Live in Vienna, or Live in Vienna, December 1st, 2016, is a triple-disc live album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, originally released in a limited capacity in Japan as Live in Vienna 2016 + Live in Tokyo 2015 on 27 September 2017.[1] The expanded album, just titled Live in Vienna, was released through Discipline Global Mobile on 6 April 2018.[2]
Live in Vienna | ||||
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Live album by King Crimson | ||||
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Recorded | 1 December 2016 | |||
Venue | Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria | |||
Genre | Progressive rock | |||
Length | 187:11 | |||
Label | Discipline Global Mobile | |||
Producer | King Crimson | |||
King Crimson chronology | ||||
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Live in Vienna was recorded on 1 December 2016 at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.[3] The first two discs of Live in Vienna cover the entire first and second sets of the concert.[4] The third disc on the original Japanese release was a bonus disc featuring live tracks from King Crimson's 2015 tour of Japan.[5] On the main release, the third disc comprises one of the band's first performances of "Fracture" since 1974, two encores from the show in Vienna, and newly sequenced pieces with excerpts from Robert Fripp's soundscapes edited into them.[2]
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Writing for All About Jazz, John Kelman praised the album, especially the third disc's version of "Fracture" and its live improvisations, which he called "a primary reason to consider Live in Vienna an essential listen."[1]
No. | Title | Writers | Length |
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1. | "Walk On: Monk Morph Music of the Chamber" | Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin | 2:31 |
2. | "The Hell Hounds of Krim" | Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto, Bill Rieflin | 3:39 |
3. | "Pictures of a City" | Fripp, Peter Sinfield | 8:40 |
4. | "Lizard" (The Battle of Glass Tears – Part I: Dawn Song) | Fripp, Sinfield | 2:19 |
5. | "Suitable Ground for the Blues" | Jakko Jakszyk, Fripp | 4:46 |
6. | "VROOOM" | Adrian Belew, Fripp, Levin, Trey Gunn, Bill Bruford, Mastelotto | 5:13 |
7. | "The ConstruKction of Light" (Part I only) | Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn | 6:37 |
8. | "The Court of the Crimson King" | Ian McDonald, Sinfield | 7:18 |
9. | "The Letters" | Fripp, Sinfield | 6:14 |
10. | "Sailor's Tale" | Fripp | 6:18 |
11. | "Interlude" | Fripp, Collins, Levin | 2:45 |
12. | "Radical Action II" | Fripp | 2:15 |
13. | "Level Five" | Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn | 7:28 |
Total length: | 66:03 |
No. | Title | Writers | Length |
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1. | "Fairy Dust of the Drumsons" | Harrison, Mastelotto, Jeremy Stacey | 1:42 |
2. | "Peace: An End" | Fripp, Sinfield | 1:54 |
3. | "Cirkus" | Fripp, Sinfield | 7:32 |
4. | "Indiscipline" | Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin | 8:50 |
5. | "Epitaph" | Greg Lake, McDonald, Michael Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | 8:47 |
6. | "Easy Money" | John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James, Fripp | 10:07 |
7. | "The Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row" | Harrison, Mastelotto, Rieflin | 3:03 |
8. | "Red" | Fripp | 6:41 |
9. | "Meltdown" | Jakszyk, Fripp | 4:16 |
10. | "Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Two" | Fripp | 7:00 |
11. | "Starless" | Bruford, David Cross, Wetton, Palmer-James, Fripp | 13:03 |
Total length: | 72:55 |
No. | Title | Writers | Length |
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1. | "'Heroes'" | Brian Eno, David Bowie | 5:23 |
2. | "Fracture" | Fripp | 10:56 |
3. | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | 13:07 |
4. | "Schoenberg Softened His Hat" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, David Singleton | 11:45 |
5. | "Ahriman's Ceaseless Corruptions" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton | 6:04 |
6. | "Spenta's Counter Claim" | Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton | 0:58 |
Total length: | 48:13 |
Notes
No. | Title | Writers | Length |
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1. | "Walk On: Soundscape" | Fripp | |
2. | "Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part One" | Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir | |
3. | "One More Red Nightmare" | Fripp, Wetton | |
4. | "A Scarcity of Miracles" | Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins | |
5. | "Banshee Legs Bell Hassle" | Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto | |
6. | "Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)" | Fripp | |
7. | "Meltdown" | Fripp, Jakszyk | |
8. | "Radical Action II" | Fripp | |
9. | "Peace" (Sung in Japanese) | Fripp, Sinfield | |
10. | "The Talking Drum" | Bruford, Cross, Muir, Wetton, Fripp | |
11. | "21st Century Schizoid Man" | Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp | |
12. | "Islands" (Live in Chicago, June 28, 2017) | Fripp |
Credits adapted from liner notes.[7]
King Crimson
Additional personnel
Chart (2018) | Peak position |
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US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] | 36 |
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