This
3CD/1Blu-Ray set features over three and a half hours of material
performed during King Crimson's five night residency at Teatro
Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017 plus audio extras. The Blu-Ray
contains over two hours of multi-camera HD recorded footage, audio
soundtrack in 24/48 LPCM, hi-res stereo and 5.1 DTS HD-MA (with 'picture
off' mode allowing the music to be heard independently in lossless
audio).
Meltdown in Mexico includes, for the first time with this line-up, audio recordings of “Breathless,” “Discipline,” “Moonchild” and Tony and Jeremy's nightly Cadenza improvs. Mixed by King Crimson member Bill Rieflin from full multi track recordings.
Meltdown in Mexico includes, for the first time with this line-up, audio recordings of “Breathless,” “Discipline,” “Moonchild” and Tony and Jeremy's nightly Cadenza improvs. Mixed by King Crimson member Bill Rieflin from full multi track recordings.
King Crimson is
a band that continues to defy conventional expectations. As listeners
to last year's rush-released official bootleg from June 2017 recorded in
Chicago discovered, this band gets better by the year. Given the amount
of rehearsals, practicing, constantly expanding repertoire base (nearly
six hours' worth of material ready to select from on any given night),
wealth of experience among musicians, technicians/sound crew, more
comfortable traveling arrangements, better PA systems/mixing desks &
the fact that the band is playing, for the most part, in purpose built
theatres rather than the more imaginatively named but sonically
challenged venues that hosted rock gigs in previous decades, this should
come as no surprise. But it does. Perhaps it’s still part of the Rock
'n' Roll myth – the “hope I die before I get old” thought process that
seems forever associated with rock music that's proved so difficult to
alter. Whatever the reason, the concept of a band maturing, re-inventing
itself and being able to present music from a lengthy history in
recognizable but ever-changing ways, still with same sense of wonder as
if it were newly-written, remains, if not unique, certainly notable.
A few weeks after the Chicago concert, the first part of 2017's tour
reached its final destination – five nights of concerts in Mexico City.
All of the concerts were recorded and filmed with a view to issuing a
definitive document of Crimson live in 2017 and Meltdown is the result of that process. With over two hours of HD filmed performance and three hours of audio, Meltdown offers a comprehensive overview of a band at the very peak of its performing ability.
King Crimson's Meltdown in Mexico will be released on September 28th and will be distributed by Amped Distribution.
Pre-order from: Inner Knot (US) https://shop.schizoidshop.com/
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