Robert Fripp UK tour 05, December
November 30th, 2005 by Koldo Barroso
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King Crimson’s guitarist Robert Fripp will perform a series of soundscapes in UK during December. Fripp is one of the most talented and innovative guitarists and composers of the last decades. He is also told for being the most technically skilled rock guitarist ever and a pioneer of ambient music. In 1994 Robert Fripp revisited the Frippertronics loop technique and improved it with the new digital technology to start a series of new ambient works under the name and genre of soundscapes. In 1973 Robert Fripp and Brian Eno joined together in 1973 to work on a system based in the manipulation of tape machines to create delays, this being the introduction of loop techniques and ambient works in the world of popular music. The duo recorded with this system the albums "No Pussyfooting" (1973) and "Evening Star" (1975). Fripp and Eno were probably the first British rock artists to enter the world of avant-garde music, as the krautrock artists had done in Germany a few years ago. The system created by Robert Fripp for this work was baptized as "Frippertronics" and was later used during his solo career. In 1994, Robert Fripp revisited his "Frippertronics" loop technique and improved it with the new digital technology to start a series of new ambient works under the name and genre of soundscapes. These works include the albums "1999 Soundscapes: Live in Argentina" (1994), "A Blessing of Tears" (1995), "Radiophonics" (1995), "That Which Passes" (1996), "November Suite" (1997), "Pie Jesu" (1997), "The Gates of Paradise" (1998) and "Lightness: Music for the Marble Palace" (1998). Dates: |