Meltdown: King Crimson, Live in Mexico
• Three CDs featuring over three and a half hours of material performed during the band’s five nights residency at Teatro Metropolitan, Mexico City in July 2017 + audio extras.
• One Blu-Ray featuring over two hours of multi camera HD recorded footage from Mexico City. Audio soundtrack in 24/48 LPCM Hi-res stereo & 5.1 DTS HD-MA, with “picture off” mode allowing the music to be heard independently in pristine, lossless audio.
• Four disc set presented in two mini-vinyl style gatefold packs with booklet including photos by Tony Levin & new sleeve notes enclosed in an outer slipcase
• Mixed by King Crimson member Bill Rieflin from full multi track recordings
Mel Collins: Saxes & flute
Robert Fripp: Guitar & keyboards
Gavin Harrison: Drums
Jakko Jakszyk: Guitar & voice
Tony Levin: Basses & stick
Pat Mastelotto: Drum
Bill Rieflin: Keyboards
Jeremy Stacey: Drums & keyboards

King Crimson is a band that continues to defy conventional expectations. As listeners to last year’s rush-released official bootleg from June 2017 recorded in Chicago discovered, this band gets better by the year. Given the amount of rehearsals, practicing, constantly expanding repertoire base (nearly six hours’ worth of material ready to select from on any given night), wealth of experience among musicians, technicians/sound crew, more comfortable travelling arrangements, better PA systems/mixing desks & the fact that the band is playing, for the most part, in purpose built theatres rather than the more imaginatively named but sonically challenged venues that hosted rock gigs in previous decades, this should come as no surprise. But it does. Perhaps it’s still part of the Rock’n’Roll myth – the ‘hope I die before I get old’ thought process that seems forever associated with rock music that’s proved so difficult to alter. Whatever the reason, the concept of a band maturing, re-inventing itself and being able to present music from a lengthy history in recognisable but ever-changing ways, still with same sense of wonder as if it were newly-written, remains, if not unique, certainly notable.

A few weeks after the Chicago concert, the first part of 2017’s tour reached its final destination – five nights’ of concerts in Mexico City. All of the concerts were recorded and filmed with a view to issuing a definitive document of Crimson live in 2017 & “Meltdown” is the result of that process. With over two hours of HD filmed performance and three hours of audio – including, for the first time with this line-up, audio recordings of Breathless, Discipline, Moonchild & Tony & Jeremy’s nightly Cadenza improvs – “Meltdown” offers a comprehensive overview of a band at the very peak of its performing ability.

Meltdown: Track-listing:

CD One:
Walk On
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part One
Neurotica
Cirkus
Dawn Song
Last Skirmish
Prince Rupert's Lament
The Hell Hounds of Krim
Red
Fallen Angel
Islands
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part Two

CD2
Indiscipline
The ConstruKction of Light
Epitaph
Banshee Legs Bell Hassle
Easy Money
Interlude
The Letters
The Sailor's Tale
CatalytiKc No. 9
Meltdown
Radical Action II
Level Five
Starless

CD3
Peace - An End
Pictures of a City
Devil Dogs Of Tessellation Row
Fracture
The Court of the Crimson King
Heroes
21st Century Schizoid Man
Discipline
Moonchild
Tony's Cadenza
Jeremy's Cadenza
Breathless

BLU-RAY (audio/video)
Neurotica
Pictures of a City
Cirkus
Dawn Song
Last Skirmish
Prince Rupert's Lament
Epitaph
Devil Dogs
Fracture
Islands

Indiscipline
Peace - An End
Easy Money
Interlude
The Letters
The Sailors Tale
Catalytic No 9
Fallen Angel
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part 2
Starless

The Hell Hounds of Krim
21st Century Schizoid Man

The general release is now up for pre-order. Amazon UK currently has the best price (but they show it as an October 5th release while the USA and Canada show September 28th):

Amazon USA
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G1XK9FZ/?tag=imwan-20

Amazon Canada
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07G1XK9FZ/?tag=imwanca-20

Amazon UK
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G1XK9FZ/?tag=imwan-21