Adrian Belew: guitar & vocals
Robert Fripp: guitar
Trey Gunn: Warr guitar,
Pat Mastelotto - drumming
King Crimson’s recent US tour was billed as “Celebrating 40 years” in recognition of the fact that the band has entered its fortieth year of engaging with an audience, whether via recordings or concerts. Of course there have been periods, occasionally lengthy ones, when the band has been placed on hiatus but few bands have proved to be as enduring. Fewer still can lay claim to such a musically diverse or influential output.
Level Five (2001), was issued as a tour CD and only available to concert attendees, with subsequent limited editions available from the band’s website and in Japan. A live album consisting of three lengthy previously unrecorded instrumentals alongside The ConstruKction of Light and Deception of the Thrush, it is a wonderful document of that line-up’s live power.
An unlisted hidden track is also included. This is a highly regarded and sought after live recording by fans of the band and this release is the first time that the album has been more widely available to retail and its first release at mid price level.
