What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to sit back (perhaps with a seasonal snifter of sherry?) and enjoy this sip-sized rendition of Silent Night Frippertronics style.
Originally released as a flexi-disc with the Chicago based magazine Praxis 3 in 1979, it also did the rounds as an aural Christmas card from EG Records.
It seems likely, given everything that’s happened since 1979 that RF is probably not on the EG Christmas card list nowadays.
This track is available for download as part of a bumper collection of Mr Stormy's Monday Selections - his first year of random romps through the murky, cavernous DGM archives, torch in hand, fedora upon his head.
This track is now available for download as part of a bumper collection of Mr Stormy's Monday Selections - his first year of random romps through the murky, cavernous DGM archives, torch in hand, fedora upon his head.
What better way to get into the Christmas spirit than to sit back (perhaps with a seasonal snifter of sherry?) and enjoy this sip...
It’s a quaint period piece that dances around the basic melody of the carol. Although shorter in time than one would like, the basic synopsis of the song shines through among the ’blips and dronings’ of Fripertronics. It’s a great piece of seasonal Frippery - a ’must have’ for your Holiday library!
Written by Stefano Marano
Hi Robert, Great rarity !!! Haapy news year from Italy ! Stefano
Written by Kevin Letts
Silent Night a la Fripp
Wow! Thanks for this.I’d long heard about RF’s "Silent Night" in collectors’ listings, but hitherto it proved as elusive as the proverbial hen’s teeth or rocking horse doody!My 1980 copy of "Volume: The International Discography of the New Wave"[!] tells me that "Silent Night a la Frippertronics" (as it was called) was originally on a RED flexidisc (102579X5) given away with the Vol.1, No.2, December 1979 edition of "Praxis Magazine" and, as you mention, was also sent out as a Christmas ...
Wow! Thanks for this.I’d long heard about RF’s "Silent Night" in collectors’ listings, but hitherto it proved as elusive as the proverbial hen’s teeth or rocking horse doody!My 1980 copy of "Volume: The International Discography of the New Wave"[!] tells me that "Silent Night a la Frippertronics" (as it was called) was originally on a RED flexidisc (102579X5) given away with the Vol.1, No.2, December 1979 edition of "Praxis Magazine" and, as you mention, was also sent out as a Christmas card (1979) by EG Management in a folded sleeve/card. Does anyone know what the ’packaging’ looked like for either of these versions?Robert’s listing in the aforementioned publication goes on to describe him thus:"Robert Fripp... Ex KING CRIMSON gtr, collaborator, producer. Now working in parallel veins [sic] w/his tape loop electronics and a dance band called THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN..."