Title: Crimson experiment succeeds
Product review: Unlike most bands who are lost outside of the three chord, three chorus, three minute song world, King Crimson seeks to move beyond such conventionality and into experimentation. On Thrakattak, they include improvisations recorded live on their 1995 tour. At first, I was skeptical as to how these improvisations would stand together sans the composed material that was also part of the performance. But quickly, my fears dispersed as I listened. Crimson has always been a great improvisational band, and the talent for making these instrumentals interesting shows through here. This album is all the more needed as an antidote to the pre-programmed pop that pervades the airwaves in 2000.
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