Audio Diary 2014-2018 (Live 5CD Set)

Description
Containing 1CD per year of live material taken from 2014-2018, Audio Diary features King Crimson in its ideal environment - recorded live.

5 CDs and a 24 page booklet - including previously unseen photographs - housed in 3 x gatefold sleeves packed in a rigid slipcase.

The 2014 material has been fully mixed from multi-track tapes by Robert Fripp and Jakko Jakszyk. 2015-2018 performances have been taken directly from the band’s stereo board mixes.

“…it would not be entirely fanciful to imagine Fripp & co. – in accordance with the “Third Principle of King Crimson (‘All the music is new, whenever it was written’) – as the best new rock band in the world.” - Ben Thompson, Mojo

The current line-up of King Crimson - the longest surviving in the band’s half century of existence - started touring in September 2014 and hasn’t stopped since. Now routinely spoken of in terms of ‘best live band in the world’, the band’s reputation has been further enhanced via a series of live releases beginning with the Live at the Orpheum mini-album (2015) and running to last year’s 3CD/Blu-Ray Meltdown set, drawn from a series of concerts in Mexico in 2017.

With a vast repertoire covering everything from material from debut album In the Court of the Crimson King (including Moonchild which was never performed in 1969) through to material from Lizard which, likewise, was never performed at the time, Crim classics from Islands, Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Red & other studio albums, through to material from Fripp’s solo album Exposure (Breathless), radical reinterpretations of 1980s material (Neurotica, Indiscipline), to songs from the current KC band precursor album by Jakszyk, Fripp Collins (A Scarcity of Miracles. The Light of Day) & material newly written for this line-up, (Meltdown, Radical Action), this 5CD set provides a comprehensive overview of 5 years’ worth of concerts - one year per cd - with performances selected from that first concert in Albany New York in 2014, to the band’s penultimate 2018 concert in Tokyo.

This set has previously been available in a very limited manner at the band’s recent 2019 live concerts & is already much in demand as a result of that limited availability.

[tracklisting][CD1: 2014]
1. Hoodoo
2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One
3. A Scarcity Of Miracles
4. Level Five
5. One More Red Nightmare
6. Interlude
7. Banshee Legs Bell Hassle
8. The Talking Drum
9. 21st Century Schizoid Man
10. The Light Of Day

[CD2: 2015]
1. Radical Action / Meltdown
2. Interlude
3. Sailor's Tale
4. The Letters
5. The Court Of The Crimson King
6. Starless
7. Easy Money
8. Pictures Of A City
9. Suitable Grounds For The Blues
10. The Construkction Of Light
11. Level Five

[CD3: 2016]
1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part Two
2. Epitaph
3. Devil Dogs Of Tessellation Row
4. Red
5. Banshee Legs Bell Hassle
6. Cirkus
7. Radical Action II
8. Pictures Of A City
9. Peace
10. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One
11. Easy Money
12. 21st Century Schizoid Man

[CD4: 2017]
1. Cirkus
2. Starless
3. The Letters
4. Heroes
5. Interlude
6. Last Skirmish
7. Indiscipline
8. Dawn Song
9. Prince Rupert's Lament
10. The Errors
11. Fallen Angel
12. Neurotica
13. Islands

[CD5: 2018]
1. The Court Of The Crimson King
2. Suitable Grounds For The Blues
3. Pictures Of A City
4. Meltdown
5. Bolero
6. Radical Action
7. One More Red Nightmare
8. Moonchild
9. Easy Money
10. Level Five
11. Peace
12. Cadence And Cascade
13. Breathless[/tracklisting]

Audio Diary 2014-2018
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WHMQCCN/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07WHMQCCN/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WHMQCCN/?tag=imwan-21

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Vinyl (Expanded 2LP Sets)

THRAK
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WMM8X9Q/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07WMM8X9Q/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WMM8X9Q/?tag=imwan-21

The ReconstruKction Of Light
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WJR9Q4J/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07WJR9Q4J/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WJR9Q4J/?tag=imwan-21

The Power to Believe
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQ1P1BL/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07WQ1P1BL/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WQ1P1BL/?tag=imwan-21

Will consider the cd set but price will be a factor.

DGM shop has it at $35. Tho I'm sure Amazon will have it slightly less. None of these new title are listed there as of today.

$35 for that set is great. Copies have been exchanged on Discogs ranging from $110 to $236. Poor saps!
It's too bad they are only releasing the ReconstruKction of Light as the original mix of ConstruKction of Light has never been issued on vinyl.

The live 5CD set Audio Diary has been listed for pre-order at Amazon UK:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WHMQCCN/?tag=imwan-21

USA and Canada links are forthcoming.

<$35US would do it for me. I think I m in!

Looks like these are starting to appear on Amazon US.

THRAK and Power to Believe are available to order on Amazon Canada. Placeholders for the other two have appeared.

The Amazon links in the first post are becoming active, WAN by WAN. Look, click and enjoy.

The UK editions show the release date as September 27th, but the USA links currently show the 20th. I'm going to leave it as the 27th in our thread's title since Crimson's native UK release date is probably the correct one.

There is also a megabox with CD & blu of both original mixes, new mixes & a ton of live shows from the period.

Yes, for some reason I thought there was already a thread for that, but I couldn't find it.

Heaven and Earth:
US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Q47ZXP4/?tag=imwan-20
CA:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Q47ZXP4/?tag=imwanca-20
UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Q47ZXP4/?tag=imwan-21

I'm going to have to check all my purchases this year, but I suspect this is my personal album of the year (& it's not even in 24 bit!)

I received this a month ago from an Amazon 3rd party seller for $37 CDN. If you dig KC, buy this. All box sets should be designed like this. Easy Money from 2018 is incredible.

It is an awesome collection. When I saw them in Chicago it was available, and I should have snagged it, but I had it preordered. I just did not realize until I was home that the release was still about 4-5 weeks out (and it was cheaper at the shows). But it is an incredible collection from perhaps the strongest version of the band (which is saying a lot as considering how incredible all the line-ups have been over the years).

The current band is excellent. I picked this up at the Montreal show and many of the versions here are definitive. I was really happy that the set closes with "Breathless" from Fripp's solo album, "Exposure". I've played that almost every day since I got the set.