We begin with the ProjeKCts, the fractalized King Crimson consisting of various subsets of the double trio, created circa 1997.

• The Roar of P4, 1998 - 1999
  • Seventh release of the DGM Collector's Club.
  1. Ghost
  2. Heavy ConstruKction
  3. Light ConstruKction
  4. Deception of the Thrush
  5. Seizure
  6. Ghost 3
  7. ProjeKction

  Notes: The first Collector's Club release not devoted to an official lineup of King Crimson, this is ProjeKct 4, consisting of Fripp, Gunn, Levin & Mastelotto. (This entry is cross listed on page two of this discography because it was part of the Collector's Club.)

  

• Space Groove - ProjeKct 2 - 1998

  Disk 1 - Space Groove

  1. Space Groove II
  2. Space Groove III
  3. Space Groove I

  Disk 2 - Vector Patrol

  1. Happy Hour on Planet Zarg
  2. Is There Life on Zarg?
  3. Low Life in Sector Q-3
  4. Sector Shift
  5. Laura in Space
  6. Sector Drift
  7. Sector Patrol
  8. In Space There is no North, In Space There is no South, In Space There is no East, In Space There is no West
  9. Vector Patrol
  10. Deserts of Arcadia (North)
  11. Deserts of Arcadia (South)
  12. Snake Drummers of Sector Q-3
  13. Escape from Sagittarius A

  Notes: ProjeKct 2 is Robert Fripp (Guitar), Trey Gunn (Touch Guitar, Guitar Synth) & Adrian Belew (V Drums).

  

• The ProjeKCts Box - 1999

  Disk 1 - Live at The Jazz Cafe - ProjeKct 1

  1. 4 i 1
  2. 4 ii 1
  3. 1 ii 2
  4. 4 ii 4
  5. 2 ii 3
  6. 3 i 2
  7. 3 ii 2
  8. 2 ii 4
  9. 4 i 3

  Notes: ProjeKct 1 is Robert Fripp (Guitar), Trey Gunn (Touch Guitar), Tony Levin (Bass, Stick, Synth) & Bill Bruford (Drums and Percussion). Recorded Dec. 1 - 4, 1997.

  Disk 2 - Live Groove - Project 2

  1. Sus-tayn-Z
  2. Heavy ConstruKction
  3. The Deception of the Thrush
  4. X-chayn-jiZ
  5. Light ConstruKction
  6. Vector Shift to Planet Detroit
  7. Contrary ConstruKction
  8. Live Groove
  9. Vector Shift to Planet Belewbeloid
  10. 21^st Century Schizoid Man

  Notes: ProjeKct 2 is Robert Fripp (Guitar), Trey Gunn (Touch Guitar, Guitar Synth) & Adrian Belew (V Drums). Recorded early in 1999.

  Disk 3 - Masque - ProjeKct 3

  1. Masque 1 - 13

  Notes: ProjeKct 3 is Robert Fripp (Guitar), Trey Gunn (Touch Guitar, Talker) & Pat Mastelotto (Electronic Traps & Buttons). Recorded early in 1998.

  Disk 4 - West Coast Live - ProjeKct 4

  1. Ghost (part 1)
  2. Deception of the Thrush
  3. Hindu Fizz
  4. ProjeKction
  5. Ghost (part 2)

  Notes: ProjeKct 4 is Robert Fripp (Guitar), Trey Gunn (Touch Guitar, Talker) & Tony Levin (basses, Stick) & Pat Mastelloto (Electronic Traps and buttons). Recorded late 1998 (?)

  

• Heaven and Earth ProjeKCt X - 2000
  • What didn't make it onto The ConstruKCtion of Light - the studio outtakes.
  1. The Business of Pleasure
  2. Hat in the Middle
  3. Side Window
  4. Maximizer
  5. Strange Ears (Aging Rapidly)
  6. Overhead Floor Mats Under Toe
  7. Six O'clock
  8. Superbottomfeeder
  9. One E And
  10. Two Awkward Moments
  11. Demolition
  12. Conversation Pit
  13. Cin Alay!
  14. Heaven and Earth
  15. Belew Jay Way

  Notes: ProjeKCt X is the same band as the "double duo" of 2000 - Adrian Belew (guitar and V-drums), Robert Fripp (guitar and soundscapes), Trey Gunn (bass touch guitar and baritone guitar) & Pat Mastellotto (traps and buttons). From the rehearsals and recording sessions for The ConstruKCtion of Light.

• The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles & Fripp - 1968
  1. North Meadow
  2. Newly-Weds
  3. One in a Million
  4. Call Tomorrow
  5. Digging My Lawn
  6. Little Children
  7. The Crukster
  8. Thursday Morning
  9. How Do They Know
  10. Elephant Song
  11. The Sun is Shining
  12. Suite No. 1
  13. Erudite Eyes
      Bonus Tracks on CD:

      She is Loaded

      Under the Sky

      One in a Million - Mono single version

      Newly-Weds - Mono single version

      Thursday Morning - Mono single version

      Thursday Morning - Stereo single version

  Notes: A light pop album which sounds nothing like King Crimson. However, listening to tracks like "Suite No. 1" & Erudite Eyes" will convince one of Fripp's precision and prowess on the frets, as well as Mike Giles' masterful drumming. The other tracks display catchy melodies, bizarre humor and tight playing, even though the music is nowhere near as ground-breaking as what was to come less than a year later.

  

• McDonald and Giles - Ian McDonald & Michael Giles (1970)
  1. Suite in C
  2. Flight of the Ibis
  3. Is She Waiting?
  4. Tomorrow's People - The Children of Today
  5. Birdman
  Notes: As close as you will get to the sound of the original King Crimson lineup without actually listening to King Crimson. Other artists appearing on the album include Peter Giles, Steve Winwood (on "Turnham Green") and Pete Sinfield providing lyrics for Birdman. Notice also the Flight of the Ibis - it is essentially the tune from Cadence & Cascade with different lyrics. Mike Giles' drumming is in particularly fine form on this release.
  

• Stillusion - Pete Sinfield (1973, 1993 on CD with extra tracks marked *)
  1. Can You Forgive a Fool *
  2. The Night People
  3. Will It Be You
  4. Hanging Fire *
  5. A House of Hopes and Dreams
  6. Wholefood Boogie
  7. The Piper
  8. Under the Sky
  9. Envelopes of Yesterday
  10. The Song of the Sea Goat
  11. Still

  Notes: Even though this album appeared 4 years after the birth of King Crimson, the writing on it makes one reason clear why the above album by Giles, Giles & Fripp was not a King Crimson album - Pete Sinfield was missing! (The other reason was Ian McDonald was missing.) Sinfield displays a wide range of styles on this effort - the lament of love gone wrong (Can You Forgive a Fool), gritty inner city decadence (The Night People), country & western (Will It Be You), mythical medieval ballads (The Piper & The Song of the Sea Goat, Still), etc., even a King Crimson reference (the theme of Whole Food Boogie is essentially the same as in KC's Cat Food, but with an entirely different sound). Furthermore, Pete is supported by a cast of musicians which are first rate, with several King Crimson alumni providing guest appearances, including Mel Collins, John Wetton, and Greg Lake. Can you forgive a Fool and Hanging Fire didn't appear on the 1973 release, but were added to the 1993 CD version when the sequel to Still didn't materialize. I, for one, hope that Pete will take time out from his current duties as producer/lyricist to put out another disc of his own!

  

• No Pussyfooting - Robert Fripp & Brian Eno (1973)
  1. The Heavenly Music Corporation
  2. Swastika Girls

  Notes: An awesome collaboration. The tape-looping Fripp and Eno explored here would evolve over the years first into Frippertronics and finally into Soundscapes, as well as into Eno's ambient music.

  

• Evening Star - Robert Fripp & Brian Eno (1975)
  1. Wind on Water
  2. Evening Star
  3. Evensong
  4. Wind on Wind
  5. An Index of Metals

  Notes: Another great collaboration. In some ways even more inviting than the first.

  

• Exposure - Robert Fripp (1979)
  1. Preface
  2. You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette
  3. Breathless
  4. Disengage
  5. North Star
  6. Chicago
  7. NY3
  8. Mary
  9. Exposure
  10. Haaden Two
  11. Urban Landscape
  12. I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough Of You
  13. First Inaugural Address to I.A.C.E. Sherborne House
  14. Water Music
  15. Here Comes the Flood
  16. Water Music II
  17. Postscript

  Notes: Fripp's first solo LP. Was originally part of a trilogy, the other two being Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs and Peter Gabriel's Peter Gabriel II. Guest vocals by Daryl Hall, Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill and Terre Roche. Also Tony Levin (among others) plays, which led to the next incarnation of King Crimson.

  

• God Save the King - Robert Fripp & the League of Gentlemen (1980)
  1. God Save the King
  2. Under Heavy Manners
  3. Heptaparaparshinokh
  4. Inductive Resonance
  5. Cognitive Dissonance
  6. Dislocated
  7. H.G.Wells
  8. Eye Needles
  9. Trap

  Notes: A Fripp Dance Band. Dance? I guess we can forgive him - it was after all the tail end of the seventies.... David Byrne on guest vocals.

  

• Let the Power Fall - Robert Fripp (1981)
  1. 1984
  2. 1985
  3. 1986
  4. 1987
  5. 1988
  6. 1989

  Notes: Fripp takes the looping he learned from Brian Eno, expands it and takes it on the road and in the studio as Frippertronics. On the road, Fripp soloed over the basic loop tracks. Unfortunately, on the album the solos do not appear.

  

• Keep On Doin' - The Roches (1982)
  1. The Hallelujah Chorus
  2. Losing True
  3. Steady with the Maestro
  4. The Largest Elizabeth in the World
  5. On the Road to Fairfax County
  6. I Fell in Love
  7. The Scorpion Lament
  8. Want Not Want Not
  9. Sex is For Children
  10. Keep On Doing What You Do/Jerks on the Loose

  Notes: The second Roches album produced by Robert Fripp. I like it even better than their debut. Fripp appears on several tracks, my favorites are Losing True, The Scorpion Lament, Sex is for Children and the title track. Tony Levin and Bill Bruford also make appearances on the album. There is quite a range of material on the album. Tracks 4 & 8 display their quirky humor, track 5 might have fit well in the repetoire of a group like Pentangle, tracks 3 & 6 make statements about modern love, and all the tracks exhibit the Roche sisters unusual harmonies, even track 1, although that is the one track on the album I usually don't have the patience to sit through.

  

• I Advanced Masked - Robert Fripp & Andy Summers (1982)
  1. I Advanced Masked
  2. Under Bridges of Silence
  3. China Yellow Leader
  4. In the Cloud (?) Forest
  5. New Marimba
  6. Girl on a Swing
  7. Hardy Country
  8. The Truth of Skies
  9. Painting and Dance
  10. Still Point
  11. Lakeland/Aquarelle
  12. Seven on Seven
  13. Stultified

  Notes: Andy Summers is the guitarist from the Police. He has since done work in jazz fusion. But neither his Police days nor his solo career comes close to the material produced by the collaboration with Fripp.

  

• Bewitched - Robert Fripp & Andy Summers (1984)
  1. Parade
  2. What Kind of Man Reads Playboy
  3. Begin the Day
  4. Train
  5. Bewitched
  6. Tribe
  7. Maquillage
  8. Guide
  9. Forgotten Steps
  10. Image and Likeness

  Notes: This proves that the previous album was no accident. I like it even better than I Advanced Masked, though I've heard the opposite opinion expressed. Still sounds fresh 17 years later.

  

• Low Flying Aircraft - Low Flying Aircraft (1987)
  1. Sybilization
  2. Fourth Dimension
  3. Baptism By Fire
  4. Poolside
  5. Abstract Blue
  6. Moronathon
  7. Amnesia
  8. Reflection
  9. What Did You Do
  10. Radically Conservative

  Notes: Personnel includes 2 ex-Crimso's: David Cross and Keith Tippett. Parts remind me of Gentle Giant.

  

• A Show of Hands - League of Crafty Guitarists (1991)
  1. Listen
  2. Eye of the Needle
  3. Askesis
  4. Bicycling to Afghanistan
  5. Here Comes My Sweetie
  6. An Easy Way
  7. Scaling the Whales
  8. The Moving Force
  9. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur
  10. This Yes
  11. Are You Abel? (Ready and Able to Rock 'n Roll)
  12. Spasm for Juanita
  13. Hard Times
  14. Burning Siesta
  15. Empty Magazine
  16. Circulation
  17. Chiara
  18. Asturias
  19. Ease God's Sorrow

  Notes: The League of Crafty Guitarists emerged from Fripp's Guitar Craft Classes. (I was unaware of this CD when my wife and I chose Chiara as the name of our second daughter.)

  

• 1999 - Robert Fripp (1994)
  1. 1999
  2. 2000
  3. 2001
  4. Interlude
  5. 2002

  Notes: Soundscapes are a modern version of Frippertronics. IMHO, they are a vast improvement over the original. Recorded live in Argentina.

  

• Ghost Dance - Michael Giles & Jamie Muir (1995)
  1. Ghost Dance
  2. Scratching the Curve
  3. Spillers Village
  4. Cascade
  5. Screenwash
  6. Mouthwork
  7. Snake Dance
  8. The Moving Cymbal
  9. Metalwork
  10. Slow Motion
  11. Cargo
  12. Pascale
  13. Blue Dance
  14. Ghost Dance Reprise
  15. The Trial

  Notes: Besides Giles & Muir, the album features loop guitarist David Cunningham. The album was originally a score for a film of the same title circa 1983, but the film was never released as I understand it. I'm glad they decided to release the CD. Being a film score notwithstanding, the (entirely instrumental) CD has rather interesting passages, and its good to hear a collaboration from these two exceptional Crimson percussionists. I understand Muir has given up music entriely now in favor of visual art, but should he ever return to audio art, I'm sure he'd have a number of eager fans waiting to hear his next move. And Michael, how about some more from you?!

  

• A Blessing of Tears - Robert Fripp (1995)
  1. The Cathedral of Tears
  2. First Light
  3. Midnight Blue
  4. Reflection I
  5. Second Light
  6. A Blessing of Tears
  7. Returning I
  8. Returning II

  Notes: A soundscapes album inspired by the loss of Fripp's mother.

  

• Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx - The League of Gentlemen (1996)
  1. Inductive Resonance
  2. Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx I
  3. Trap
  4. Boy at Piano
  5. Heptaparaparshinokh
  6. Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx II
  7. Christian Children Marching, Singing
  8. Ooh! Mr. Fripp
  9. Dislocated
  10. Minor Man
  11. Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx III
  12. Farewell Johnny Brill
  13. Inductive Resonance

  Notes: Fripp's dance band. Official live 'bootleg' from live shows from 1980.

  

• The Gates of Paradise - Robert Fripp (1997)
  1. The Outer Darkness
     1. The Outer Darkness
     2. Perimeter I
     3. Perimeter II
     4. Wailing I
     5. Perimeter III
     6. Wailing II
     7. Perimeter IV
     8. Wailing III
     9. Black Light
     10. A Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth

  2. The Gates of Paradise
     1. Abandonment to Divine Providence
     2. Pie Jesu

  3. The Outer Darkness
     11. In Fear and Trembling Of The Lord

     The Gates of Paradise

     3. Sometimes God Hides

     4. Acceptance

  Notes: Another Soundscapes album - a sort of companion to A Blessing of Tears.

  

• Exiles - David Cross (1997)
  1. Exiles
  2. Tonk
  3. Slippy Slide
  4. Duo
  5. This is Your Life
  6. Fast
  7. Troppo
  8. Here

  Notes: Guest artists include: Robert Fripp (tracks 4 & 8), John Wetton (track 1), Peter Sinfield (track 5), Peter Hammill (track 8).

  

• Sacred Songs - Daryl Hall (1999)
  1. Sacred Songs
  2. Something in 4/4 Time
  3. Babs and Babs
  4. Urban Landscape
  5. NYCNY
  6. The Farther Away I Am
  7. Why Was It So Easy
  8. Don't Leave Me Alone With Her
  9. Survive
  10. Without Tears
  11. You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette
  12. North Star

  Notes: Produced by Fripp, originally recorded in 1977 (Hall's first solo album), but squelched by Hall's record company (due to perceived lack of commercial potential) until 1980. The last two bonus tracks were not on the original, but instead on Fripp's Exposure, along with several more collaborations with Hall. Due to contractural obligations, Fripp had to re-record those tracks on Exposure with different vocalists, except for the two bonus tracks here. I believe the album was re-mastered by Fripp for the 1999 release. Considered by many to be Hall's masterpiece, Fripp appears on several tracks, and NYCNY alone makes it worth the price of admission.

  

• Drivers Eyes - Ian McDonald (1999)
  1. Overture
  2. In Your Hands
  3. You Are a Part of Me
  4. Sax Fifth Avenue
  5. Forever and Ever
  6. Saturday Night in Tokyo
  7. Hawaii
  8. Straight Back to You
  9. If I Was
  10. Demimonde
  11. Let There Be Light

  Notes: Guest artists include: Mike Giles (tracks 3 & 10), Steve Hackett (tracks 3 & 8), John Wetton (track 5), Lou Gramm (track 8), Peter Frampton (track 9), Gary Brooker & Peter Sinfield (track 11). The CD received a luke-warm critical response, however I think it is quite good. It definitely grows on you! I submitted a review to the Elephant Talk Newsletter, but they declined to print it, so you can read it here.

  

• The Joy of Molybdenum - Trey Gunn Band (2000)
  1. The Joy of Molybdenum
  2. The Glove
  3. Hard Winds Redux
  4. Rune Song: The Origin of Water
  5. Untune the Sky
  6. Sozzle
  7. Gate of Dreams
  8. Brief Encounter
  9. Tehlikeli Madde

  Notes: A tasty offering from Trey Gunn (8, 10, & 12 string touch guitars, mellotron, theremin, shortwave, smokey guitar), Bob Muller (drum kit, tabla, bandir, darbouka,bodhran, dumbek, gamelan drum, rik, metals, shakers) & Tony Geballe (electric guitar, saz, acoustic 12-string guitar, leslie guitar, UPS guitars.)

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