A 50th Anniversary 2xCD/2xBlu-Ray edition of King Crimson’s explosive 1974 album.
Presented in vinyl replica sleeves in a rigid slipcase, with booklet (containing sleeve-notes by KC biographer Sid Smith).
Blu-Ray contents include
2024 mixes in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD MA 5.1 Surround Sound and Hi-Res Stereo by Steven Wilson
2024 Elemental Mixes by David Singleton, a number of extra tracks drawn from the existing sessions reels, all three mixes of the live album USA in Hi-Res Stereo, 5 audio restored bootleg concert recordings from the 1974 US tour making their debut on disc and the audio restored bootleg of the band’s final US show in Central Park NYC on July 1st, 1974. Hi-Res 24/96 stereo.
The CDs feature
2024 Steven Wilson stereo mix and instrumentals
2024 David Singleton Elemental Mixes and a sequence of studio recordings detailing the making of Starless
A 50th Anniversary double LP edition of King Crimson’s explosive 1974 album.
Pressed on 200g vinyl, LP1 features 2024 stereo mixes by Steven Wilson, while LP 2 includes 2024 elemental mixes by David Singleton.
Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering. Comes in a gatefold cover.
‘What I hear on Red is the best representation of 72-74 era line-up in the studio. In effect this is a power trio record and their sound is just huge.’ – Steven Wilson
“It’s impossible to quantify the effect that this band has had on contemporary musicians.” – Steve Vai
“Red” primarily revolves around the raw power trio of Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford and John Wetton. David Cross, Mel Collins, Ian McDonald, Robin Miller and Mark Charig make guest appearances on this powerhouse of an album.
Taking the music to new levels of clarity & power. “Red” was one of the earliest mixes undertaken by Steven Wilson in 2009 & King Crimson was the first of a number of classic bands & artists to be mixed by Steven so it’s entirely appropriate that he return, some 15 years later, to take the album into the Dolby Atmos era.
Whilst mixing the album for Dolby Atmos, Steven also prepared new stereo & 5.1 mixes.
As King Crimson biographer Sid Smith puts it in his new notes for the album: “David Singleton’s elemental mixes pull the veil aside on the original sessions and act as a kind of alternative account, a Red that could have been, revealing the different passes and takes that the band undertook as well as those Collins, Charig and McDonald as they engaged with the material.”
In the decades since its release, Red has gone from being an album that was, upon release, under-promoted – as the band had already split up, to being one of the most lauded albums of its era & (after “In The Court of the Crimson King“), King Crimson’s biggest selling album. Writing in The Mojo Collection in 2000, John Bungey assessed “Red” as “that rarest of records, the sound of a line-up quitting while ahead.”
As guitarist Steve Vai – a man about to undertake playing some of Fripp’s parts in Beat – a band devoted to playing King Crimson material – wrote in his online diary about the mid-1970s King Crimson (amidst a much longer piece eulogizing the band): “It’s impossible to quantify the effect that this band has had on contemporary musicians” – Steve Vai, July 2004
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Tracklist LP Version:
SIDE A
01. Red
02. Fallen Angel
03. One More Red Nightmare
SIDE B
01. Providence
02. Starless
LP1 – All new 2024 mixes by Steven Wilson.
LP2 – New elemental mixes by David Singleton.
Tracklist CD/Blu-Ray Version:
Blu-Ray 1
2024 Steven Wilson mixes in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD MA Surround (5.1) & 24/96 or 24/192 Hi-Res stereo.
Blu-Ray 2
David Singleton Elemental mixes, session material, 3 x USA album mixes, 5 x bootleg concert recordings from 1974, instrumental mixes and more… all in Hi-Res Stereo.
CD 1
2024 Steven Wilson mixes in stereo and instrumental forms
CD 2
2024 David Singleton Elemental mixes and session material.