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Uncut JUNE 2022 - by Jon Dale

ROBERT FRIPP: EXPOSURES

Mammoth box from King Crimson founder, documenting his first solo flourish

Even by Fripp's standards, this Exposures box is excessive - with twenty-five CDs, three DVDs, and four Blu-rays packed with audio, it's a deep dive into Fripp's creative output between 1977 and 1983. There are multiple versions of the albums he released during this time - Exposure (1979), God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners (1980), The League Of Gentlemen and Let The Power Fall (both 1981) - documenting Fripp's rapprochements with punk and post-punk, his explorations of his Frippertronics set-up, and collaborations with the likes of Daryl Hall, The Roches and Peter Gabriel. Most fascinating, though, are the first three discs, Major Loops, which set out the core Frippertronics material; some enigmatic live performances, like Washington Square Garden; and a surprising, off-the-cuff assortment of studio outtakes, where you can hear Fripp and his musicians treating Exposure as so much malleable material to re-shape and re-formulate.

EXTRAS: Scrapbook with notes; assorted memorabilia