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@kentpitman

Yes—and "shroud" fits very well!

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Three things:

Peter Sinfield (1943–2024) reciting Epitaph at a festival in Genoa, Italy:
<https://youtu.be/G7ZDwP9Mdv0>

The text (ninth on this page):
<https://songsouponsea.neocities.org/LYRICS/68-74>

King Crimson's song (studio recording, 1969):
<https://youtu.be/vXrpFxHfppI>

#KingCrimson
#PeterSinfield

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix

King Crimson:
🎵 21st Century Schizoid Man

#KingCrimson

https://open.spotify.com/track/2MfrET7Nc3StKQcGoZKqr9

MONDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO Rupert’s People “Hold On” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYbrxbXH5bs

#rupertspeople #rodlynton #fleurdelys #chrisandrews #charlesbrown #petesolley #philsawyer #gordhaskell #kingcrimson #brynhaworth #spencerdavis #prettythings #brianauger #trinity #johnnyjblair #mod #britishrock #psychedelic #rogerdaltrey #davidessex #davyjones #monkees

📌El cine subvencionado que odia la derecha española conquista el resto del mundo
📌‘Queendom’: viaje al mundo lésbico del girls love tailandés
📌BEAT: viaje al pasado o al rock progresivo de la banda ochentera de King Crimson
📌Javier Ruiz denuncia una “ofensiva” contra RTVE por sus audiencias: “Si ustedes están aquí, otros canales pierden dinero”
https://carabanchel.net/
#Carabanchel #Madrid #VIDEOS
#acoso #audiencias #javierruiz #Mañaneros360 #ofensiva #rtve #VitoQuiles
#bandaochentera #BEAT #KingCrimson #rock
#BeamTawan #Gais #girlslove #GL #Lesbianas #Queendom #serie
#AmargaNavidad #FestivaldeCannes #JavierCalvo #LaBolaNegra #LosJavis #PedroAlmodóvar #Sorogoyen

G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 4/04/26

I check out an album by King Crimson, and the latest album by Thundercat.

Favorite Videos include Camille Blackman on Medium Sized Backyard, KROI on COSMOS Session, and more!

https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-4-04-26

#Music #1001Albums #KingCrimson #Thundercat #CamilleBlackman #MediumSizedBackyard #Kroi #CosmosSession

Covers I never knew existed, K.D. Lang doing #KingCrimson's "Matte Kudasai" which is probably one of the very few tunes in their massive catalog that could remotely be retrofit into Lang's style, but damn, it's just a beautiful take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLqwmOgG5c8

29th March 1974, King Crimson released the album "Starless and Bible Black"

#kingcrimson #AlbumOfTheDay #70s

#KingCrimson Absent Lovers is one of the best-recorded #live albums I've ever heard.

Sleepless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyftbG5zyOo

#music #rock

SONG OF THE WEEK: “And I Love Her” http://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/and-i-love-her (from the download album DEATH, GOD, LOVE, & MONEY).

#beatles #lennonmccartney #soundtrack #georgeharrison #EMI #evocative #flamenco #bossanova #samba #julioiglesias #johnnyjblair #japaneseopera #kabuki #libretto #haunted #kingcrimson #sanfrancisco #davegilmour #ronniespector #dream

What a week - at times I was a more than a bit tense, more things to juggle than usual. A wrap up today showed some progress.

I guess cycling 500 km in 5 days in extended commutes helped spin down a bit, just like late King Crimson music.

#work #cycling #kingcrimson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Action_to_Unseat_the_Hold_of_Monkey_Mind

Now that I’ve again got a working cassette player, I’ve been listening to Emerson, Lake & Palmer #ELP Works, from 1977. At the time, I don’t think I appreciated they were a ‘super group’ - from #TheNice, #KingCrimson & #AtomicRooster.
Not heard these tapes for decades, yet I still know every lyric, and Greg Lake’s vocals still have the ability to make me go weak at the knees. #music

The last two evenings I listened to 1984 recording of a King Crimson concert in Tokio. Pure bliss.

#kingcrimson #music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqEHioeMeE&list=PL5BFJgXr2uDCf25pf361SRwBNad883fHw&index=1

OMG OMG OMG

BEAT are playing Wolverhampton in June 🤯

https://myticket.co.uk/artists/beat

#music #liveMusic #kingCrimson #progRock #rock

With the same swirling whammy lick opening “Moonbelt Immolator” gracing the opening minute of “Cryogenically Frozen,” Cryptic Shift have returned. Visitations from Enceladus was a monolithic record that rocked my world in 2020, taking me to the most vile reaches of the universe in a technical death/thrash expedition of cosmic horror. Six years later, the group from Leeds, UK aim to expand on their already expansive debut regarding both their sci-fi theming and musicality with their sophomore. They didn’t skimp out on us either: Overspace & Supertime is one track greater than Visitations and nearly twice as long, boasting two twenty-plus-minute epics.1 A feature film’s runtime of borderline avant-garde extreme metal is no small feat, but if designed and shaped with singular vision, patience and skill, then anything can happen. And in the strange aeons Cryptic Shift occupy, anything happens all the time.

An undertaking like Overspace & Supertime demands top-notch performances to survive: Cryptic Shift couldn’t have done much better. Keeping true to the mix of Atheistic death, Vektorian thrash, and King Crimsonian progressive sensibilities that made the debut a knockout, Cryptic Shift have opened another wormhole of technical death/thrash immensity. But if you’re imagining Visitations II: Eldritch Boogaloo, stop. Overspace takes what made Visitations great and kicks it into warp speed. The guitar duo of Xander Bradley and Joss Farrington (Cryptworm)2 tear through an embarrassment of mind-bending, neck-breaking riffs across Overspace, bending across their whole fretboards, soloing on “Stratocumulus Evergaol” and putting their entire asses behind the chugged-up “Hyperspace Topography.” Drummer Ryan Sheperson pummels his kit in time I can only guess at on “Overspace & Supertime” while bassist John Riley fretlessly glides over “Cryogenically Frozen” into solos traded off between the guitars, amounting to a finessed, yet relentless attack. Topped off with Bradley’s cavernous bellows, Overspace & Supertime is a tour de force of musical expertise.

Overspace & Supertime by Cryptic Shift

What carries Cryptic Shift’s longform songwriting is that their music is always in flux. Whenever the band seems lost in their own prog-sauce—like in the effect-heavy openings of “Hexagonal Eyes (Diverity Trepaphymphasyzm)” and “Cryogenically Frozen”—they always swing back with a bruiser riff that helps keep Overspace more approachable than it ought to be. Like on Visitations, Cryptic Shift employ clean guitar passages and eerie atmospheres to outline the heavy bits. But on Overspace, they are woven smoothly into the distorted parts to create dynamic passages, like the shimmering clean strums between monstrous death hits on “Stratocumulus Evergaol” or the blackened surf-rock tremolos of “Hyperspace Topography.” But Cryptic Shift’s greatest dynamic on Overspace is that of light vs. dark. While their debut was a pitch-black exploration of space-born horrors, Overspace injects a healthy dosage of awe into their mix, including strangely bright conclusions to “Cryogenically Frozen” and “Overspace & Supertime” and a passage at ~16 minutes into “Stratocumulus Evergaol” that’s so boppy that it could pass for Rise Against. It’s in the name: Cryptic Shift change in some strange ways over the course of Overspace & Supertime, and I’m here for it.

And this leads me to the true wonder of Overspace & Supertime and where its immensity is most benefited: the beauty of the off-kilter. This is an album of purely aggressive, dissonant, esoteric, and oddly-timed stuff; Cryptic Shift made no obvious move, and they’re clearly not gunning for radio play. So why is it so beautiful? Solos that effortlessly slide from Slayer-like chromatic bullshittery into soaring melodicism. Patient ambiances both tranquil and unsettling, belligerent thrashing as exhilarating as it is hostile. The brilliant production best described by Dolphin Whisperer as “tone porn,” where all cleans are crystalline, and everything dirty is disgusting. How easy it is to fall under Cryptic Shift’s spell and let the freeform journey take you on its many twists and turns. The fact that Overspace & Supertime gets weird and takes its precious time doing so allows the listener to immerse themselves in Cryptic Shift’s world, making for a simply sublime experience.

In retrospect, Visitations from Enceladus feels like Cryptic Shift’s proof-of-concept for Overspace & Supertime. Yes, this is an exhausting record. Trying to catch everything on it during your first listen could make you go blind. Maybe 80 minutes is too damn long. But Overspace & Supertime is a better record than my wildest expectations, six years in the making, ever dreamed up. Like Frank Zappa at his best, Cryptic Shift on Overspace left me frequently confused, sometimes just plain tickled, but never unmoved before their showcase of the bizarre and the otherwordly. In the stranger aeons Cryptic Shift occupy, anything has happened.

Rating: Excellent
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 256 kbps MP3
Label: Metal Blade Records
Websites: cryptic-shift.bandcamp | facebook.com/crypticshift
Releases Worldwide: February 27, 2026

King Crimson, The Sheltering Sky, Munich 1982.

I like Tony Levin's play in this version.
#kingcrimson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_zSvnYO_KE

Michael Giles - Shadows / Solo

#Michaelgiles #kingcrimson #progrock #prog

https://los-endos.com/michael-giles-shadows-solo/

A timeless classic.

https://song.link/de/i/918614531

#RandomMusickMayhem #ProgressiveRock #Rock #KingCrimson #Jazzrock

I find it hard to know what music younger people know about. I shared a lot of great old music with my son, so he's really not a good example.

But I wonder how many younger people know about King Crimson these days. Particularly banging songs like "The Great Deceiver".

I had to order the CD of "Starless and Bible Black" because Google Music didn't have it.

https://youtu.be/-O5Yvvz8XY0?si=f_uIkDXmUg4g0Mu4

#Music #KingCrimson

SONG OF THE WEEK “They Were There For You” https://johnnyjblairsingeratlarge.bandcamp.com/track/they-were-there-for-you

#robinmackey #family #celebration #gatherings #festivities #love #mortalcoil #fleshandblood #eternity #mortality #space #time #sun #scifi #glencampbell #mosrite #neilfinn #paulmccartney #kingcrimson #johnnyjblair #singersongwriter #singeratlarge

King Crimson 1995: One Time

Peak Adrian Belew

#Kingcrimson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUpd3u66gas&list=RDkR2HeJySFHg&index=6

Eine Welt ohne Kinder hat keine Zukunft. Das ist kein Sci-Fi zum Abschalten, sondern ein Film, der uns heute noch unangenehm nahe geht. Flüchtlingslager, Ausnahmezustand, nur Hoffnung im Gepäck. Alfonso Cuarón mixt Action, Politik und Popkultur zu einem Jetzt-Film, der nicht tröstet, sondern wach macht. Kurz Luft holen. Dann ansehen! (ARTE, Wh.)

Chris Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK “You Won’t Be Seeing Me Anymore” by Tim Andrews w/Gordon Haskell https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/you-wont-be-seeing-me-anymore

#timandrews #chrisandrews #gordonhaskell #fleurdelys #kingcrimson #harrysbar #California #LaurelCanyon #SanFrancisco #Love #Itsabeautifulday #whitebird #tonyhall #London #Parlophone #singersongwriter #rogerdaltrey #davidessex #davyjones #monkees