Live in Toronto | |
Type: | live |
Artist: | King Crimson |
Cover: | Live In Toronto (King Crimson album).jpg |
Released: | 29 February 2016 digital download 17 March 2016 CD |
Recorded: | 20 November 2015 |
Venue: | Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Toronto, Canada |
Genre: | Progressive rock |
Length: | 126:56 |
Label: | Discipline Global Mobile |
Producer: | King Crimson |
Prev Title: | Live at the Orpheum |
Prev Year: | 2015 |
Next Title: | Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind |
Next Year: | 2016 |
Live in Toronto is a live album by the band King Crimson, released by Discipline Global Mobile records in 2016. The album was recorded on 20 November at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto, Canada during the band's The Elements of King Crimson tour of 2015. It is the second full-length release by the current seven-piece incarnation of the band and featured new compositions never before released by the band on record.[1]
The album has received positive reviews. John Kelman, writing for All About Jazz, praises the new lineup, noting "… with the triple drum set arrangements, twin guitars, reeds and woodwinds, and bass and stick, all played by top- drawer musicians capable of respecting every song's formal construction while, at the same time, introducing interpretive variations and impressive solos, this is no tribute band; this is a Crimson… bringing the music firmly into the 21st Century."[2]
Regarding the new compositions, Dom Lawson writes for Prog magazine, "Part wholesale reinvention, part meticulous refinement, the… new material crackles and pops with exuberance and the infectious thump of hearts buoyed by fresh adrenalin."[3]
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