Villa Soloria

“How are you so far? Happy? Happy with what you have to be happy with?” Belew asks these questions after a stomping Facts Of Life. For the audience, this show under the open skies of Florence is going well. On stage, in addition to having to actually play the material the performers have to also navigate their way around various equipment malfunctions, momentary clams where finger or foot is in the right place at the wrong time, and other external factors.

For example, in the first three numbers, Fripp’s sightlines are compromised by the distracting stare of a security guard whose gaze is fixed firmly in the direction of the guitarist. “When, eventually, he was persuaded to maintain security elsewhere, I was free to turn my fuller attention to the more musical aspects of performance,” Fripp noted in his diary at the time. Of course, there’s a rich irony in a person who is notionally there to safeguard the performance area ending up undermining it.]

Regardless of such issues, Larks’ Tongues IV here is on lethal form and Gunn’s solo on Thrush is a gem. That said, spare a thought for Fripp who notes, “my left foot continues to be mainly a numb experience, distant from the sensation of experiencing the presence of organic life within the human animal. Despite this, it is responsible for managing dual stereo volume pedals while the operator has almost no physical contact with the operation. Yow! as quadrophonic strings are asked to crescendo and diminuendo.”
TRACK
TIME
01
Introductory Soundscape
03:16
02
The Power To Believe I
00:42
03
Level Five
07:29
04
ProzaKc Blues
05:22
05
The ConstruKction Of Light
08:46
06
Facts Of Life
05:46
07
ELEKTRIK
07:46
08
The Power To Believe II
08:39
09
Dinosaur
06:15
10
One Time
06:49
11
Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With
03:53
12
Dangerous Curves
05:06
13
Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part IV
12:44
14
The Power To Believe III
08:25
15
Three Of A Perfect Pair
04:08
16
Elephant Talk
07:39
17
Red
06:22

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