Corrections: 1. Too much of my Maths lessons were spent drawing YES logos and not paying attention to angles. I should have said *180* degree turn and not 360!! 2. It's _Derek_ Bailey and not David Bailey 3. I mispronounce "Muir" throughout 🙄
Also the onscreen titles of the songs are missing. And The Sun Has Got His Hat On includes a racist slur which might even get the video pulled if you're unlucky. Apart from that, this was great, genuinely. It really captures the nightmarish-dreamlike feel of the album
No matter what artist/album the documentary is about, if Rael puts it out, I'm stopping what I am doing and watching. Someone, somewhere needs to hire you and pay you a lot of money to do this.
Rael reignites the feelings of passion I had for these groups and albums as a teen. No other reviewer or channel comes close. And as much as I read and heard from articles to interviews, I always learn something new 50 years later!
Oh my - I saw Rael had covered LTiA - I have to stop completely and watch his brilliant work. This is one of my absolutely favorite albums. I grew up with this yet like any other work you do there are always new insights and photos never seen. A major Bravo! 10 minutes in and it will be interesting to hear how you handle Jamie Muir
For 40 years I have been curious what the spoken parts of Lark’s Tongues Part I were from and not only did you tell me, but then showed it! I literally shouted in glee in hearing the judge in a completely different context in its original form. Bravo!
Superb! Yes, it was a real goosebumps momment for me seeing that footage. I've waited 30 years to know what was bing said in the background. Now knowing it's sinister origins (mad women / child crying / hanging) it's even better! Search TH-cam for a kid called "SingingSheep YTPs" he has the whole story.
It has been a quest to be able to discern the vocals clearly. As my audio equipment became better and better it was still evasive but you could pick up fragments. Thanks for laying out just what and where this came from
@@progrockdocs According to Sid Smith’s book In the Court of the Crimson King - “It was Muir’s idea to use voices in this way and Bruford recorded them directly off his radio at home. The play he recorded “Gallowglass” by John and Wiley Maley was chosen totally at random”. Excellent video, by the way. This is one of my favorite albums (I have owned this on cassette, then album, then CD, then album again) and this video is a worthwhile documentary of it.
Pure genius! Have played this album countless times. Have tried to introduce my mates to this album over the years but nobody liked it calling it weird. Thanks for all the info you shared. This album is like no other - unique. This member line-up was my favourite in the long history on Crimson. Out of my vast music collection, this album is the most played. And I never got tired of it over the last 50 plus years.
It's likely the most un-weird album I've heard. It shows people who aren't afraid of new musical ideas and not afraid to try them out in a display of immediacy.
Another brilliant documentary by Rael NYC, this time about King Crimson's extraordinary album "Larks Tongues in Aspic"... It's not to be missed and it's worth watching it carefully, letting yourself be enveloped by the magic and energy of that legendary album... And the amount of very interesting and unknown photos is impressive... Tremendous work by this TH-cam channel which is one of the best out there in TH-cam related to Prog... Thank you very much for your superb work! 🙌
Back in the day, I heard this album and appreciated the brilliance of the music but did not understand where it came from. One night the drummer of the band I was in and I took a certain substance and listened to it on his car 8 track player while sitting on the hood of his car and leaning back on the windshield. Since 8 tracks continue to play, we listened to it over and over. We forever changed on that night and we both completely understand and anticipate each change as it moves from song to song and back again. Now I see it as mind blowing and perfect. Amazing what a little chemistry can do!
After beginning my 2025 with news of the unspeakable atrocity in New Orleans, this video reminds me, on several levels, of the beauty and greatness that humans are capable of. Rael Sir, your work is VERY appreciated and necessary.
Cheers mate, I think we all get what you're saying here. At the heart of all of this (both the original music and my videos) is a love of something and passion to create and share ideas. Together, we will always win.
Woh! LTIA my all time fav album and KC my all time fav band. And this is brilliantly well done, and though you could say I know rather a lot about this band and their music, on here there’s enough new for me. Amazing stuff. So thank you a lot! It increased my love for this album even more… 🙏🌞🌙🤩
I mean, if there was a group of musicians I could see having been brought together by magic spells, it was this lineup of Crimson. They were truly something else, even by King Crimson standards. Those three albums are my favorites of the KC catalog.
Brilliant, lad. This is the video this album needed. Jamie Muir became a legend for me with this one album. You have to be a genius to forever change the way Bruford looked at percussion. My favorite Crim album by the best lineup. My friends also gave me the sideye ;)
This documentary is bloody amazing, mate. Just like the piromancy of Fripp, you have done magic. And as this is my favorite album of all time, i thank you with all my hearth.
I think the problem I have always had in appreciating Larks Tongues in Aspic is that I could not understand what I was listening to. This documentary helps immensely. I shall now listen with fresh ears and understanding. Thank you for this outstanding video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and learned a few things on the way. I'm 75 and started my KC journey with COTCK, but list much more to their later stuff nowadays. Having said that, the John Wetton and Greg Lake vocals are the most beautiful out of all KC line ups. I am going to spend more time with Islands and Larks Tongues this year.
Another fantastic watch Lee. I still recall you describing Larks Tongue in Aspic part one as the most frightening piece of music a description that has stuck with me. I first heard the lp in the late 70's and at first wondered what on earth I was hearing. It rapidly became a favourite though and still sounds awesome to this day!
@@progrockdocs my bad! There isn't another one at all! Then I guess it can't get more definitive than this. Much like In The Court album with regards to Prog Rock.
I watched your Genesis & Yes podcasts and they were wonderful ❤😂 I see your on to King Crimson , another of my favourite bands . Your enthusiasm is a wonder to behold . Thank you so much .
Given Fripp's well-documented prickliness/perfectionism, as exemplified by him going through band members like most of us go through socks, the fact that Bill Bruford served in at least two entirely different Crimson lineups suggests that he had excellent chops, or at the very least was extremely patient...
Yeah, much of that is a reflection of those dealing with Fripp. Heard Jakko's comments about Fripp? I had a brief interaction with Fripp when attending the League of Crafty Guitarists show in 1990. He was funny, amiable and not at all what I'd heard he was like. It's like Citizen Kane or Roshomon. How he appears depends upon the observer.
@ yet stating the amount of patience he needed to do that. On the first rehearsal for that band, when Fripp was outlining what the two drums where supposed to play on ‘Thrak’, BB replied “But I can play both patterns at the same time” whilst a befuddled Mastelotto wasn’t even sure where Fripp was coming from… 😴
This, and the two subsequent albums hold my favourite Crimson moments: Larks Tongues (both of them), The Talking Drum, Fracture, Red and Starless. Super stuff and I was pleased the later band with Levin and Belew chose to play at least two when I saw them. Nice job Rael.
Needed decades to truly understand this- the problem wasn't the music- I wasn't mature enough... on it's way to becoming my favorite album ever. Thank you for this documentary.
Thanks for this video. This album is very importat for me. It taught me that music has no limits, can be adventurous, dangerous and beaty at the same track.
Dear Lee, This is my favorite album by my favorite band, which naturally makes it my favorite album ever. The album is not without flaws-the production was less than ideal, and Nick Ryan, the engineer, didn’t do it any favors. Over the years, I’ve read extensively about this album.... your documentary stands out as exceptionally well-researched. For instance, I already knew the origin of the voices and had even found most of the script, but I’d never actually been able to watch or listen to the source material (being outside the UK probably didn’t help). I’ve tried for years, and seeing it here gave me goosebumps. (It would be great if you could tell us the specifics of this). I also loved that you spoke to Tantra Design’s Pete Douglas-his insights were fascinating. Beyond this documentary, I’ve been following your work for years, and your editing skills have become truly outstanding. If I were to suggest one small change, it’s that the opening section featured too much the Islands and other pre-Larks music (nearly 1/5 of the documentary) that was so different from that of the new band . Personally, I’d have included earlier versions of Larks material, like Mantra or Larks 1, which Fripp teased during the Winter 1972 tour-Denver comes to mind. Also, the voice at the very end of Larks 1 is Bill Bruford reading random newspaper snippets, according to him. I know I’m being a bit nitpicky.... I genuinely loved the documentary. It’s an extraordinary piece of work, and I’ve made a modest donation as a small token of appreciation. Thank you so much for your dedication and for sharing this incredible story!
The voices at the very end of Larks 1 are Bill, David, and Jamie reading excerpts from "Enough of Dying! Voices for Peace" and "The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan".
@@singingsheepytps9240 Thanks! Then Bill is wrong, that's what he says in his autobiography. Edit: I just checked your profile.... so you were the one who made these two major discoveries!
@@singingsheepytps9240 Thanks! I just saw your video (before seeing your answer) and edited my previous comment in which I asked about it. Anyway, thanks so much! It may sound a bit crazy but it means a lot to me as I've been trying to track down these things for ages. Thanks again.
First time I've watched any of your channel's stuff, this is some great work! I really appreciate you pointing at a lot of the esotericism and mysticism the album is wrapped in, it's not stuff I think about a lot personally, and I'm also jawdropped at you actually managing to retrieve a clip of the sample they used for Part I. I'm also quite fond of the covers you used, they capture the character of the album really well.
Fantastic video as always Rael! I consider myself something of a knowledgeable prog nerd yet there is always something I don't know and I always manage to learn something from your videos! Keep up the awesome work
Awesome work. You rule at this stuff. This album was my gateway into all kinds of free and weird music and I will be for ever grateful. Now, how about VDGG's "Godbluff" and the state of Britain in the mid - 70's......
Thanks! I really enjoyed this presentation. LTiA is my favorite Crimson album and I feel that it helped to have the presence of Jamie Muir which added a special, tasty ingredient to the musical bouillabaisse. Bruford carried on admirably with some of that alternative percussionist spirit after Muir left the band.
One of the most difficult albums to hold me in its sway from the first listen, and a favourite since I bought it for the first time in early spring '73. I was lucky enough to see them shortly after during the North American leg of their tour. Larks Tongues in Aspic was a powerful listen then, and remains powerful to this day.
Excellence, explored... As years go by Bartok is the composer from my orchestral upbringing that I keep returning to and I always hear it in Crimson. I appreciate Cross so much in this. Inspired so much by this incarnation
Absolutely. Too short lived, sadly. I remember being so sad I missed Bruford with Yes, I couldn't make the Fragile gig. By the time I caught them on the Tales tour he was long gone. But not 6 months later, I got to see him touring for Starless - which turned out to be the last, and Red tour. So now, I've seen him with AWBH, Yes, KC and Genesis!
I totally understand when you say that perhaps this album is more to be appreciated rather than enjoyed. I think that Larks' Tongues is their undisputed best work. That said, I prefer listening to Starless, Red or Discipline.
Qué obra de arte es este mini documentario, de una obra sublime, tan bien contada que me divido en aplaudir de pie y envidiarle su tan bien secuencia narrativa como sus argumentos musicales y filosóficos. Espectacular !
Esto es maravilloso, aquí parece que se logra atrapar el espíritu de la banda. Es fabuloso poder hacer una escucha del álbum de manera hermenéutica. Realmente no hay un análisis como éste. Tú has buceado en esta música que amamos y has llegado al alma, capturando el texto y el contexto. Gracias, aquí hay un fan uruguayo extasiado.
@progrockdocs no hay límites para el rock progresivo. Hace 40 años escucho a King Crimson y he podido verlos. De verdad, tu análisis es increíble. Saludos!
I thankfully discovered this album upon trying to become a guitar player in the context of a band in 1994 at the age of 22. It gave me permission to try literally anything in a jam.
I came to love KC a little late, not discovering them until 1976, after the Red breakup. This was the first KC album I owned and it literally changed my life and my perspective on music. I've listened to this album hundreds of times over the years and have not tired of it yet. This album, and the next two are without a doubt, my favorite music of all time. I guess that make me kind of weird. Now, I'd love a documentary about Gentle Giant.
Fantastic job! The thing I absolutely adore the most about your vids is how poignant the timing is. Last year, you gave us Genesis while they were on the final tour. Now, we get Crimson as the BEAT crew is wrapping up theirs. Would love to hear your thoughts on that particular foursome playing the 80's stuff!
Great vid, as usual! I fucking love the two title tracks. The second build up in Larks' Tongues Part One might be my favourite musical moment ever... Jamie Muir's flock of geese horns just amplifies the tension like nothing else, and then WALLOP!!
Great! Fantastic! Many thanks! Your videos are by far the best made on YT. Brilliant subjects, and wonderful "production values" already from the beginning a few years back, and - if possible - they only get better and better. (A small correction: if you do a 360 degree turn, you come back to the same position as before. You mean 180 degrees. ;-) PS: Great Bosch imagery used! Fits the music perfectly.
(5AM. 13 degrees doesn't sound cold - but when you're used to more than double that at night it IS cold. I wake up to switch on a woefully underpowered space heater that makes more noise than heat... but not enough noise to drown out the HOWLING wind from the Gulf. Damn it's cold! Damn that wind is LOUD! I hope the architect who designed this building lives next to a busy train track; all long freight trains... and whistles sounding their leaving or entering the yard! Then I see THIS on the 'Tube' and have a perfectly valid reason to put on my headphones!) Rael - thank you! Apart from being excellent it was exactly what I needed!
@@progrockdocs (actually it's Dubai. When you're used to walking outside into a blast furnace of heat, 13'C doesn't cut it.) Another little tidbit that makes no meaningful contribution to this story: My first watch (which I still have) was a red Armitron "Sun/Moon" watch (seen in the left part of the screen at 4:10 of this attached video). Maybe my seven year-old self was being nudged into the Prog Oeuvre? Raelistically, by the time I was seven I was already a fan of YES... if not their music, the posters that my brother had up on his walls. th-cam.com/video/Y_bEU3LtqZY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=QPaJrwPr0v70mMgN&t=250
Epic. Many thanks for this. A seriously impressive piece of work , both the album , and indeed your documentary. Goosebumps. Cheers. All the best for the new year. 😍🎵🎵🤘
This album completely changed my perspective of what music can sound like and what it can be. I remember when first hearing that opening riff of Larks Pt. I after that buildup to it just blew my mind
Great work! Keep going! You make terrific documentaries. Dart Drug by Derek Bailey and Jamie Muir is highly recommended . I’m still recovering from Robert’s Guitar Circle class in NY., and that was years ago!
Corrections:
1. Too much of my Maths lessons were spent drawing YES logos and not paying attention to angles. I should have said *180* degree turn and not 360!!
2. It's _Derek_ Bailey and not David Bailey
3. I mispronounce "Muir" throughout
🙄
Where did you find the footage of Weir of Hermiston?
@@thischannelhasnoname5780 Search for the TH-cam channel "Singing Sheep YTPs"
He is a mini-me in the making
@@progrockdocs He has made two major discoveries regarding Larks, which I couldn't unlock for decades.
Also the onscreen titles of the songs are missing. And The Sun Has Got His Hat On includes a racist slur which might even get the video pulled if you're unlucky. Apart from that, this was great, genuinely. It really captures the nightmarish-dreamlike feel of the album
@@jdmresearch The kid is a genius!
No matter what artist/album the documentary is about, if Rael puts it out, I'm stopping what I am doing and watching. Someone, somewhere needs to hire you and pay you a lot of money to do this.
Mate, that's going on the gravestone!
Rael reignites the feelings of passion I had for these groups and albums as a teen. No other reviewer or channel comes close. And as much as I read and heard from articles to interviews, I always learn something new 50 years later!
Oh my - I saw Rael had covered LTiA - I have to stop completely and watch his brilliant work. This is one of my absolutely favorite albums. I grew up with this yet like any other work you do there are always new insights and photos never seen. A major Bravo!
10 minutes in and it will be interesting to hear how you handle Jamie Muir
That's what iam talking about!!
Likewise for me too. Always more detailed than any other music documentaries.
For 40 years I have been curious what the spoken parts of Lark’s Tongues Part I were from and not only did you tell me, but then showed it! I literally shouted in glee in hearing the judge in a completely different context in its original form. Bravo!
Superb! Yes, it was a real goosebumps momment for me seeing that footage. I've waited 30 years to know what was bing said in the background. Now knowing it's sinister origins (mad women / child crying / hanging) it's even better!
Search TH-cam for a kid called "SingingSheep YTPs" he has the whole story.
@@progrockdocs I've seen an interview with Robert Fripp who said Bill Bruford brought an audio tape of that broadcast into the studio???
@ I’ve read the opposite and it makes more sense it was Muir.
It has been a quest to be able to discern the vocals clearly. As my audio equipment became better and better it was still evasive but you could pick up fragments. Thanks for laying out just what and where this came from
@@progrockdocs According to Sid Smith’s book In the Court of the Crimson King - “It was Muir’s idea to use voices in this way and Bruford recorded them directly off his radio at home. The play he recorded “Gallowglass” by John and Wiley Maley was chosen totally at random”.
Excellent video, by the way. This is one of my favorite albums (I have owned this on cassette, then album, then CD, then album again) and this video is a worthwhile documentary of it.
Pure genius! Have played this album countless times. Have tried to introduce my mates to this album over the years but nobody liked it calling it weird. Thanks for all the info you shared. This album is like no other - unique. This member line-up was my favourite in the long history on Crimson. Out of my vast music collection, this album is the most played. And I never got tired of it over the last 50 plus years.
It's likely the most un-weird album I've heard. It shows people who aren't afraid of new musical ideas and not afraid to try them out in a display of immediacy.
Another brilliant documentary by Rael NYC, this time about King Crimson's extraordinary album "Larks Tongues in Aspic"... It's not to be missed and it's worth watching it carefully, letting yourself be enveloped by the magic and energy of that legendary album... And the amount of very interesting and unknown photos is impressive... Tremendous work by this TH-cam channel which is one of the best out there in TH-cam related to Prog... Thank you very much for your superb work! 🙌
This is the one I've been waiting for. Larks is Crimson's supreme masterpiece in my mind.
Back in the day, I heard this album and appreciated the brilliance of the music but did not understand where it came from.
One night the drummer of the band I was in and I took a certain substance and listened to it on his car 8 track player while sitting on the hood of his car and leaning back on the windshield.
Since 8 tracks continue to play, we listened to it over and over.
We forever changed on that night and we both completely understand and anticipate each change as it moves from song to song and back again.
Now I see it as mind blowing and perfect.
Amazing what a little chemistry can do!
After beginning my 2025 with news of the unspeakable atrocity in New Orleans, this video reminds me, on several levels, of the beauty and greatness that humans are capable of. Rael Sir, your work is VERY appreciated and necessary.
Cheers mate, I think we all get what you're saying here. At the heart of all of this (both the original music and my videos) is a love of something and passion to create and share ideas. Together, we will always win.
Woh! LTIA my all time fav album and KC my all time fav band. And this is brilliantly well done, and though you could say I know rather a lot about this band and their music, on here there’s enough new for me. Amazing stuff. So thank you a lot! It increased my love for this album even more… 🙏🌞🌙🤩
I mean, if there was a group of musicians I could see having been brought together by magic spells, it was this lineup of Crimson. They were truly something else, even by King Crimson standards. Those three albums are my favorites of the KC catalog.
New Rael's Documentary Drops. 2025 is going to be a great year. Happy New Year, Rael.
Brilliant, lad. This is the video this album needed. Jamie Muir became a legend for me with this one album. You have to be a genius to forever change the way Bruford looked at percussion. My favorite Crim album by the best lineup. My friends also gave me the sideye ;)
Totally agree!
For the first time in my life I see a documentary about... King Crimson album! Sensational.
To me this album is the greatest Progressive Rock album of all time. Pure Masterpiece!
PLAY LOUD🎸
Yeah, it’s right up there with anything.
This documentary is bloody amazing, mate. Just like the piromancy of Fripp, you have done magic. And as this is my favorite album of all time, i thank you with all my hearth.
I think the problem I have always had in appreciating Larks Tongues in Aspic is that I could not understand what I was listening to. This documentary helps immensely. I shall now listen with fresh ears and understanding. Thank you for this outstanding video.
The minute I heard this album, I loved it. Saw The David Cross Band play it in entirety this summer and they did a great job. Long live the King.
Cross has done some of the best post Crimson music including his brilliant solo album
Absolute brilliant doc on a classic album !
Real makes the best prog rock documentaries on the internet.
Happy New Year. 🎉
almost jumped out of my chair when i saw this, god do i love larks
I thoroughly enjoyed this, and learned a few things on the way. I'm 75 and started my KC journey with COTCK, but list much more to their later stuff nowadays. Having said that, the John Wetton and Greg Lake vocals are the most beautiful out of all KC line ups. I am going to spend more time with Islands and Larks Tongues this year.
Brilliant video packed with incredible information, about such an iconic album that I was a fan of right from the start 50 years ago!
Another fantastic watch Lee. I still recall you describing Larks Tongue in Aspic part one as the most frightening piece of music a description that has stuck with me.
I first heard the lp in the late 70's and at first wondered what on earth I was hearing. It rapidly became a favourite though and still sounds awesome to this day!
Larks' took me the longest of all KC albums to truly appreciate. Now it's my third favourite, and one of my favourite albums by anyone.
Yup... We weren't ready for the music, and as we have more life experiences and maturity now we are.
Rael...another amazing documentary! Cheers mate, from Chalkpie (fellow PE'er ❤)
This is the definitive Lark's Tongues documentary!
You mean there's _another_ documentary on it??!!!
@@progrockdocs my bad! There isn't another one at all! Then I guess it can't get more definitive than this.
Much like In The Court album with regards to Prog Rock.
...in the mighty Crimson catalog, Larks took me a few listens to get it, and I'm not entirely sure I ever will....thanks for the fun doc, Rael...
Thank you so much for this fantastic documentary! This is the album that started my King Crimson journey in 1986.
Happy New Year, cheers.
A fantastic documentary, it takes me back to 1973 when I first seen KC on this tour in Glasgow, I still remember it like it was yesterday...
This album was my introduction to Crimson, always been a firm favourite.
Many thanks.
I watched your Genesis & Yes podcasts and they were wonderful ❤😂
I see your on to King Crimson , another of my favourite bands .
Your enthusiasm is a wonder to behold .
Thank you so much .
Given Fripp's well-documented prickliness/perfectionism, as exemplified by him going through band members like most of us go through socks, the fact that Bill Bruford served in at least two entirely different Crimson lineups suggests that he had excellent chops, or at the very least was extremely patient...
Great point there!
Yeah, much of that is a reflection of those dealing with Fripp. Heard Jakko's comments about Fripp? I had a brief interaction with Fripp when attending the League of Crafty Guitarists show in 1990. He was funny, amiable and not at all what I'd heard he was like. It's like Citizen Kane or Roshomon. How he appears depends upon the observer.
Extreme patience. You can read about it in his autobiography!
Well, the 2nd time Bill suggests in his autobiography that he needed the money 😉
@ yet stating the amount of patience he needed to do that. On the first rehearsal for that band, when Fripp was outlining what the two drums where supposed to play on ‘Thrak’, BB replied “But I can play both patterns at the same time” whilst a befuddled Mastelotto wasn’t even sure where Fripp was coming from… 😴
This, and the two subsequent albums hold my favourite Crimson moments: Larks Tongues (both of them), The Talking Drum, Fracture, Red and Starless. Super stuff and I was pleased the later band with Levin and Belew chose to play at least two when I saw them. Nice job Rael.
Needed decades to truly understand this- the problem wasn't the music- I wasn't mature enough... on it's way to becoming my favorite album ever. Thank you for this documentary.
Thanks for this video. This album is very importat for me. It taught me that music has no limits, can be adventurous, dangerous and beaty at the same track.
Excellent job ! Thanks for all your hard work!
Dear Lee,
This is my favorite album by my favorite band, which naturally makes it my favorite album ever. The album is not without flaws-the production was less than ideal, and Nick Ryan, the engineer, didn’t do it any favors. Over the years, I’ve read extensively about this album.... your documentary stands out as exceptionally well-researched.
For instance, I already knew the origin of the voices and had even found most of the script, but I’d never actually been able to watch or listen to the source material (being outside the UK probably didn’t help). I’ve tried for years, and seeing it here gave me goosebumps. (It would be great if you could tell us the specifics of this). I also loved that you spoke to Tantra Design’s Pete Douglas-his insights were fascinating.
Beyond this documentary, I’ve been following your work for years, and your editing skills have become truly outstanding. If I were to suggest one small change, it’s that the opening section featured too much the Islands and other pre-Larks music (nearly 1/5 of the documentary) that was so different from that of the new band . Personally, I’d have included earlier versions of Larks material, like Mantra or Larks 1, which Fripp teased during the Winter 1972 tour-Denver comes to mind. Also, the voice at the very end of Larks 1 is Bill Bruford reading random newspaper snippets, according to him.
I know I’m being a bit nitpicky.... I genuinely loved the documentary. It’s an extraordinary piece of work, and I’ve made a modest donation as a small token of appreciation. Thank you so much for your dedication and for sharing this incredible story!
The voices at the very end of Larks 1 are Bill, David, and Jamie reading excerpts from "Enough of Dying! Voices for Peace" and "The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan".
@@singingsheepytps9240 Thanks! Then Bill is wrong, that's what he says in his autobiography. Edit: I just checked your profile.... so you were the one who made these two major discoveries!
@@jdmresearchperfect timing for that question as I have just uploaded a video explaining this
@@singingsheepytps9240 Thanks! I just saw your video (before seeing your answer) and edited my previous comment in which I asked about it. Anyway, thanks so much! It may sound a bit crazy but it means a lot to me as I've been trying to track down these things for ages. Thanks again.
Your documentaries are by far the best I've seen across TH-cam.
I also loved the instrumental versions of KC songs in the background
Epic album from an epic band. Just phenomenal.
Another superb documentary. I patiently wait for these each and every time they are made. They are the best of their type I have seen on here.
What a wonderfful way to start the year!
Thank you so much,your videos are amazing!🙏🙏
First time I've watched any of your channel's stuff, this is some great work! I really appreciate you pointing at a lot of the esotericism and mysticism the album is wrapped in, it's not stuff I think about a lot personally, and I'm also jawdropped at you actually managing to retrieve a clip of the sample they used for Part I. I'm also quite fond of the covers you used, they capture the character of the album really well.
You Sir, are a scholar and a gentleman.. thank you so much
One of my favourite albums! Thank you!
God bless TH-cam and god bless you. I am literally awe struck
Yes indeed!, ..t'was time for this to emerge and give us a good ..er.. great enlightening to those who needed, .. thank you, .. happy new year! .❤🎉😊😊😊
This is a terrific documentary.
It's outstanding! This album is in a niche of it's own.
What a brilliant video. You've done a tremendous work!
Fantastic video as always Rael! I consider myself something of a knowledgeable prog nerd yet there is always something I don't know and I always manage to learn something from your videos! Keep up the awesome work
Brilliant analysis of my favorite album!
Masterful as usual! Thanks for sharing these.
Awesome work. You rule at this stuff. This album was my gateway into all kinds of free and weird music and I will be for ever grateful. Now, how about VDGG's "Godbluff" and the state of Britain in the mid - 70's......
Another fantastic doc. Thank you so much. These are nice little gems to go back to of a rich, bygone musical and historical era. Great work. 👍🎶❤
Thanks! I really enjoyed this presentation. LTiA is my favorite Crimson album and I feel that it helped to have the presence of Jamie Muir which added a special, tasty ingredient to the musical bouillabaisse. Bruford carried on admirably with some of that alternative percussionist spirit after Muir left the band.
Really well written, especially the ending. This record is its own branch of the tree.🌳🌲☀
Nice expression! I like it!
criminally underrated channel, your vids rock mate
The copyright bots would just use the word "criminal".... 🙄
One of the most difficult albums to hold me in its sway from the first listen, and a favourite since I bought it for the first time in early spring '73. I was lucky enough to see them shortly after during the North American leg of their tour. Larks Tongues in Aspic was a powerful listen then, and remains powerful to this day.
The first instalment in what would become a perfect trio of records .
Excellence, explored... As years go by Bartok is the composer from my orchestral upbringing that I keep returning to and I always hear it in Crimson. I appreciate Cross so much in this. Inspired so much by this incarnation
Dude, you should be on tv with these!! More, more and more please....jethro tull?!Camel?! More crimson...plesaaaaeeee😊😊😊
Thanks Rael. My fav KC lineup.
Absolutely. Too short lived, sadly. I remember being so sad I missed Bruford with Yes, I couldn't make the Fragile gig. By the time I caught them on the Tales tour he was long gone. But not 6 months later, I got to see him touring for Starless - which turned out to be the last, and Red tour. So now, I've seen him with AWBH, Yes, KC and Genesis!
Fascinating work. Thanks for this effort.
Great algorithm pull for one of the greatest bands of all time
I totally understand when you say that perhaps this album is more to be appreciated rather than enjoyed. I think that Larks' Tongues is their undisputed best work. That said, I prefer listening to Starless, Red or Discipline.
Mine is Lizard... by a country mile.
I supose that says everything you need to know about this incredible band
Another fantastic video. Thank you for making these. This is my favourite channel on TH-cam.
Brilliant documentary, as usual! Thanx so much.
Qué obra de arte es este mini documentario, de una obra sublime, tan bien contada que me divido en aplaudir de pie y envidiarle su tan bien secuencia narrativa como sus argumentos musicales y filosóficos. Espectacular !
¡Gracias por estas amables (y sabias) palabras!
Once again, thanks so much for a comprehensive and well-produced documentary!
I can't believe I didn't knew about your channel. Instant SUB
Being a PROG fanatic since forever, I can't thank you enough for your good work!
There's a lot of prog here bro' 🖖🏻
Esto es maravilloso, aquí parece que se logra atrapar el espíritu de la banda. Es fabuloso poder hacer una escucha del álbum de manera hermenéutica. Realmente no hay un análisis como éste. Tú has buceado en esta música que amamos y has llegado al alma, capturando el texto y el contexto. Gracias, aquí hay un fan uruguayo extasiado.
¿Uruguay? Eso está muy lejos. ¡Estoy feliz de verte aquí!
@progrockdocs no hay límites para el rock progresivo. Hace 40 años escucho a King Crimson y he podido verlos. De verdad, tu análisis es increíble. Saludos!
Bombastic to serene it conjures up a mixture of sounds & the element of surprise is provocative. Has aged very well.
Outstanding work, as usual. Thank you for your passion and candor. More please!
My personal favorite King Crimson album. Really, it has something for everybody, as long as you're willing give it a shot.
Thank you for the great insights. i loved this album since 1973. Still play it often.
I thankfully discovered this album upon trying to become a guitar player in the context of a band in 1994 at the age of 22. It gave me permission to try literally anything in a jam.
I came to love KC a little late, not discovering them until 1976, after the Red breakup. This was the first KC album I owned and it literally changed my life and my perspective on music. I've listened to this album hundreds of times over the years and have not tired of it yet. This album, and the next two are without a doubt, my favorite music of all time. I guess that make me kind of weird. Now, I'd love a documentary about Gentle Giant.
Watch this space...
By "watch this space" I mean, come back in two months 🤓
@@progrockdocs guess I better subscribe then...
Fantastic job! The thing I absolutely adore the most about your vids is how poignant the timing is. Last year, you gave us Genesis while they were on the final tour. Now, we get Crimson as the BEAT crew is wrapping up theirs.
Would love to hear your thoughts on that particular foursome playing the 80's stuff!
Great vid, as usual! I fucking love the two title tracks. The second build up in Larks' Tongues Part One might be my favourite musical moment ever... Jamie Muir's flock of geese horns just amplifies the tension like nothing else, and then WALLOP!!
Another fantastic album/band documentary as usual, thank you and happy new year! 🙌🥳👍
Wonderful documentary
Great! Fantastic! Many thanks! Your videos are by far the best made on YT. Brilliant subjects, and wonderful "production values" already from the beginning a few years back, and - if possible - they only get better and better. (A small correction: if you do a 360 degree turn, you come back to the same position as before. You mean 180 degrees. ;-)
PS: Great Bosch imagery used! Fits the music perfectly.
Gotcha Doug, what I lack in maths I make up for in prog.
@@progrockdocs Yes, I suspect you have a PhD in Prog, at least. Also: Love your Python references. And so does my brother Dinsdale. 😉
This was the first KC album my mate and I were immediately hooked and forever fans.
(5AM. 13 degrees doesn't sound cold - but when you're used to more than double that at night it IS cold. I wake up to switch on a woefully underpowered space heater that makes more noise than heat... but not enough noise to drown out the HOWLING wind from the Gulf. Damn it's cold! Damn that wind is LOUD! I hope the architect who designed this building lives next to a busy train track; all long freight trains... and whistles sounding their leaving or entering the yard! Then I see THIS on the 'Tube' and have a perfectly valid reason to put on my headphones!)
Rael - thank you! Apart from being excellent it was exactly what I needed!
Sounds like you live in one of those Hieronymus Bosch paintings....
Glad to have cheered you up with some Larks Tongues 😘
@@progrockdocs Rael, if that raelly is your rael name... you have no idea how much I love these videos!
Sharks Lung in Lemsip!
@@progrockdocs (actually it's Dubai. When you're used to walking outside into a blast furnace of heat, 13'C doesn't cut it.)
Another little tidbit that makes no meaningful contribution to this story: My first watch (which I still have) was a red Armitron "Sun/Moon" watch (seen in the left part of the screen at 4:10 of this attached video). Maybe my seven year-old self was being nudged into the Prog Oeuvre? Raelistically, by the time I was seven I was already a fan of YES... if not their music, the posters that my brother had up on his walls.
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Epic. Many thanks for this. A seriously impressive piece of work , both the album , and indeed your documentary.
Goosebumps. Cheers. All the best for the new year. 😍🎵🎵🤘
Excellent video, as they always are. That first album of that era is still my favorite.
Man, you do such a great job on these trips through my favourite albums. I hope you're getting paid for you're efforts.
Ha! I wish. I get a few donations, but in honestly I would pay TH-cam for the system if I had to. Making the docs is a cool hobby.
Great...your back, abd with a belter!!! My fave crimson album!! Fantabulous!!😊😊😊
jolly good as usual...a video about Pawn Hearts please!
This album completely changed my perspective of what music can sound like and what it can be. I remember when first hearing that opening riff of Larks Pt. I after that buildup to it just blew my mind
Happy new years and thanks a lot.
Excellent, as always.
Excellent work👍
Great work! Keep going! You make terrific documentaries.
Dart Drug by Derek Bailey and Jamie Muir is highly recommended .
I’m still recovering from Robert’s Guitar Circle class in NY., and that was years ago!
Bellissimo regalo per l'anno nuovo!.... Larks é sempre stato il mio album preferito dei Crimson
Mio preferito è Lizard!!!
Excellent unravelling.
Another masterpiece, thank you!
Great video, once again!
Very well done doc. 👍👍
The best opening track to an album of ALL TIME