The Night Watch (album)
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| The Night Watch | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | 17 October 1997 | |||
| Recorded | 23 November 1973 | |||
| Venue | Concertgebouw (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, heavy metal, hard rock, free improvisation | |||
| Length | 84:34 | |||
| Label | Discipline Global Mobile | |||
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| Allmusic |   [1] |
The Night Watch is a live album (2-CD set) by the English rock band King Crimson, recorded in Amsterdam in November 1973, and released in 1997.
Contents
[edit]This album contains an important performance in King Crimson's career, being the source of the improvisations "Trio" and "Starless and Bible Black", the Fripp instrumental "Fracture" and the intro to the song "The Night Watch", all of which were included, with some editing, in the 1974 album Starless and Bible Black. Prerecorded excerpts of (No Pussyfooting) appear at the end of "21st Century Schizoid Man" similarly to what was included at the beginning of USA.
Production
[edit]The concert was performed on 23 November 1973 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Most of the concert was also broadcast live by the BBC and taped by listeners; bootlegs of the broadcast circulated among fans. The concert began with a version of "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)", a recording of which has never been found. Some bootlegs claim to have it but these are recordings from other sources.[2] It was one of the first releases of archival recordings by Discipline Global Mobile, the music company founded by Robert Fripp.
Art
[edit]Like the covers of many King Crimson albums, The Night Watch's cover features a painting by P. J. Crook, which is also entitled The Nightwatch. The sleeve was designed by the Bill Smith Studio of London.
Track listing
[edit]Disc 1
[edit]- "Easy Money" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) – 6:14
- "Lament" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) – 4:14
- "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) – 4:07
- "Fracture" (Fripp) – 11:28
- "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) – 5:28
- "Improvisation: Starless and Bible Black" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) – 9:11
Disc 2
[edit]- "Improvisation: Trio" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) – 6:09
- "Exiles" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) – 6:37
- "Improvisation: The Fright Watch" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford) – 6:03
- "The Talking Drum" (Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir) – 6:34
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) – 7:51
- "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, McDonald, Lake, Giles, Sinfield) – 10:38
Personnel
[edit]- King Crimson
- David Cross – violin, viola, Mellotron, Hohner Pianet
- Robert Fripp – electric guitar, Mellotron, Hohner Pianet
- John Wetton – bass guitar, vocals
- Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
- Production personnel
- George Chkiantz – recording engineer
- David Singleton – mixing engineer
- Alex R. Mundy – assistant engineer
- Mixed at DGM World Central by David Singleton & Robert Fripp during July 1997
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1997) | Peak position |
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| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[3] | 61 |
References
[edit]- ^ The Night Watch at AllMusic
- ^ Confirmed by David Singleton at The Night Watch playback held on 17 January 1998 in London.
- ^ Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9.
External links
[edit]- The Night Watch at Discogs (list of releases)
