Robert Fripp‘s take on Silent Night, from 1979, is a Frippertronics-style looping exploration of Franz Gruber’s carol.
Fripp’s Silent Night was originally released as a flexi-disc with the Chicago based Praxis Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 3 December, 1979. It was also an aural Christmas card from EG Records. This recording is from the King Crimson “Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream” 5 track EPCD (1995).
Frippertronics refers to Fripp’s approach to looping, which uses a long tape loop, stretched between two tape recorders, to allow for live looping and overdubbing. Fripp introduced his Frippertronic playing on the 1973 collaboration, with Brian Eno, No Pussyfooting.
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The essence and foundations upon which the music we listen to today was constructed. 🙂
So lovely, as always. Thanks for this.
The music of my people…
Another interesting reconstruction of Silent Night, composed around the same time (1979), Penderecki’s Symphony #2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBWSBLBMX4