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3.85 | 66 ratings | 3 reviews | 21% 5 stars Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection Write a review Buy ROBERT FRIPP Music from Progarchives.com partners

Studio Album, released in 1991 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Listen (0:47) 2. Eye Of The Needle (2:57) 3. Askesis (2:07) 4. Bicycling To Afghanistan (3:00) 5. Here Comes My Sweetie (0:47) 6. An Easy Way (2:16) 7. Scaling The Whales (2:36) 8. The Moving Force (1:50) 9. A Connecticut Yankee In The Court Of King Arthur (2:27) 10. This Yes (2:08) 11. Are You Abel? (Ready And Able To Rock 'n' Roll) (1:15) 12. Spasm For Juanita (2:14) 13. Hard Times (2:40) 14. Burning Siesta (1:22) 15. Empty Magazine (1:50) 16. Circulation (2:24) 17. Chiara (1:09) 18. Asturias (3:19) 19. Ease God's Sorrow (1:49) Total time 38:57 Line-up / Musicians - Robert Fripp / guitar, producer AND - "The League of Crafty Guitarists" (students of Guitar Craft IX course): Bert Lams, Curt Golden, David Pittaway, Guido Ernst, Hernan Nunez*, Hideyo Moriya, Nigel Gavin, Paul Richards, Pietro Russino, Ralph Gorga, Steve Ball, Steve Jolemore, Tobin Buttram, Tony Geballe, Trey Gunn, Victor McSurely / guitar With: - Patricia Leavitt / vocals (1,5,10,15,19) - Cathy Stevens / viola (8) Releases information Artwork: Steve Ball @ Bill Smith Studio LP Editions EG ‎- EEG 2102-1 (1991, UK) CD Editions EG ‎- EEG 2102-2 (1991, Europe/US) Thanks to gboland for the addition and to Quinino for the last updates Edit this entry

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Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(21%)

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This is a very nice album from Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists, a collection of students from Fripp's guitar craft course, where he took guitar players of all different levels, and molded them in his image. In this case, that's not such a bad thing.

The album is a set of mostly short, lush acoustic guitar pieces, all in a similar style to what Fripp had been playing in the eighties and early nineties: complex pieces, based on individual guitars playing somewhat repetitive lines in different timesignatues, so that different sections of each instrument's part comes together at different times, creating almost hypnotic patterns. And this recording is a beautiful example of that effect.

And no one played Frippertronics!

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