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The Brondesbury Tapes
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曲目リスト
1 | Hypocrite (recorded at the Beacon Royal Hotel) |
商品の説明
UK compilation of pre-King Crimson domestic recordings which languished for over 30 years in a private collection. This is the first time these recordings have been available on CD & have been digitally remastered for this format, incorporating previously unreleased material. Over 70 minutes in length with sleeve notes by Peter Giles. 2001.
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- 製品サイズ : 26.11 x 16 x 1.09 cm; 100.07 g
- メーカー : Voiceprint
- EAN : 0604388306824
- 製造元リファレンス : VP235CD
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- ASIN : B00005LPUB
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上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
2012年7月13日に日本でレビュー済み
01年発表。本作はGG&Fが、アルバム『THE CHEERFUL INSANITY OF GILES GILES & FRIPP』を発表してからキング・クリムゾン結成に至るまでの録音を集めた発掘音源である。3人に加えてイアン・マクドナルド、そして当時の彼の彼女でもありフェアポート・コンヴンションのオリジナル・メンバーでもあったジュディ・ダイブル、そしてピート・シンフィールドらが徐々に加わっていく間に制作された楽曲は既に廃盤になって久しいキング・クリムゾンの編集盤『ア・ヤング・パーソンズ・ガイド・トゥ』で一曲だけ(「風に語りて」のデュディ・ダイブルのヴォーカル・バージョン)発表されていたが、この作品によってこの時期の音源がほぼ網羅された。楽曲的にも興味深いものが多く、先の「風に語りて」の他、初期のクリムゾンのレパートリーの一つにもなっていた9.(20.)やピート・シンフィールドが自身のソロ作で再演する11.(14.)なども含まれている。ちなみにブロンズベリーとはGG&Fのプライベート・スタジオ(自宅)のあった場所のことで、本作はタイトルそのままのそこにあった録音機材によるデモ音源が中心となっている。決して完璧な音源では無いが、先の楽曲以外にもマイケルのキレのいいドラムスが聞ける2.そしてフリップにしては珍しいトレモロ・ギターのソロとなる3.フルートとサックスがリードをとるほがらかなジャズ・インストの6.1st収録の再演(イアンのフル−ト入り)など聞き物は多い。一部にテープの保存状態の良くない音源も含まれるが、楽曲/演奏は水準以上で単なる資料と見てしまうにはおしい音源集である。
2008年11月19日に日本でレビュー済み
「Giles、Giles&Fripps」は、これは全く英国フォーク調の曲ばかりでおおよそCrimsonとかけ離れていた印象があったが、「Brondesbury Tapes」はCrimson結成直前の試作品でそれなりに移行期を窺わせる作品。「IN The Court Of The Crimson King 」における緊張感ある成長に改めて目を張る思いがする。初期Crimsonの「The Letters」の原曲「Why Don't You Just Drop In」、Michael Giles 、Judy Dyble が Vocal を務める「I Talk To The Wind」の2take 、「Peace−An End」の原曲「Passeges Of Time」、Pete Sinfieldのアルバムでも歌われた「Under The Sky」(Vocal:Judy Dyble)などそれなりに面白い。ただ、Judy Dybleを除いてVocalが弱いし、録音状態が一部悪いところがあるのでCrimsonマニア向けかな。
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Luigi
5つ星のうち4.0
The Brondesbury Tapes 1968
2015年12月13日にイタリアでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Difficile recensire un disco così di nicchia. Per me è molto bello . Prodotto conforme alla descrizione. Consegna perfetta effettuata nei tempi promessi. Tutto ok.
Mario Vilas
5つ星のうち5.0
Album indispensable ...génése d'un chef d'oeuvre
2015年2月11日にフランスでレビュー済みAmazonで購入
Album indispensable ...génése d'un chef d'oeuvre ..qui l'année suivante 1969 sera l'album d'anthologie
in the court of the crimson king
dans the brondesbury tapes , le son est génial , et les 21 miniatures qui compose cet album ce qui saute aux oreilles c'est l'excellente formation musicale des giles et fripp
la technique de Robert autant en classique qu'en jazz est tres avancée ...tous les musiciens ont deja un niveau extrémement élevé pour l'époque ...certaines pieces me font penser et la voix entre autre à Syd barret et son piper at the gates of dawn ..
cet album sonne vraiment bien , et tous fans du King Crimson se doit de l'avoir ...
in the court of the crimson king
dans the brondesbury tapes , le son est génial , et les 21 miniatures qui compose cet album ce qui saute aux oreilles c'est l'excellente formation musicale des giles et fripp
la technique de Robert autant en classique qu'en jazz est tres avancée ...tous les musiciens ont deja un niveau extrémement élevé pour l'époque ...certaines pieces me font penser et la voix entre autre à Syd barret et son piper at the gates of dawn ..
cet album sonne vraiment bien , et tous fans du King Crimson se doit de l'avoir ...
Frans van Weegberg
5つ星のうち5.0
I really love this one
2015年2月8日に英国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
I really love this one! The cd is superb, and very interesting for people who like the music of the late sixties. The cd arrived on time and was sealed and new. The quality of the sound is sometimes a little disappointing but 5 stars are in the pocket!
S. Nyland
5つ星のうち5.0
Every Journey of 1,000 Miles Begins With One Step, And People Tend To Stumble A Bit At First
2006年7月15日にアメリカ合衆国でレビュー済みAmazonで購入
So far, this is my 2nd favorite CD of 2006 and I am kicking myself for waiting so long to get it. EVERY fan of the early incarnations of King Crimson simply must partake of this remarkable, endearing and oh so anti-commercial little collection of ditties which have ruled my iPod now for 2 weeks straight: It is absolutely mesmerizing stuff.
Like any good Crimson/Fripp worshipper worth their salt I too sought out "The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp" in 1990 or so when the original Decca import CDs of the trio's first & only album finally reached our specialty stores here, and it quickly became a sort of guilty pleasure favorite; one of the great overlooked comedy albums ever to come out of Britain. But if anything "The Brondesbury Tapes" is an upgrade improvement upon the original rather than the other way around -- Instead of a tightly produced studio based jazz/rock hybrid pop album broken up by odd commentaries on the nature of man, this release is just the bare bones recordings made by the trio in their apartment along with future Crimson renaissance man Ian MacDonald, Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble, and a remarkable Revox tape machine that deservedly gets a special set of notes all on it's own. That thing should be in a museum somewhere, and the technician who maintained it for them deserves a monument built in his name.
To cut right to the chase, yes this is where the Robert Fripp legacy began, represents a sort of working sketch of the idea that became King Crimson in 1969 after nearly a decade of communal futility in trying to have a "go" at making a commercially successful band, and is a demonstration of a cup literally overflowing with talent that simply had nowhere to go. Peter Giles' liner notes are at times hilarious, heartbreaking, insightful and utterly inspiring -- anybody who dreams of making their own "album" right in their bedroom or loft should take note of how this collection of music was created even more than evaluating the music on it's own. I won't spoil the fun for anybody, but even after being familiar with the bulk of material presented I am awe struck at the tenacity of the trio/quartet/quintet to simply make the recordings at all, usually in the face of universal adversity and complete public disinterest. They never got one (1) single live gig as a band, though as these recordings reveal that may not have been the worst thing that ever happened as far as potential audiences were concerned, because the music was totally at odds with what was "hip" or cool in 1968. They couldn't have cared less, and that is maybe what signified them as "artists" rather than mere pop musicians.
The collection starts out with a suprisingly creepy little track called "Hypocrite" which is the oldest surviving commercial recording to feature Mr. Fripp on guitar. And while it may not be sonically rich the track still packs a bit of a whallop once you realize how the recording was made, and the acidic bitterness of the song's lyric is hard to not snicker at with sadistic glee. The reason I sought out the collection was deciding that I had to hear the long lost Judy Dyble voiced version of "I Talk To The Wind", previously only available on a now deleted 2 record Crimson compilation from 1977, and lovingly re-mastered to make it sound like an actual song. You also get two very different mixes of "Cheerful Insanity" era favorites "Newly-Weds", "Digging My Lawn", a very different version of Fripp's "Erudite Eyes", a 2nd MacDonald/Giles vocalized "I Talk To The Wind" (which is nowhere near as nice as Judy's), as well as the bonus tracks released on the remastered "Cheerful Insanity" album, "Under The Sky" (2 versions), "She Is Loaded" and 2 versions of the puzzling "(Why Don't You Just) Drop In", a staple of the early live Crimson shows which Fripp stubbornly continued to re-work until the 1971 "Islands" album, when it became one of my least favorite King Crimson tracks, "The Letters". The two versions presented here (and the live takes on the "Epitaph" collections) make one wonder why Fripp didn't just leave well enough alone. It was a superior pop take on Fripp's bemusement with the counterculture era, something which he worked to shape but had little or no contact with, other than observers. They were too busy rehearsing to be cool.
But for me at least the standout tracks on this collection are easily "Wonderland", an amazing Fripp scribed jazz/rock composition featuring a rare early pre-Belew instance of Fripp allowing someone else to play lead guitar (and a mind-boggling doo-wop vocalized section that is absurdly perfect -- I never knew Robert Fripp had it in him to make a song that is actually "fun" to listen to), a bizarre bit of lounge-jazz pop called "Make It Today" (2 versions) which would have made a perfect pop single if anyone had been smart enough to release it, the priceless Judy Dyble version of "I Talk To The Wind" with it's bummer clarinet notes and tinny lead guitar riffs, and of course the aforementioned "Drop In" cuts. Some of the filler material is a bit puzzling (especially "Passages of Time" with Ms. Dyble warbling like a police siren and is as close to memorably awful as anything Fripp ever did this side of "Lady of the Dancing Water") but it will all stick with you after the CD player is switched off , something you can't really even say about all of the Crimson albums, and you can hear his Guitar Craft sound in it's embryonic pre-infancy twenty years before he came up with a name for it. In other words you will want to listen to this again rather than hide it in the closet with "Vroom". I sort of lost patience with Fripp after "Thrak" and will always prefer the woodwind era "Fripp with an Afro" versions when he was perhaps not yet seen as the infallible art rock demigod history has painted him to be.
Maybe that's my tagline: If you have ever wondered what it would be like to hear Bob Fripp play an at times sub-standard guitar without his traditional array of pedal effects and whirlygigs back when he aspired to be a pop musician, this is your golden opportunity. The music may not appeal to every die hard Crimson fanatic but to paraphrase the late Dr. Carl Sagan, "The universe is not always required to be in perfect harmony with mere human ambitions." Sometimes what you get is what you get: This band never broke into the scene they pursued and the bitterness of their frustration fueled the first King Crimson era with a sort of resigned desparation to either succeed or take the universe down the toilet with them trying.
Fortunately for the rest of us they made it big, but yeah, this is where it all began, and you won't miss "The Saga of Rodney Toady" at all.
Like any good Crimson/Fripp worshipper worth their salt I too sought out "The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp" in 1990 or so when the original Decca import CDs of the trio's first & only album finally reached our specialty stores here, and it quickly became a sort of guilty pleasure favorite; one of the great overlooked comedy albums ever to come out of Britain. But if anything "The Brondesbury Tapes" is an upgrade improvement upon the original rather than the other way around -- Instead of a tightly produced studio based jazz/rock hybrid pop album broken up by odd commentaries on the nature of man, this release is just the bare bones recordings made by the trio in their apartment along with future Crimson renaissance man Ian MacDonald, Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble, and a remarkable Revox tape machine that deservedly gets a special set of notes all on it's own. That thing should be in a museum somewhere, and the technician who maintained it for them deserves a monument built in his name.
To cut right to the chase, yes this is where the Robert Fripp legacy began, represents a sort of working sketch of the idea that became King Crimson in 1969 after nearly a decade of communal futility in trying to have a "go" at making a commercially successful band, and is a demonstration of a cup literally overflowing with talent that simply had nowhere to go. Peter Giles' liner notes are at times hilarious, heartbreaking, insightful and utterly inspiring -- anybody who dreams of making their own "album" right in their bedroom or loft should take note of how this collection of music was created even more than evaluating the music on it's own. I won't spoil the fun for anybody, but even after being familiar with the bulk of material presented I am awe struck at the tenacity of the trio/quartet/quintet to simply make the recordings at all, usually in the face of universal adversity and complete public disinterest. They never got one (1) single live gig as a band, though as these recordings reveal that may not have been the worst thing that ever happened as far as potential audiences were concerned, because the music was totally at odds with what was "hip" or cool in 1968. They couldn't have cared less, and that is maybe what signified them as "artists" rather than mere pop musicians.
The collection starts out with a suprisingly creepy little track called "Hypocrite" which is the oldest surviving commercial recording to feature Mr. Fripp on guitar. And while it may not be sonically rich the track still packs a bit of a whallop once you realize how the recording was made, and the acidic bitterness of the song's lyric is hard to not snicker at with sadistic glee. The reason I sought out the collection was deciding that I had to hear the long lost Judy Dyble voiced version of "I Talk To The Wind", previously only available on a now deleted 2 record Crimson compilation from 1977, and lovingly re-mastered to make it sound like an actual song. You also get two very different mixes of "Cheerful Insanity" era favorites "Newly-Weds", "Digging My Lawn", a very different version of Fripp's "Erudite Eyes", a 2nd MacDonald/Giles vocalized "I Talk To The Wind" (which is nowhere near as nice as Judy's), as well as the bonus tracks released on the remastered "Cheerful Insanity" album, "Under The Sky" (2 versions), "She Is Loaded" and 2 versions of the puzzling "(Why Don't You Just) Drop In", a staple of the early live Crimson shows which Fripp stubbornly continued to re-work until the 1971 "Islands" album, when it became one of my least favorite King Crimson tracks, "The Letters". The two versions presented here (and the live takes on the "Epitaph" collections) make one wonder why Fripp didn't just leave well enough alone. It was a superior pop take on Fripp's bemusement with the counterculture era, something which he worked to shape but had little or no contact with, other than observers. They were too busy rehearsing to be cool.
But for me at least the standout tracks on this collection are easily "Wonderland", an amazing Fripp scribed jazz/rock composition featuring a rare early pre-Belew instance of Fripp allowing someone else to play lead guitar (and a mind-boggling doo-wop vocalized section that is absurdly perfect -- I never knew Robert Fripp had it in him to make a song that is actually "fun" to listen to), a bizarre bit of lounge-jazz pop called "Make It Today" (2 versions) which would have made a perfect pop single if anyone had been smart enough to release it, the priceless Judy Dyble version of "I Talk To The Wind" with it's bummer clarinet notes and tinny lead guitar riffs, and of course the aforementioned "Drop In" cuts. Some of the filler material is a bit puzzling (especially "Passages of Time" with Ms. Dyble warbling like a police siren and is as close to memorably awful as anything Fripp ever did this side of "Lady of the Dancing Water") but it will all stick with you after the CD player is switched off , something you can't really even say about all of the Crimson albums, and you can hear his Guitar Craft sound in it's embryonic pre-infancy twenty years before he came up with a name for it. In other words you will want to listen to this again rather than hide it in the closet with "Vroom". I sort of lost patience with Fripp after "Thrak" and will always prefer the woodwind era "Fripp with an Afro" versions when he was perhaps not yet seen as the infallible art rock demigod history has painted him to be.
Maybe that's my tagline: If you have ever wondered what it would be like to hear Bob Fripp play an at times sub-standard guitar without his traditional array of pedal effects and whirlygigs back when he aspired to be a pop musician, this is your golden opportunity. The music may not appeal to every die hard Crimson fanatic but to paraphrase the late Dr. Carl Sagan, "The universe is not always required to be in perfect harmony with mere human ambitions." Sometimes what you get is what you get: This band never broke into the scene they pursued and the bitterness of their frustration fueled the first King Crimson era with a sort of resigned desparation to either succeed or take the universe down the toilet with them trying.
Fortunately for the rest of us they made it big, but yeah, this is where it all began, and you won't miss "The Saga of Rodney Toady" at all.