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King Crimson: In the Wake of Poseidon

 A l b u m   D e t a i l s


Label: Virgin Records
Released: 1970.02.07
Time:
 40:56
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): Robert Fripp, Peter Sinfield
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.king-crimson.com
Appears with: Robert Fripp, Tony Levin
Purchase date: 2001.03.20
Price in €: 10,99



 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Peace/A Beginning (R.Fripp/P.Sinfield) - 0:50
[2] Pictures of a City (R.Fripp/P.Sinfield) - 8:01
[3] Cadence and Cascade (R.Fripp/P.Sinfield) - 4:37
[4] In the Wake of Poseidon ["Including Libra's Theme"] (R.Fripp/P.Sinfield) - 7:56
[5] Peace - A Theme (R.Fripp) - 1:15
[6] Cat Food (R.Fripp/I.McDonald/P.Sinfield) - 4:55
[7] The Devil's Triangle (R.Fripp) - 11:34
[8] Peace/An End (R.Fripp/P.Sinfield) - 1:52

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Robert Fripp - Guitar, Director, Keyboards, Mellotron, Devices
Keith Tippett - Piano, Keyboards
Gordon Haskell - Bass, Vocals
Greg Lake - Bass, Vocals
Mel Collins - Flute, Saxophone
Michael Giles - Drums, Vocals
Peter Giles - Bass

Peter Sinfield - Director, Lyricist, Design, Paintings
Robbin Thompson - Engineer
Jeff - Engineer
Tony - Engineer
Robin Thompson - Engineer

Tammo de Jongh - Cover Painting: "12 Archetypes"

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


1970 CD EG EGCD-2
1970 CS EG EGMC-2
1970 LP Atlantic 8266
2000 CD Plan 9/Caroline 1503
2000 CD Caroline 1503
2000 CD Import 1422
2001 CD Virgin 8 48948



King Crimson opened 1970 scarcely in existence as a band, having lost two key members (Ian McDonald and Michael Giles), with a third (Greg Lake) about to leave. Their second album — largely composed of Robert Fripp's songwriting and material salvaged from their stage repertory ("Pictures of a City" and "The Devil's Triangle") — is actually better produced and better sounding than their first. Surprisingly, Fripp's guitar is not the dominant instrument here: The Mellotron, taken over by Fripp after McDonald's departure — and played even better than before — still remains the band's signature. The record doesn't tread enough new ground to precisely rival In the Court of the Crimson King. Fripp, however, has made an impressive show of transmuting material that worked on stage ("Mars" aka "The Devil's Triangle") into viable studio creations, and "Cadence and Cascade" may be the prettiest song the group ever cut. "The Devil's Triangle", which is essentially an unauthorized adaptation of "Mars, Bringer of War" from Gustav Holst's The Planets, was later used in an eerie Bermuda Triangle documentary of the same name. In March of 2000, Caroline and Virgin released a 24-bit digitally remastered job that puts the two Mellotrons, Michael Giles' drums, Peter Giles' bass, and even Fripp's acoustic guitar and Keith Tippett's acoustic piano practically in the lap of the listener.

Bruce Eder, All-Music Guide



Ein Jahr nach dem Nummer-eins-Debütalbum der King Crimson stellte Boss und Gitarrist Robert Fripp 1970 bereits eine neue Mannschaft auf. Neben dem kongenialen Texter und Covergestalter Pete Sinfield spielte Sänger Greg Lake den Bass, Mike Giles noch das Schlagzeug, Peter Giles bisweilen den Bass, Keith Tippett das Klavier, Mel Collins Saxofon und Flöte, und Gordon Haskell sang dazu. Die Leichtfüßigkeit war auf In The Wake Of Poseidon mit Ausnahme der von den Beatles inspirierten Nummer "Cat Food" mit Tippetts verspielten Pianoläufen verschwunden, die heute erstaunlich ähnlich wie "Caterpillar" von Cure klingt. Die Band verwob Klassik- und Jazzelemente mit Rock zu wuchtigen, bisweilen etwas schwerfälligen Klängen, tobte sich in instrumentalen Improvisationen nach dem Versmaß klassischer Kompositionen aus. Der Live-Charakter rückte für die impressionistischen Studioexperimente mit Apparatur und Klang in den Hintergrund, für bombastische Soundszenarien, die akustische Balladen an die Wand drückten. Dafür brillierte Fripp auf der Gitarre, setzte sich mit seiner Fingerfertigkeit auf "Peace - A Beginning" mit energischer Hektik gegen die Übermacht der Bläser durch. Ein Frühwerk der Crossover-Abteilung "Cosmic-Classic-Rock".

Ingeborg Schober, Amazon.de
 

 L y r i c s


PEACE - A BEGINNING

I am the ocean
Lit by the flame
I am the mountain
Peace is my name
I am the river
Touched by the wind
I am the story
I never end.


PICTURES OF A CITY including 42nd at Treadmill

Concrete cold face cased in steel
Stark sharp glass-eyed crack and peel
Bright light scream beam brake and squeal
Red white green white neon wheel.

Dream flesh love chase perfumed skin
Greased hand teeth hide tinseled sin
Spice ice dance chance sickly grin
Pasteboard time slot sweat and spin.

Blind stick blind drunk cannot see
Mouth dry tongue tied cannot speak
Concrete dream flesh broken shell
Lost soul lost trace lost in hell.


CADENCE AND CASCADE

Cadence and Cascade
Kept a man named Jade;
Cool in the shade
While his audience played.
Purred, whispered, "Spend us too:
We only serve for you".

Sliding mystified
On the wine of the tide
Stared pale-eyed
As his veil fell aside.
Sad paper courtesan
They found him just a man.

Caravan hotel
Where the sequin spell fell
Custom of the game.
Cadence oiled in love
Licked his velvet gloved hand
Cascade kissed his name.

Sad paper courtesan
They knew him just a man.


IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON including Libra's Theme

Plato's spawn cold ivyed eyes
Snare truth in bone and globe.
Harlequins coin pointless games
Sneer jokes in parrot's robe.
Two women weep, Dame Scarlet Screen
Sheds sudden theatre rain,
Whilst dark in dream the Midnight Queen
Knows every human pain.

In air, fire, earth and water
World on the scales.
Air, fire, earth and water
Balance of change
World on the scales
On the scales.

Bishop's kings spin judgement's blade
Scratch "Faith" on nameless graves.
Harvest hags Hoard ash and sand
Rack rope and chain for slaves
Who fireside fear fermented words
Then rear to spoil the feast;
Whilst in the aisle the mad man smiles
To him it matters least.

Heroes hands drain stones for blood
To whet the scaling knife.
Magi blind with visions light
Net death in dread of life.
Their children kneel in Jesus till
They learn the price of nail;
Whilst all around our mother earth
Waits balanced on the scales.


PEACE - A THEME

(Instrumental)


CAT FOOD

Lady Supermarket with an apple in her basket
Knocks in the manager's door;
Grooning to the muzak from a speaker in shoe rack
Lays out her goods on the floor;
Everything she's chosen is conveniently frozen.
"Eat it and come back for more!"

Lady Window Shopper with a new one in the hopper
Whips up a chemical brew;
Croaking to a neighbour while she polishes a sabre
Knows how to flavour a stew.
Never need to worry with a tin of 'Hurri Curri':
"Poisoned especially for you!"

No use to complain
If you're caught out in the rain;
Your mother's quite insane.
Cat food  cat food  cat food  again.

Lady Yellow Stamper with a fillet in a hamper
Dying to finish the course;
Goodies for the table with a fable on the label
Drowning in miracle sauce.
Don't think I am that rude if I tell you that it's cat food,
"Not even fit for a horse!"


THE DEVIL'S TRIANGLE

(Instrumental)


MERDAY MORN

(Instrumantal)


HAND OF SCEIRON

(Instrumantal)


GARDEN OF WORM

(Instrumental)


PEACE - AN END

Peace is a word
Of the sea and the wind.
Peace is a bird who sings
As you smile.
Peace is the love
Of a foe as a friend;
Peace is the love you bring
To a child

Searching for me
You look everywhere,
Except beside you.
Searching for you
You look everywhere,
But not inside you.

Peace is a stream
From the heart of a man;
Peace is a man, whose breadth
Is the dawn.
Peace is a dawn
On a day without end;
Peace is the end, like death
Of the war.

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