Frame By Frame (The Essential King Crimson)

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Release Date: 1991-10-22

Label: Virgin

Square 12” box with 4 CDs on individual jewel-cases with 4 page booklet each. Included are “In The Wake Of King Crimson" (a complete King Crimson family tree researched and drawn by Hideyo Itoh, December 1989), and a full-colour 64-page booklet.

Cat# information on back side of box:
UK: KC BOX 1
EUROPE: 354 338
US: CAROL 1595-2

Back side of box and booklet back sides:
This compilation Ⓟ & Ⓒ 1991 Virgin E'G Records Ltd.

All tracks are Definitive Edition re-masters (1989) by Robert Fripp & Tony Arnold, or Definitive Edition Enhanced (1991) by Robert Fripp & Tony Arnold with David Singleton, engineer.

CD1: 1969-71
• 1-1 to 1-5 taken from “In The Court Of The Crimson King” (1969). Produced at Wessex Sound Studios, London.
• 1-6 to 1-9 taken from “In The Wake Of Poseidon” (1970). 1-9 remixed with vocal by Adrian Belew, at the Courthouse, Cranborne, Dorset (1991). 1-7 and 1-8 were released as a single. An alternative mix of 1-7 appears on the album.
• 1-10, 1-11 taken from “Islands” (1971). Recorded at Command Studios, Piccadilly, London.
• 1-12a taken from “Lizard” (1970). Recorded at Wessex Studios. Remixed with bass by Tony Levin at the Courthouse, Cranborne, Dorset (June 1991).
• 1-12b is a hidden track; it was omitted from The Definitive Edition re-mastering of “Islands” (the CD was released in Japan and the US in 1989) through an engineer’s error.

CD2: 1972-74
• 2-1 to 2-4 taken from “Larks’ Tongues In Aspic” (1973). Recorded in January and February at Command Studios, London.
• 2-5 to 2-7 taken from “Starless And Bible Black” (1974). Half of the album, including 2-7 and parts of 2-5 was recorded live at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on November 23rd, 1973.
• 2-8 to 2-11 taken from “Red” (1974). Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London.

CD3: 1981-84
• 3-1 to 3-4, 3-11, 3-12 taken from “Discipline” (1981). Recorded at Island Studios, Basing Street, London.
• 3-5 to 3-8 taken from “Beat” (1982).
• 3-9, 3-10 taken from “Three Of A Perfect Pair” (1983).
• 3-13 was recorded in 1983 and mixed at the Courthouse, July 1991 (previously unreleased).

CD4: Live 1969-84
• 4-1, 4-2 recorded live at Plumpton Festival, England (August 9th, 1969). Sound reconstruction at the Courthouse, July 1991.
• 4-3 recorded live at Fillmore West, San Francisco (December 10th, 1969). Sound reconstruction at the Courthouse, July 1991.
• 4-4, 4-5 recorded live at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw on November 23rd, 1973. Mixed at the Courthouse, July 1991.
• 4-6 recorded at The Casino, Asbury Park on June 28th, 1974 by The Record Plant, NYC. Originally released in “USA” (1975). Re-mixed at the Courthouse, July 1991.
• 4-7 recorded live at Le Spectrum, Montreal on July 11th, 1984 and the Tokyo Kani Hoken Hall, April 28th, 1984.
• 4-8 recorded live at the second show, Le Spectrum, Montreal on July 11th, 1984. Mixed at the Courthouse, July 1991.
• 4-9 recorded live at The Arena, Frejus on August 27th, 1982. Mixed at the Courthouse, July 1991.

Track times for CD4 are listed erroneously on the booklet. Correct times are shown; furthermore, King Crimson didn't play the Fillmore West on December 10 1969; they played it from December 11 to December 14.

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