Live in Vienna (King Crimson album)

Live in Vienna, or Live in Vienna, December 1st, 2016, is a triple-disc live album by the English progressive rock band King Crimson, originally released in a limited capacity in Japan as Live in Vienna 2016 + Live in Tokyo 2015 on 27 September 2017.[1] The expanded album, just titled Live in Vienna, was released through Discipline Global Mobile on 6 April 2018.[2]

Live in Vienna
Live album by King Crimson
Released	27 September 2017 (limited release) 6 April 2018 (full release)
Recorded	1 December 2016
Venue	Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	187:11
Label	Discipline Global Mobile
Producer	King Crimson
King Crimson chronology
Live in Chicago (2017) Live in Vienna (2017) Meltdown: Live in Mexico City (2018)

Content

Live in Vienna was recorded on 1 December 2016 at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria.[3] The first two discs of Live in Vienna cover the entire first and second sets of the concert.[4] The third disc on the original Japanese release was a bonus disc featuring live tracks from King Crimson's 2015 tour of Japan.[5] On the main release, the third disc comprises one of the band's first performances of "Fracture" since 1974, two encores from the show in Vienna, and newly sequenced pieces with excerpts from Robert Fripp's soundscapes edited into them.[2]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]

Writing for All About Jazz, John Kelman praised the album, especially the third disc's version of "Fracture" and its live improvisations, which he called "a primary reason to consider Live in Vienna an essential listen."[1]

Track listing

Disc one

No.	Title	Writers	Length
1.	"Walk On: Monk Morph Music of the Chamber"	Robert Fripp, Mel Collins, Tony Levin	2:31
2.	"The Hell Hounds of Krim"	Gavin Harrison, Pat Mastelotto, Bill Rieflin	3:39
3.	"Pictures of a City"	Fripp, Peter Sinfield	8:40
4.	"Lizard" (The Battle of Glass Tears – Part I: Dawn Song)	Fripp, Sinfield	2:19
5.	"Suitable Ground for the Blues"	Jakko Jakszyk, Fripp	4:46
6.	"VROOOM"	Adrian Belew, Fripp, Levin, Trey Gunn, Bill Bruford, Mastelotto	5:13
7.	"The ConstruKction of Light" (Part I only)	Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn	6:37
8.	"The Court of the Crimson King"	Ian McDonald, Sinfield	7:18
9.	"The Letters"	Fripp, Sinfield	6:14
10.	"Sailor's Tale"	Fripp	6:18
11.	"Interlude"	Fripp, Collins, Levin	2:45
12.	"Radical Action II"	Fripp	2:15
13.	"Level Five"	Belew, Mastelotto, Fripp, Gunn	7:28
Total length:			66:03

Disc two

No.	Title	Writers	Length
1.	"Fairy Dust of the Drumsons"	Harrison, Mastelotto, Jeremy Stacey	1:42
2.	"Peace: An End"	Fripp, Sinfield	1:54
3.	"Cirkus"	Fripp, Sinfield	7:32
4.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	8:50
5.	"Epitaph"	Greg Lake, McDonald, Michael Giles, Sinfield, Fripp	8:47
6.	"Easy Money"	John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James, Fripp	10:07
7.	"The Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row"	Harrison, Mastelotto, Rieflin	3:03
8.	"Red"	Fripp	6:41
9.	"Meltdown"	Jakszyk, Fripp	4:16
10.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part Two"	Fripp	7:00
11.	"Starless"	Bruford, David Cross, Wetton, Palmer-James, Fripp	13:03
Total length:			72:55

Disc three

No.	Title	Writers	Length
1.	"'Heroes'"	Brian Eno, David Bowie	5:23
2.	"Fracture"	Fripp	10:56
3.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp	13:07
4.	"Schoenberg Softened His Hat"	Fripp, Collins, Levin, David Singleton	11:45
5.	"Ahriman's Ceaseless Corruptions"	Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton	6:04
6.	"Spenta's Counter Claim"	Fripp, Collins, Levin, Singleton	0:58
Total length:			48:13

Notes

• "Fracture" was performed at Falconer Salen in Copenhagen, Denmark on 23 September 2016.

Live in Japan 2015 (Japanese bonus disc; replaces disc 3)[6]

No.	Title	Writers	Length
1.	"Walk On: Soundscape"	Fripp
2.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic: Part One"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir
3.	"One More Red Nightmare"	Fripp, Wetton
4.	"A Scarcity of Miracles"	Jakszyk, Fripp, Collins
5.	"Banshee Legs Bell Hassle"	Harrison, Rieflin, Mastelotto
6.	"Radical Action (To Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind)"	Fripp
7.	"Meltdown"	Fripp, Jakszyk
8.	"Radical Action II"	Fripp
9.	"Peace" (Sung in Japanese)	Fripp, Sinfield
10.	"The Talking Drum"	Bruford, Cross, Muir, Wetton, Fripp
11.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Lake, McDonald, Giles, Sinfield, Fripp
12.	"Islands" (Live in Chicago, June 28, 2017)	Fripp

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[7]

King Crimson

• Robert Fripp – guitar, keyboards, mastering, production
• Mel Collins – saxophone, flute
• Tony Levin – bass, chapman stick, voice, photography
• Pat Mastelotto – drums
• Gavin Harrison – drums
• Jeremy Stacey – drums, keyboards
• Jakko Jakszyk – guitar, flute, voice

Additional personnel

• David Singleton – photography, liner notes, production, mastering
• Ben Singleton – artwork
• Chris Porter – mixing, mastering
• Alan Jones – photography
• Dave Salt – photography
• Hugh O'Donnell – layout, design

Charts

Chart (2018)	Peak position
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8]	36

References

1. Kelman, John. "King Crimson: Live In Vienna, December 1st, 2016 (UK Edition)". All About Jazz. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
2. Smith, Sid. "Live in Vienna". Discipline Global Mobile. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
3. Levin, Tony. "King Crimson 2016 Tour Pt2, 1st December". Tony Levin Road Diary. Retrieved 19 February 2018.
4. Munro, Scott. "King Crimson announce new live album". Team Rock. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
5. Live in Vienna (Japanese release) (CD liner notes). King Crimson. Discipline Global Mobile. 2017. IECP-10346/347/348. Retrieved 5 April 2018.CS1 maint: others (link)
6. "King Crimson = キング・クリムゾン* - Live In Vienna = ライヴ・イン・ウィーン 2016 + ライヴ・イン・ジャパン 2015". Discogs. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
7. Live in Vienna (full release) (CD liner notes). King Crimson. Discipline Global Mobile. 2018. KCXP5002. Retrieved 9 April 2018.CS1 maint: others (link)
8. "King Crimson Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved 19 June 2018.

External links

• Tony Levin's diary entry for the Vienna show