Red (2024 Steven Wilson Mixes & 2024 David Singleton Elemental Mixes) (50th Anniversary Edition)

クリムゾン、そしてプログレッシブ・ロックを代表する名盤『RED』の50周年記念エディションがLPフォーマットでも登場!Steven Wilsonによる新規リミックス音源・David SingletonによるElemental Mix音源を収録!!

プログレッシブ・ロックを代表するバンド:KING CRIMSON、バンドの「レッド・ゾーン」を音として体現した鬼気迫るハードな演奏/楽曲によりプログレッシブ・ロックを代表する名盤となった、第3期KING CRIMSONの最終作にして彼らの70年代期のラストを飾る'74年作『RED』がリリース50周年を記念し、Steven Wilsonによる2024年新規リミックス音源・David Singletonによる「Elemental Mix」音源をそれぞれ収録した2枚組200g重量盤限定アナログとして'24年再発!

LP 1にはSteven Wilsonが手掛けた'74年作本編の'24年新規リミックス音源、LP 2には、'74年作本編のマルチトラック録音を素材に新たなる『RED』を構築した、お馴染みDavid Singletonによる「Elemental Mix」音源をそれぞれ収録。Loud MasteringのJason Mitchellによるカッティング。

King Crimson fell apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walked away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noiser overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past -- Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might've sounded like handling the later group's repertory (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimson album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement. Indeed, Red does improve in some respects on certain aspects of the previous album -- including "Starless," a cousin to the prior album's title track -- and only the lower quality of the vocal compositions keeps this from being as strongly recommended as its two predecessors. ~ Bruce Eder