King Crimson - Starless (Live in Takamatsu, Japan 2015)

Starless by King Crimson. Another taster from the new King Crimson album - ““Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind“. As those lucky enough to have seen it live will know, the opening chord of this song are often accompanied by an intake of breath. Like an incoming tide of realisation, all the variations on “I never thought I’d hear this live“, or “crikey, this is my favourite“, “OMG I’ve died and gone to heaven“ and a few more sentiments besides. The complexities behind capturing the seven-headed Crimson on video are described in David Singleton’s liner notes : “It is something of a truism in the history of Crimson that any show that is filmed will not be one when heaven meets earth and the angels descend. The presence of cameras and cameramen iintroduces an intrusive element into the relationship between the artist, the music and the audience. Our solution was to return to the concept of ““BootlegTV““ an