Robert Fripp discography explained

Artist:Robert Fripp
Studio:4
Live:7
Option:28
Option Name:Collaborative albums
1Option:21
1Option Name:Guest appearances

Over 50 years, English guitarist and composer Robert Fripp has been extremely active as a recording musician and a producer. He has contributed to more than 700 official releases. The Robert Fripp Discography Summary, compiled by John Relph, also lists 120 compilations and 315 unauthorised releases (such as bootlegs). This means that more than 1100 releases (including both official and unofficial ones, as well as both studio and live recordings) can be found with Robert Fripp participating. A full list can be found at the location provided above. Major solo or collaborative releases under Fripp's name are listed here, see also King Crimson discography for the group that Fripp de facto leads.

Solo

Studio albums

YearTitleNotes
1979Exposure
  • Released: June 1979
  • Label: EG (EGLP 101)
1980God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
  • Released: January 1980
  • Label: E.G. (EGLP 105)
  • Frippertronics album
1981Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics
  • Released: 8 May 1981[1]
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 10)
  • Frippertronics album
1998The Gates of Paradise
  • Released: 28 April 1998
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9608)
  • Soundscapes album

Live albums

YearTitleNotes
19941999 Soundscapes: Live in Argentina
  • Released: 28 November 1994
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9402)
1995A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 2
  • Released: 18 August 1995
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9506)
1996Radiophonics: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 1
  • Released: 28 May 1996
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9505)
That Which Passes: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 3
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9507)
1997November Suite: 1996 Soundscapes – Live at Green Park Station
  • Released: 1997
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9701)
2005Love Cannot Bear (Soundscapes – Live in the USA)
  • Released: 31 October 2005
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 0552)
2007At the End of Time (Churchscapes Live in England and Estonia)
  • Released: 17 July 2007
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 0701)
YearTitleNotes
1968The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp
  • Released: 1968
  • Label: Deram (SML 1022)
  • Studio album
2001Metaphormosis
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Tenth Planet (TP049)
The Brondesbury Tapes (1968)
  • Released: 01 Oct 2001
  • Label: Voiceprint (VP235CD)
  • With Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield & Judy Dyble
  • Compilation featuring previously unreleased studio tracks
YearTitleNotes
1973(No Pussyfooting)
  • Released: November 1973
  • Label: Island (HELP 16)
  • Studio album
1975Evening Star
  • Released: December 1975
  • Label: Island (HELP 22)
  • Studio album
1994The Essential Fripp And Eno
  • Released: 11 Mar 1994
  • Label: Venture (CDVE920)
  • Compilation
  • Includes the previously unissued four-part 'Healthy Colours' session from 1979
2005The Equatorial Stars
  • Released: 5 April 2005
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 0402)
  • Studio album
2006The Cotswold Gnomes/Beyond Even (1992–2006)
  • Released: 23 October 2006
  • Label: Discipline (DGMLive 1099)
  • Live album
  • Renamed Beyond Even (1992–2006) for CD release
201128 May 1975 Olympia Paris, France/Live In Paris 28.05.1975
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: DGMLive.com (DGMLive 1340)
  • Live album
  • Renamed Live In Paris 28.05.1975 for CD release
YearTitleNotes
1981The League of Gentlemen
  • Released: February 1981
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 9)
  • Studio album
1985God Save The King
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: E.G. (EEGCD9)
  • Compilation album
1996Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx
  • Released: 11 June 1996
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9602)
  • Official live bootleg
YearTitleNotes
1986Live!
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: E.G. (EEGCD 43)
  • Live album
  • Co-production
The Lady or the Tiger (Toyah And Fripp featuring The League Of Crafty Guitarists)
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: E.G. (EGED 44)
1991Show of Hands
  • Released: 15 March 1991
  • Label: E.G. (EEG 2102-2)
  • Studio album
  • Production
Live II
  • Released: 1991
  • Label: Guitar Craft Services (CGCD 002)
  • Live album
1995Intergalactic Boogie Express: Live in Europe 1991
  • Released: 10 July 1995
  • Label: Discipline (DGM 9502)
  • Live album
  • Co-production

David Sylvian & Robert Fripp

YearTitleNotes
1993The First Day
  • Released: 5 July 1993
  • Label: Virgin (V2712)
  • Studio album
  • Co-production
Jean the Birdman
  • Released: 16 Aug 1993
  • Label: Virgin (VSCDT1462)
  • Single
  • Co-production
Darshan (The Road to Graceland)
  • Released: 06 Dec 1993
  • Label: Virgin (SYLCD1)
  • Remix EP
  • Co-production
1994
  • Released: 1 October 1994
  • Label: Virgin (Damage 1)
  • Live album
  • Co-production
Japan Night/Live In JapanReleased: 1994

Label: Limelight (LV008)

  • Live VHS/LD

Travis & Fripp

YearTitleNotes
2008Thread
  • Released: 23 September 2008
  • Label: Panegyric (gyrcd001)
  • Studio album
2010Live at Coventry Cathedral
  • Released: 21 September 2010
  • Label: Panegyric (gyrcd004)
  • Studio album
2012Follow
  • Released: 30 October 2012
  • Label: Panegyric (GYRSP1)
  • Studio album
2014Discretion
  • Released: 22 September 2014
  • Label: Panegyric (GYRSP2)
  • Studio album
2018Between The Silence
  • Released: 6 July 2018
  • Label: Panegyric (GYRCD301)
  • Live album

Collaborative albums

YearArtistTitleNotes
1982Andy Summers & Robert FrippI Advance Masked
  • Released: October 1982
  • Label: A&M (AMLH 64913)
1984Bewitched
  • Released: September 1984
  • Label: A&M (AMLX 68569)
1991Sunday All Over The WorldKneeling at the Shrine
  • Released: 7 May 1991
  • Label: E.G. (EEG 2101-2)
1993The Robert Fripp String QuintetThe Bridge Between
  • Released: 1993
  • Label: Discipline (DR 9303 2)
1994FFWDFFWD
  • Released: 11 July 1994
  • Label: Inter-Modo (inta 001 cd)
1995Cheikha Rimitti Featuring Robert Fripp and FleaCheikha
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Absolute Records (Damage 1)
1999Bill Rieflin/Robert Fripp/Trey GunnThe Repercussions of Angelic Behavior
  • Released: 9 November 1999
  • Label: First World Music (FWD 99.06)
2000Fayman & FrippA Temple in the Clouds
  • Released: 2000
  • Label: Projekt (PROJEKT 104)
2001BPM&MXtraKcts & ArtifaKcts
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Papa Bear Records (PBCD5)
2011Robert Fripp and The Orchestra of Crafty GuitaristsChiesa Santa Maria Della Pace Sassoferrato, Ancona, Italy (26 March 2010)
  • Released: 2011
  • Label: Possible Records (740020)
  • Live DVD
  • With The Orchestra of Crafty Guitarists
2013David Cross, Robert FrippStarless Starlight
  • Released: 2015
  • Label: Noisy Records (NOISY007)
2021The Grid / Robert FrippLeviathan
  • Released: 2021
  • Label: Discipline Global Mobile (DGMSP102)

Guest appearances

YearTitleNotes
1970H to He, Who Am the Only One
  • Released: December 1970
  • Label: Charisma
With Van der Graaf Generator
  • Guitar on track No. 3 "The Emperor in His War Room"
1971Septober Energy
  • Released: 1971
With Centipede
  • Producer
Colin Scot
  • Released: 1971 (UAG 29154)
With Colin Scot
  • Guitar
  • Credited as "Bob Fripp (Herbalist!)"
  • Released: 1971
With Peter Hammill
  • Electric guitar on tracks "Imperial Zeppelin", "Sunshine", "Child", "Viking", "The Birds" and "I Once Wrote Some Poems"
Pawn Hearts
  • Released: October 1971
  • Label: Charisma (CAS 1051)
With Van der Graaf Generator
1972Blueprint
  • Released: 1972
With Keith Tippett
  • Producer
Matching Mole's Little Red Record
  • Released November 1972
With Matching Mole
  • Producer
1973Ovary Lodge
  • Released: 1973
With Keith Tippett, Roy Babbington & Frank Perry
  • Producer
1974Here Come the Warm Jets
  • Released: January 1974
With Brian Eno
  • Guitar on "Baby's on Fire", "Driving me Backwards", "Blank Frank"
1975Another Green World
  • Released: September 1975
With Brian Eno
  • Guitar on "St. Elmo's Fire", "I'll Come Running", "Golden Hours"
1977Peter Gabriel
  • Released: 25 February 1977
  • Label: Atco
With Peter Gabriel
  • Electric & classical guitars, banjo
Magic Is A Child
  • Released: September 1977
With Nektar
  • Under Walt Nektroid pseudonym
  • Guitar on "Train From Nowhere"
"Heroes"
  • Released: 14 October 1977
  • Label: RCA (PL 12522)
With David Bowie
  • Also with Brian Eno
  • Lead guitar on tracks "Beauty and the Beast" and "Heroes"
Before and After Science
  • Released: December 1977
With Brian Eno
  • Guitar on "King's Lead Hat"
1978Peter Gabriel
  • Released: 3 June 1978
  • Label: Charisma, Atlantic
With Peter Gabriel
  • Producer
  • Electric guitar on tracks "On the Air","Mother of Violence","White Shadow" & "Perspective"; acoustic guitar on "White Shadow"; Frippertronics on "Exposure"
Along the Red Ledge
  • Released: August 1978
With Hall & Oates
  • Guitar on "Don't Blame It on Love"
Parallel Lines
  • Released: September 1978
  • Label: Chrysalis (CHR 1192)
With Blondie
  • Guitar on track No. 4 "Fade Away and Radiate"
Music for Films
  • Released: September 1978
With Brian Eno
  • Guitar on "Slow Water"
1979Fear of Music
  • Released: 3 August 1979
  • Label: Sire (SRK 6076)
With Talking Heads
The Roches
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Warner (K56683)
With The Roches
  • Electric guitar, "Fripperies" and production
1980Sacred Songs
  • Released: March 1980
  • Label: RCA
With Daryl Hall
  • Producer
  • Guitar, electronics
Peter Gabriel
  • Released: 30 May 1980
  • Label: Charisma, Mercury
With Peter Gabriel
  • Guitar on "No self-control", "I Don't Remember" & "Not One of Us"
Scary Monsters
  • Released: 12 September 1980
  • Label: RCA (AQL1-3647)
With David Bowie
  • Guitar on "Fashion", "It's No Game", "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)", "Kingdom Come", "Up the Hill Backwards" and "Teenage Wildlife"
Walter StedingWith Walter Steding
  • Guitar on "Hound Dog"
Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan-Fisher)Various artists (Compilation)
  • Contributed track "Miniature"
1981Fourth WallWith Flying Lizards
  • Guitar on "Glide/Spin" and "Lost and Found"
1982Keep On DoingWith The Roches
  • Producer
  • Guitar, devices
1986Gone to Earth
  • Released: 23 September 1986
  • Label: Virgin Records LTD.
With David Sylvian
  • Guitars & Frippertonics on "Taking The Veil", "Gone To Earth", "Wave", "River Man", "Silver Moon" "Camp Fire: Coyote Country" & "Upon This Earth"
1990Planet OzWith Inga Humpe
  • Guitar on "Heaven"
1992456With The Grid
  • Guitar on "Ice Machine" and "Fire Engine Red"
WaterWith David Cunningham
  • Guitar (and co-author) on "Stars"
1994The Woman's Boat
  • Released: 24 May 1994
  • Label: Geffen
With Toni Childs
  • Guitar
Lifeforms
  • Released: 27 May 1994
  • Label: Virgin (CDV 2722)
With The Future Sound of London
  • Guitar textures and bytes on track No. 3 "Flak"
Voice Mail (Later re-released internationally as Battle Lines)
  • Released: 17 June 1994
  • Label: Canyon International (PCCY-00573)
With John Wetton
  • Guitar
Flowermouth
  • Released: 27 June 1994
  • Label: One Little Indian (TPLP67)
With No-Man
  • Guitars & Soundscapes on tracks "Angel Gets Caught in the Beauty Trap", "Animal Ghost", "Shell of a Fighter", "Teardrop Fall",  "Simple", "Things Change"
1996X
  • Released: 1996
  • Label: EastWest
With The Beloved
  • Soundscapes
1999Birth of a Giant
  • Released: 16 November 1999
  • Label: First World Music (FWD 99.03)
With Bill Rieflin
  • Featuring Guitars & Organ on eight tracks
Approaching Silence
  • Released: 1999
  • Label: Venture (CDVE 943)
With David Sylvian
  • Vocals and Frippertronics on track No. 3 "Approaching Silence"
2001The Thunderthief
  • Released: 2001
  • Label: Discipline Global Mobile
With John Paul Jones
  • Guitar solo on track No. 1 "Leafy Meadows"
2002Strange Beautiful Music
  • Released: 2002
  • Label: Epic
With Joe Satriani
  • Frippertronics on track No. 6 "Sleep Walk"
2006Side Three With Adrian Belew
  • Guitar on "Water Turns To Wine"
2007Fear of a Blank Planet
  • Released: 2007
  • Label: Roadrunner / Atlantic
With Porcupine Tree
  • Soundscapes on "Way Out of Here" and lead guitar on "Nil Recurring" (from the Nil Recurring EP, included on the vinyl album release)
2011Th1rt3en
  • Released: 7 February 2011
With Robert Miles
  • Electric guitar on tracks "Everything Or Nothing", "Afterglow", keyboards on "Deep End"

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Music Week. 28.