Three CD live archive release. Much bootlegged, though never heard in even reasonable audio quality, this concert - one of a handful undertaken for Fripp & Eno in 1975 - is routinely described as 'legendary'. Hearing the tapes in fully restored audio quality, it's easy to understand why it attracts such reverence now and perhaps, why the shows attracted such hostility then. No Roxy Music hits, No King Crimson riffs, just a duo sitting in near darkness with a reel to reel tape recorder, improvising over the pre-recorded loops with a filmed background projection. Replace the reel to reel machine with a couple of laptops/iPads/sequencers and the core of much current live performance from Electronica to Hip-Hop was there some 30 years in advance. At the time, audiences responded to such a glimpse of the future with booing, walkouts and general confusion. Thanks to the discovery and restoration of the original backing tapes, it was possible - with much painstaking restoration work by Alex Mundy at DGM - to isolate, de-noise and match the live elements from the performance tapes to the studio loops to produce the final recording.
01 Water On Water 10:46 02 A Radical Representative Of Pinsnip 09:39 03 Swastika Girls 07:44 04 Wind On Wind 02:00 05 Announcement 01:13
Disc 2
01 Wind On Water 09:44 02 A Near Find In Rip Pop 07:21 03 A Fearful Proper Din 04:12 04 A Darn Psi Inferno 04:59 05 Evening Star 05:59 06 An Iron Frappe 10:33 07 Softy Gun Poison 12:31
08 An Index Of Metals 07:20
Disc 3
01 Test Loop I 04:07 02 Test Loop Ii 00:47 03 Loop Only: A Radical Representative Of Pinsnip 10:39 04 Loop Only: Wind On Water 09:53 05 Loop Only: A Darn Psi Inferno 05:40 06 Loop Only: Softy Gun Poison 14:45 07 Bonus Tracks 08 Loop Only: Wind On Water Reversed 09:50 09 Later On (single B Side) 04:56