{"title":"Robert Fripp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Fripp is a British guitarist, keyboards player, writer and producer. He is best known as a founder and only continuous member of King Crimson, from their debut album \"In The Court Of The Crimson King\" in 1969, through to the most recent studio album \"The Power to Believe\" in 2003. With over 50 years as a professional musician and 60 years as a guitarist, Fripp has made significant contributions to the music industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFripp is also recognized for his development of Frippertronics and Soundscapes, innovative methods that involve creating unique sounds with just one guitar using tape\/digital delay, rack-mount synthesizer units, and other effects. He co-owns and operates the record label DGM (Discipline Global Mobile) which specializes in releasing King Crimson material and side projects from various KC members.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his musical endeavors, Fripp founded Guitar Craft seminars in the mid-1980s. These seminars later evolved into Guitar Circles across North America, South America, and Europe. He continues to direct Guitar Circles along with the Symphony of Crafty Guitarists. Recently, his first widely published book \"The Guitar Circle\" was released by Panegyric Publishing in association with DGM.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"let-the-power-fall","title":"Let The Power Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLet The Power Fall\u003c\/i\u003e is the only full album of Frippertronics released during the original vinyl era and within two years of the original tour of shops\/offices\/restaurants et al that acted as venues for the concerts. With minimal promotion as the tour got underway, especially in North America, the shows quickly sold out. For many attending the effect of the music as it slowly unfolded was profound and deeply moving, and something which Fripp himself experienced. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpeaking to Melody Maker’s Lynden Barber in 1981, Fripp argued that Frippertronics gave him a way of working that put him in intimate contact with an audience, something that had been increasingly impossible in the conventional band set-up. “You can’t play Frippertronics and coast. It’s never that safe. It’s almost an excuse to put me in a situation where one has the audience, performer, and music, and in a certain kind of way something remarkable can happen. And that has happened to me, and it’s not possible in a group. Frippertronics is the most enjoyable means of playing I’ve ever found. Of all the tours I’ve done over 12 years, the only one I can look back on without being revolted or feeling grubby is the Frippertronics tour of 1979, the most crushingly hard work I’ve ever done.” Released in April 1981 just weeks after the sole album by The League of Gentlemen, Let The Power Fall was the final solo album by Robert.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 remaster by David Singleton and available on CD and also features three additional tracks discovered as part of the archive work for the Exposures multi-disc boxed set – a single edit of 1984 and two mixes of another track given the same name at the time of mixing and all three previously unreleased on individual CD.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2021 remaster by David Singleton and mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering. Pressed on 200gram Super-Heavyweight vinyl at Vinyl Factory UK and available on vinyl again for the first time since the mid-1980s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50388621001035,"sku":"1154250","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50388621820235,"sku":"1154249","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/6386e4f3-2f7c-4b2f-9c47-dd295dcbe643_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726345625"},{"product_id":"the-guitar-circle","title":"The Guitar Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003eLong-awaited first book from guitarist \/ founder member of King Crimson Collects much of Robert Fripp’s writing about Guitar Craft – his unique approach to guitar playing, collaborating and personal development Presented in a limited edition first print hardcover format with cover, inside pages and jacket all printed on high-end Italian Fedrigoni paper All copies are individually wrapped and boxed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":50411533336907,"sku":"1159899","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/deb86b3d-1bc0-4da1-b0c6-8f7e9a399d05_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726659661"},{"product_id":"god-save-the-queen-under-heavy-manners","title":"God Save The Queen \/ Under Heavy Manners","description":"\u003cp\u003e2021 remaster by David Singleton of\u003ci\u003e God Save The Queen\u003c\/i\u003e: by the time \u003ci\u003eExposure\u003c\/i\u003e had been released in june 1979 Robert Fripp had already embarked on one of the most unconventional tours to support a new record that had ever been undertaken; record shops (including Rough Trade West), offices, public spaces, canteens, planetariums and, later, some conventional venues and theatres. Accompanied by a tour manager, a Les Paul guitar, a pedalboard, and two revox tape recorders were packed into a car and they crisscrossed their way across Europe and America. That tour in turn provided the material for many further recordings. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder Heavy Manners\u003c\/i\u003e: side two of the lp was given over to the next phase of Fripp’s drive to 1981. Sometimes referred to as discotronics, Fripp intended to create a bespoke meeting place between Frippertronics’ repetitious loops and a pulsating four-to-the-floor beat. With bassist Busta Cherry Jones and drummer Paul Duskin, the trio laid down a taut minimalist groove against Frippertronics loops lifted from the solo tour earlier in the year. The trio line- up was augmented by David Byrne as guest vocalist on the title track. Reviewing \u003ci\u003eGod Save The Queen\/Under Heavy Manners\u003c\/i\u003e, Melody Maker’s Allan Jones lauded the Frippertronics pieces but prophetically concluded: “it’s to \u003ci\u003eUnder Heavy Manners\u003c\/i\u003e that one eventually looks for a key to fripp’s musical future. He, as much as anyone, needs someone to force an entry into areas He’s not fully able to unlock himself. Under heavy manners suggests he’s looking in the right directions.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50456563908939,"sku":"1154255","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50456564465995,"sku":"1154254","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bf141a05-c89b-4890-93c0-58be5a6bb063_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727199525"},{"product_id":"exposure-reissue","title":"Exposure","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter an absence of 30 years, the first edition of this album is available on vinyl again, now as 200-gram vinyl. The album has been mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud mastering from masters approved by Robert Fripp. The new 2 LP edition consists of the original 1979 release on LP1, while LP2 presents the 2006 third edition on vinyl for the first time. This is essentially, a version of the 1983 remix \/ 1985 reissue with the inclusion of the 3 formerly unreleased Daryl Hall vocal tracks. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50457276154187,"sku":"1102785","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/14e9ec46-ef03-4aee-ae07-0bae15688b8a_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727204320"},{"product_id":"washington-square-church","title":"Washington Square Church","description":"\u003cp\u003eLive Frippertronics performances taken from recordings in New York City between July and August 1981. Mixed and Produced by David Singleton from audio restored by Alex R. Mundy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter completing the first round of concerts with a revived King Crimson starting in May 1981, Fripp headed over to the USA where he began a week-long residency at Washington Square United Methodist Church on 135 W Fourth Street in New York. Built in 1860, the church had historically been home to many congregations but in more recent years had become the venue for groups such as the Black Panthers, Gay Men’s Health Crisis and numerous arts organisations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe series of Frippertronics concerts were held in aid of a Soho-based theatre group and they find the guitarist using his technique of slowly building the music from the ground up, step by step. It’s an approach which demonstrates how the addition or subtraction of a single note can change the entire mood of a piece as we move in the space of a few bars from an atmosphere of pensive anticipation to one of yearning hope. In an interview with the Melody Maker published just weeks before these concerts, Fripp was asked why he continued to perform Frippertronics concerts. “It gives me a way of working with intimate contact with members of an audience...It's almost an excuse to put me in a situation where one has the audience, performer and music, and in a certain kind of way something remarkable can happen. And that has happened to me, and it's not possible in a group...Frippertronics is the most enjoyable means of playing I've ever found.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Washington Square Church performances represent some of the finest recorded examples of the Frippertronics series. Unlike other such recordings where the loops are on tape in the DGM archive but the solos require painstaking matching of existing audience recordings and bootlegs to those loops to complete the picture, the solos for these shows were actually recorded but not labelled as to which solos matched which loops. The matched pairs only became possible when DGM audio engineer Alex R. Mundy realised that the loops had been picked up, at microscopic audio levels, by the guitar pick-ups playing the solos, allowing for identification. David Singleton was then able to mix and produce the resulting audio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe music played more than rewards such efforts as, culled from the shows, (more complete versions appear on the “Exposures” boxed set), Fripp appears to explore every sonic avenue available to him as a guitar player – mesmerising loops, overlaid with beautiful solos, fast running ‘Frame by Frame’ style lines against a looped background, powerful ‘Scary Monsters’ type guitar noises and more besides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Frippertronics album that should have come out in 1982. The forty years that have passed have done nothing to diminish the power of the music.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50459038056779,"sku":"1147713","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50459037696331,"sku":"1147712","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/f3c81182-f22e-407d-9167-0ba1570d6f82_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727216602"},{"product_id":"exposure-steven-wilson-mix","title":"Exposure (Steven Wilson Mix)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter King Crimson's dissolution in 1974, Robert Fripp embarked on a lengthy sabbatical away from the public eye. His relocation from Great Britain to New York in February 1978 marked his return as a producer, solo artist, and ‘wild card’ collaborator with an impressive roster of artists including Daryl Hall, Blondie, Peter Gabriel, and David Bowie. Fripp's first solo album, \u003ci\u003eExposure\u003c\/i\u003e, was released in 1979. A further two solo records, \u003ci\u003eUnder Heavy Manners \/ God \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSave The Queen \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLet The Power Fall\u003c\/i\u003e followed, and in 1980 he formed The League Of Gentlemen. Described as a New Wave dance band, this led to King Crimson's reformation in 1981. \u003ci\u003eExposure\u003c\/i\u003e retains all of the power and vitality that made it such a compelling listen when first released. One of the seminal albums of the period revisited.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLP - Presented in single LP form as remixed from the original multi-track master tapes by Steven Wilson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD - Fourth Edition - Newly mixed (from the original multi-track tapes) by Steven Wilson. Features the complete album plus the alternate vocal tracks. DVD features the complete album plus additional material in 24\/96 hi-res stereo and in DTS 5.1 Surround Sound. DVD also features Last of the New York Heartthrobs – the Exposure album in its original 1978 intended running order with original vocal performances in 24\/96 hi-res stereo. DVD also features the Third Edition of the album plus additional material in 24\/48 hi-res stereo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e32 Disc Set. Steven Wilson mixes of \u003ci\u003eExposure\u003c\/i\u003e in (in two versions),\u003ci\u003e Under Heavy Manners, The League of Gentlemen\u003c\/i\u003e studio recordings and numerous unreleased tracks from the albums’ sessions appear in Dolby Atmos, DTS-HD 5.1 Surround and 24\/96 hi-res stereo audio on Blu-Ray discs 1 and 4. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Singleton mixes of \u003ci\u003eGod Save the Queen, Let the Power Fall \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eWashington Square Church\u003c\/i\u003e Frippertronics album appear in DTS-HD Surround (Quad\/4.1) and in hi- res stereo ranging from 24\/48 (WSC), 24\/96 GSTQ) to 24\/192 (LTPF) on Blu-Ray discs 1 and 4. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition, all editions and versions of \u003ci\u003eExposure\u003c\/i\u003e (including previously unreleased), original masters of all of the albums from the period and a wealth of additional material, much of it previously unreleased appear on Blu-Ray in hi-res stereo audio on those discs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo further Blu-Ray discs present the complete DGM archive of Frippertronics loops, masters and concert performances – over 68 hours of music in 24\/48 hi-res stereo \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree DVDs feature the main albums in 5.1, quad and hi-res stereo.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty five CDs present material including the earliest existing master loops, all of the albums in new Steven Wilson and David Singleton mixes, plus original mixes newly mastered and a number of studio and live discs featuring previously unreleased and\/or music new to disc \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll CDs included appropriate additional material.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in a 12” box containing extensive notes and photos from throughout this era and lots of memorabilia including tickets, posters, press releases and more\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50459041169739,"sku":"1147716","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD | x2","offer_id":50459040579915,"sku":"1147714","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/690845d3-6b9d-4db9-b5fe-ef5fc5dcb94c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727216633"},{"product_id":"music-for-quiet-moments","title":"Music For Quiet Moments","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis boxed set brings together a number of Robert Fripp performances and extracts from solo concerts from 2004 - 2009. 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In the 1990s his 1970s Frippertronics system gave way to Soundscapes and with it a new generation of performers such as Future Sound Of London, The Grid and many others were not only citing Fripp as an influence but eagerly having him appear on their records. Some musicians inhabit genres, very few invent them, whether intentionally or arbitrarily credited with such. Fewer still continue to evolve, push forward, challenging both themselves and their audience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Panegyric","offers":[{"title":"CD | x8","offer_id":50459405123915,"sku":"1135528","price":54.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bcf6bbf1-7699-4a1d-9081-e86c8fda4057_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727221631"},{"product_id":"exposure","title":"Exposure","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Fripp's solo debut, originally released in 1979, Exposure is not only an important release historically in terms of influencing much music to come, including post-punk popular groups of today, it also is a who's who of guest musicians from Daryl Hall to Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, Terre Roche, Brian Eno, Tony Levin, Phil Collins, Narada Michael Walden, Jerry Marotta, Barry Andrews and Sid McGinnis. This standard edition is being released as a two disc set, with 24-page booklet. 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