Mud Island Ampitheatre Memphis United States

AUDIO SOURCE: Dat Soundboard

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A sedate start to Fripp's 12th gig on the G4 tour with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The concert is characterised by a sombre mood that ebb and flows, creating an air that is both melancholic and questioning. Though these soundscapes did little to win over the majority of the crowds who'd come to see their guitar heroes engaging in some traditional shredding, they provide some of Fripp’s most rewarding work of the period.

A slow-burning gig content to take its time with a series of slow advances and small regroupings, just as Space Music II appears to reach a climax of sorts, it veers into a moment suspended in time. The effect is stunning.

On the tour Fripp was sometimes joined by other musicians. On this occasion he is then joined by Mike Keneally, best known for his work with Frank Zappa and an eclectic solo career.

The tone Keneally uses evokes a younger Fripp; creating intense, rippling clusters;bending notes, plying them into emotive twists and turns that pull at the head and heart. It's a skillful blending of the two players although there are times when it's akin to listening to the same guitarist thirty years apart.

Keneally is clearly an admirer of Fripp’s work, and it turns out the feeling is mutual. "Mike Keneally was able to solo over [Soundscapes] in a way I have never been able to achieve for myself. He gave me answers to questions I had felt for myself, but never had the courage or capacity to find an answer".

The wonderfully elegiac Terror, Dread and Celebration provides a beautiful, if typically oblique, finish to the concert.

DGM engineer, Alex Mundy notes that Robert has written on the Dat tape from which this concert is taken “This may be the debut of Space Music, as such.” Alex goes on to say “Robert listened to it on 7 Jan 1999, and has given it a red Star (which at the time meant he liked it) and also has written “Yes! Yes!””
Mud Island Ampitheatre Memphis United States

AUDIO SOURCE: Dat Soundboard

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TRACK
TIME
01
Space Wind
02:46
02
Space Music I
09:46
03
Space Wind Hover
02:27
04
Acceptance Affirming
06:41
05
Bell Threshold
00:50
06
Space Music II
09:15
07
Hover
05:43
08
Dream Space
08:27
09
Keneally
18:13
10
Terror Dread And Celebration
10:17
11
End Vector
01:12
Written by Alan Feher
KENEALLY
5 stars "Silence is a distant echo of the approach of the Muse."-Robert Fripp Space symphonic music achieved with a processed electric guitar plus loops, played as environmental music between Robert Fripp´s collaborations with other quiet more famous disciples, this being the 12th gig on the G4 tour with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Kenny Wayne Shepherd. None of these guys except for Fripp of course, participate in this 2015 "KENEALLY", but Mike Keneally (featured here in PA ) does. Out of ...
Written by Jeremy Keens
Frippertronics meets Soundscpe
One of the many pleasures of this site is finally hearing the 1980s Frippertronics concerts: we had bought GSTQ, UHM and heard the loops & read that there were solos over these. The great work combining Loop&Solo is a boon. What’s that got to do with this? Well, a complaint which could be made about soundscapes, particularly in the 90s was the lack of guitarsounds: you can see why guitar-boys (&girls) at a G3 concert might be discombobulated by a guy sitting at a rack and heari...
Written by Charles Stack
Soundscapes with Mike Keneally
I’m VERY pleased to see some archival recordings of Bob Fripp and Mike Keneally from their 1997 tour together! I saw this show in Chicago, and was just stunned to see Mike (who was dressed very oddly, wearing a tall "Cat in the Hat" style hat) jamming alongside RF during the opening "Soundscapes" prelude. I agree completely with Bob that Mike effectively captured the essence of a younger Fripp, who himself inspired Mike in his youth. Mike effectively channeled Bob’s solo techniques of ...
Written by Kevin Letts
Memphis Blues
I too was drawn to this download by the potential thrill of hearing what former "stunt guitarist" Michael Keneally could do in a Soundscape situation. Although his contributions are a little lost in the mix at times, I was not disappointed.However, the whole performance is stunning, one of best Soundscapes I’ve heard in a long time and certainly THE best I’ve heard from a G3 concert. Robert has often stated that Soundscapes are about responding to the environment in which they are performed....
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