Starless and Bible Black

Starless and Bible Black

by King Crimson
Starless and Bible Black

Starless and Bible Black

by King Crimson

Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record - Special Edition)

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Overview

Starless and Bible Black is even more powerful and daring than its predecessor, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, with jarring tempo shifts, explosive guitar riffs, and soaring, elegant, and delicate violin and Mellotron parts scattered throughout its 41 minutes, often all in the same songs. The album was on the outer fringes of accessible progressive rock, with enough musical ideas explored to make Starless and Bible Black more than background for tripping the way Emerson, Lake & Palmer's albums were. "The Night Watch," a song about a Rembrandt painting, was, incredibly, a single release, although it was much more representative of the sound that Crimson was abandoning than where it was going in 1973-1974. More to that point were the contents of side two of the LP, a pair of instrumentals that threw the group's hardest sounds right in the face of the listener, and gained some converts in the process. ~ Bruce Eder

Product Details

Release Date: 06/19/2020
Label: Panegyric
UPC: 0633367792112
Rank: 32348

Album Credits

Performance Credits

King Crimson   Primary Artist
Bill Bruford   Drums,Percussion
John Wetton   Bass,Vocals,Voices
Robert Fripp   Guitar,Devices,Keyboards,Mellotron,Mellophonium
David Cross   Viola,Violin,Keyboards

Technical Credits

Tony Arnold   Mixing
Simon Heyworth   Mixing
Bill Bruford   Composer
King Crimson   Producer
David Singleton   Mixing,Audio Restoration
John Wetton   Composer
Robert Fripp   Mixing,Composer,Producer
Peter Henderson   Assistant Engineer
Richard Palmer-James   Composer
Steven Wilson   Mixing,Producer
George Chkiantz   Coordination
David Cross   Composer
Tom Phillips   Cover Design
Alex R. Mundy   Audio Restoration
Tex   Equipment Coordinator
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