchild" and "Providence?"

Wink Tongue


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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 13:09
Mojo magazine this month reviewed it as a the trio, rather than a KC Projeckt.

I think the Projeckts should remain within the KC discography, as they are so closely related. However, this probably belongs as a separate entry, in much the same way that the Fripp collaborations with Eno & etc do.


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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 13:22
ProjeKcts, as done in the late 90s, consist of fraKctalizations of the double trio. The spin-offs then go off and do improvised material as discrete entities. I would argue for isolating the ProjeKcts away from the main KC page, just as, say, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe aren't under Yes. Similarly, this new 'ProjeKct' should gets its own page in the vein of Fripp and Eno or Giles Giles and Fripp.

That is, of course, unless someone mucks it up just as they did by sticking the Fripp/Sylvian stuff all over the place Ermm


Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 13:35
Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

ProjeKcts, as done in the late 90s, consist of fraKctalizations of the double trio. The spin-offs then go off and do improvised material as discrete entities. I would argue for isolating the ProjeKcts away from the main KC page, just as, say, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe aren't under Yes. Similarly, this new 'ProjeKct' should gets its own page in the vein of Fripp and Eno or Giles Giles and Fripp.

That is, of course, unless someone mucks it up just as they did by sticking the Fripp/Sylvian stuff all over the place Ermm

Clearly, there is a rational argument for both scenarios.

I would suggest that this be considered carefully by the appropriate team. I would not have a problem with Projeckts being inside or outside the KC "family" to be honest.


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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 14:24
It is a de facto King Crimson album. If we want to be really pedantic about it, hen mark all the Projeckts under different names.

BTW, the album cover says "A King Crimson Projeckt"


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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 14:30
Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

It is a de facto King Crimson album. If we want to be really pedantic about it, hen mark all the Projeckts under different names.

BTW, the album cover says "A King Crimson Projeckt"

I wasn't aware of that. Leave it as it is is my final vote, thenLOL


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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 14:43
Thanks for the comments guys. Yes, this is a ProjeKct indeed. Fripp also says it:

Originally posted by Fripp Fripp wrote:

Unexpectedly, the JJ & RF project became a ProjeKct, via JF&C and JF&C with L&H. Unexpected, but not surprising given the Crimson gene pool. And, for the first time since 1981, there is more English in the genes than American, in the ratio 4:1.

This unexpectedness is welcome: it suggests there is more going on than could be predicated merely on what has gone before. And yet, once here, there is familiarity; like meeting a close member of the family for the first time, one whose education & upbringing was elsewhere & outside the family town. If we were looking for precedent, such as while arguing for a particular Crimson line of development with former manager SG Alder Esq. of EG, this might be along the lines of song-based Crimson; in distinction to a developing Crimson instrumentality after 1972 with Larks’, Fracture, Red and onto Discipline et al. Songs are always problematic because they come with both lyricists and singers, sometimes the functions combined. That a given, I enjoy playing with good singers more than anything.


That doesn't make it a King Crimson album though - and my feeling is that the justification for this one being on the KC page is weaker than for previous projekcts.


Posted By: T.Rox
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 17:18
Would we be better served by giving KC ProjeKcts its own entry to give a degree of separation from pure KC and the project work?

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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: May 26 2011 at 22:31
It's not a KING CRIMSON album as far as i'm concerned even if the artwork looks like it is. I think if it was it would say KING CRIMSON without the "Projeckts" part added on.Just an opinion.

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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: May 29 2011 at 07:42
I was just coming to request that to avoid confusion the phrase "A King Crimson ProjeKct"  or rather the trio's name "Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins" be added in parentheses to the title. Perhaps in the perfect world it would read "A Scarcity of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct by Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins)".

All About Jazz refers to it just by the trio name:  http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=39550" rel="nofollow - http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=39550  Quote from Fripp: "It has the Crimson gene," he says, "but is not quite KC." 


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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 29 2011 at 08:58
Why would we exclude this Projekct when we have two other Projekct albums included in KC's discog?
Both Projekct 2 and Projekct X have albums listed here.
What you could do is put (King Crimson Projekct) next to the title to elaborate why it is listed here. 


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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: May 29 2011 at 09:07
In my opinion it's better leave it under KC. 
New entry "King Crimson ProjeKcts" will lead to new duplications. Believe me, one day somebody will add these ProjeKcts to KC discography. Smile


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Posted By: Bonnek
Date Posted: May 31 2011 at 16:37
Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Why would we exclude this Projekct when we have two other Projekct albums included in KC's discog?
Both Projekct 2 and Projekct X have albums listed here.
What you could do is put (King Crimson Projekct) next to the title to elaborate why it is listed here. 


I was gonna say that
I'm so sloooow Stern Smile



Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: May 31 2011 at 17:37
Originally posted by Bonnek Bonnek wrote:

Originally posted by Andyman1125 Andyman1125 wrote:

Why would we exclude this Projekct when we have two other Projekct albums included in KC's discog?
Both Projekct 2 and Projekct X have albums listed here.
What you could do is put (King Crimson Projekct) next to the title to elaborate why it is listed here. 


I was gonna say that
I'm so sloooow Stern Smile


LOL we're just on the same brainwave


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Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Date Posted: June 01 2011 at 09:30

There is  a long interview and explanation in # 17 of Classic Rock Presents Prog. I have yet to read it though. But this new album is presented as Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins in that feature.

I am far from being a KC expert so I don't know. 



Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: June 02 2011 at 02:24
The other ProjeKcts have the project nature mentioned in the album title, I'd really like this to be that way as well. People are being misled with the current title, a review just came up which talks about it as a legitimate KC album, which by all accounts it is not.

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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: June 02 2011 at 07:12
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

In my opinion it's better leave it under KC. 
New entry "King Crimson ProjeKcts" will lead to new duplications. Believe me, one day somebody will add these ProjeKcts to KC discography. Smile

And you will be there to delete them. You really shouldn't avoid doing something because of the chance someone may idiotically screw it up later.

It seems logical to me that if it wasn't released as King Crimson it shouldn't be under King Crimson. I think it's unlikely that someone will add duplicates later because even the noobiest of n00bs would stop and think for a moment that our King Crimson discography is probably complete, but even if someone did, deleting them will not be a Sisyphean task. 


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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: June 02 2011 at 10:34
Originally posted by Pekka Pekka wrote:

The other ProjeKcts have the project nature mentioned in the album title, I'd really like this to be that way as well. People are being misled with the current title, a review just came up which talks about it as a legitimate KC album, which by all accounts it is not.


Perfectly agreed. I edited the album to include the whole information.

RYM has the album under http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/jakko_jakszyk__robert_fripp_and_mel_collins" rel="nofollow - Jakko Jakszyk, Robert Fripp & Mel Collins , AllMusic under King Crimson and Wikipedia as "an album by Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins, as A http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Crimson" rel="nofollow - King Crimson ProjeKct". Wacko


EDIT

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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: June 02 2011 at 17:49
Originally posted by Henry Plainview Henry Plainview wrote:

 
And you will be there to delete them. You really shouldn't avoid doing something because of the chance someone may idiotically screw it up later.

It seems logical to me that if it wasn't released as King Crimson it shouldn't be under King Crimson. I think it's unlikely that someone will add duplicates later because even the noobiest of n00bs would stop and think for a moment that our King Crimson discography is probably complete, but even if someone did, deleting them will not be a Sisyphean task. 

I hope I'll be there, but my experience on this site tells me that duplications are almost guaranteed.
By the way, if duplications have reviews deleting them is like a Sisyphean task. Nobody, even mighty admins, can move reviews. 


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Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 02:44
 
Originally posted by NotAProghead NotAProghead wrote:

 I hope I'll be there, but my experience on this site tells me that duplications are almost guaranteed.
By the way, if duplications have reviews deleting them is like a Sisyphean task. Nobody, even mighty admins, can move reviews.

Well I have to imagine that Max could move a review if he really wanted to ;-), but you can always just delete the review and PM them the text for reposting, since it is unlikely more than one or two reviews would get into the duplicate before someone noticed.

I'm not saying that I'm certain it will not inconvenience anyone in the future, but I think logic for everybody else is far more important than a few stupid people doing stupid things. 


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Posted By: NotAProghead
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 04:42
It's what we usually do. Things get worse if the reviewer does not visit PA anymore.

I love logic, but those few people you've mentioned are always here. Wink If Projekcts will be a separate entry, be so.


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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: June 03 2011 at 14:14
I'm in agreement with H.Ro.
 
There would be no problem moving the album, and the reviews would go with it OK.
 
What sub-genre would they be added to though?
 
 



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