Here’s the writeup:

Advance copies now available. This new California Guitar Trio CD features arrangements of an eclectic variety of CGT favorites, and includes a never before released studio version of Bohemian Rhapsody. Produced by CGT sound man Tyler Trotter. Featuring guests appearances by Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, Tom Griesgraber, Jamie Masefield, Pamelia Kursten, Tyler Trotter and more. The Louisville Weekly says: “The Trio’s 12:20 version of Pink Floyd’s Echoes will redefine what it means to play guitar.”
01. The Cruel Sea
02. Music for a Found Harmonium
03. Unmei
04. Echoes
05. Tubular Bells
06. Pastorale
07. Bohemian Rhapsody
08. And I Know
09. Freebird

Over at DGMLive.com we find several photos from the recent rehearsals that took place in Nashville in preparation for touring this August.

Check out DGM’s website for all of the photos!

(Thanks to commenter Ela, who gives us the news regarding an audio sample from the rehearsals!)

http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?artist=16&show=1314

Please accept my apologies for downtime experienced today and for the trash that was displayed at this space during that time.

We’ve taken some serious steps in buttoning things down a bit and we feel that at this time we are relatively secure, as secure as the internet allows in any case.

Again, please accept our sincerest apologies.

I’m sure you all share similar feelings towards those who caused the nuisance earlier today.

Thank you all for the emails of concern!

As has become almost a sort of tradition, Nashville will be the public warmup location of choice for this August’s Crim tour.  You’ll find a pair of dates, August 2nd, and 3rd at the Belcourt where the mighty Crim will once again awaken from its slumber.

Belcourt is not a terribly huge venue, (about 334 seats or so), so expect these to go fast!

Click HERE to get your tickets!

What gives this a Crim spin is that this album features some guest appearances from Pat Mastelotto and Gavin Harrison amongst many others, in fact, here’s a snippet of the writeup:

A distinctive combination of beautifully detailed songwriting, haunting melodies and inventively cinematic production, ‘Schoolyard Ghosts’ sees Tim and Steven expanding the band’s sonic palette yet again by collaborating with (amongst others) Californian pedal steel guitar ace Bruce Kaphan (American Music Club, Red House Painters), drummers Pat Mastelotto(King Crimson, Mastica) and Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson), saxophonist/flautist Theo Travis, and the London Session Orchestra arranged by Dave Stewart(Hatfield & The North, Egg, Stewart & Gaskin etc).

 A new no-man album by itself it’s pretty exciting, but add in these other elements, and you’ve certainly piqued my interest!  Further details are available at no-man’s site linked above or check out the album’s minisite HERE and be sure to check out the haunting video!

Anyways, Jeremy Frindel directed this music video of the song, “Speedbump”, from the Stickman CD which came out late last year.

Speedbump by Tony Levin

After Gavin wraps up the KC rehearsals he’s off to play with Porcupine Tree for a few dates this spring and summer before rejoining King Crimson in August.  You can find more info on the Porcupine Tree tourdate info at their website HERE.  To go along with all of that he’ll be at the Geelong Drum Festival “Drumania” near Melbourne as well as the Green Room on April 29th and 30th respectively.

I wonder how many miles he has on that drumkit?  He’s likely due for an oil change!

The second show at New York City is due to the first show already being sold out.

Bringing together what is essentially a mash up of Dream Theater meets King Crimson’s bassist, their pair of releases over the last several years have met with very good reception and reviews, and you’ll kick yourself missing one of these shows if you have the opportunity to make it to one.

Be sure to check out Tony Levin’s official site for all the details and Metal Underground’s news bit for the details regarding the second show in New York.

Currently there is no word that we’ve seen regarding possible studio work.

In the interview Pat indicates that the current intention for KC at this time is US based residency gigs focusing on existing repertoire and no new material.

Presumably this is to get the band back on the same page after their 3 year hiatus as well as acclimate the new and returning members to life as King Crimson.

If things go well, Pat indicates that a natural progression could follow, who knows?

Be sure to check out the Alterati Ripple show for all the details:

http://www.alterati.com/blog/?p=1827

From the site:

The end result is a wildly varied body of music that we’re able to present to the world in ways the confines of a major record label would never have allowed - from a 100% DRM-free, high-quality download, to the most luxurious physical package we’ve ever created.

Information may be found at: http://ghosts.nin.com

Reported over at the DGMLive.com website Crim’s first date will be opening a three day stint at Park West, Chicago, August 6th, 2008 before storming out to Keswick Theater in Philadelphia for August 11th and 12th, and then wrapping up the current list of dates we have sees them at the Nokia Theater in New York, NY from August 14th-16th.

Keen eye’d people will note that this tour will inaugurate the latest formation of King Crimson which includes a slight shift in personnel as follows:

• Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto and Gavin Harrison.

We’ll keep an eye out for further dates as they arrive, but as always, check with the venue in order to confirm dates and times before making travel plans!

The screenshots at Pat Mastelotto’s site does well to indicate some of the complexity involved in their new foray into this Tuner album. No word on a timeframe, but we’ll certainly be keeping you up to date with all of the latest.

Touring goes across the US making several stops in many places along the way, ending, at this time, in Vienna, VA., at Jammin’ Java on March 15th, 2008.

No current word on if this list is in fact finalized, or if there may be further changes or new dates added, but just glancing, there doesn’t appear to be many open dates on the schedule.  Of course, for the latest accurate tour details, be sure to check out Adrian’s recently redesigned official website here: http://www.adrianbelew.net/

The CD is a collection of music from Trey’s film and scoring projects.

There is contact info as well as a couple of sample audio clips from the forthcoming CD available all at Trey Gunn’s official site here: http://www.treygunn.com

Guitar Player hasn’t posted a link to the article and list yet, but it should be on the home page and news stands in about two weeks. Visit their site here.

Fripp & Eno: Beyond Even: here

Fripp: At the End of Time: here

In addition, here are my best of picks for 2007, including at least one title that will be of interest to Krimson-News readers: here.

Best of the season to everyone!

John

Link goes to the full sized image over at http://wow.Allakhazam.com

Now all they need is a circle of them!

EDIT: I realized something was missing–attribution! The WoGC mash-up was created by Kotor, who has posted a comment as well. Thanks for this great piece of work! Nadim

Thank you all for your patience as we bring things back online!

-Jeff Duke

In order to help raise funds towards this effort, they’ve established a Cafe Press store where you can find a variety of clothing, mugs, buttons, magnets, and a wall clock all sporting Tuning The Air imagery.

They encourage, as do I, to help support them in this effort to raise funds… who doesn’t need another coffee mug?

Head to http://www.cafepress.com/TuningTheAir/ to check out the goods, and don’t forget to visit Tuning The Air at the Capitol Hill Arts Center if you are in the area!  Shows are every Monday until December 17th at 8PM.

I can hear you now, “UKZ?”  In the midst of our outage, (all of the great news occurs during a server issue, but I digress), I received a note mentioning that Trey had joined UKZ, and so I flagged a mental note to check into it further.

Well, seeing as Trey’s site also reflects this, I’m more than a bit intrigued.

During our podcast interview with Trey, we briefly discussed his departure from King Crimson and he indicated he didn’t really want to be in a conventional band any more, so either that consideration has changed, or UKZ is more than a conventional band to him.

And I think that thought is reflected with his new bandmates as well as how this band was put together.

Eddie Jobson is returning to active duty from a 27 year absence from band and touring activity.  Eddie was a co-founder of UK.  John Wetton brought Jobson into the initial lineup of UK knowing his work from Roxy Music in the mid-70’s.

An interesting note is that YouTube was a primary method of selection for this band.  Trey will be joined by several others.

The lineup for UKZ currently stands as the following:

Eddie Jobson: Keyboards/Electric Violin
Aaron Lippert: Lead Singer
Trey Gunn: Warr Guitar
Alex Machacek: Guitars
Marco Minnemann: Percussion

Currently, UKZ is working on their inaugural album for release in 2008 and looks to begin a few dates in public sometime early next year as well.

As always, make sure to check with the venue before making travel plans!

TU was also recently featured on Polish evening news!

This version of Tuner’s 11-11 has drumming by Ryan Smith, and I think it might be one of the very best of the bunch!

You can find the submission at the 11-11 page HERE

One note: I did notice a weird little bug in Firefox, which makes the player stop if you play the track embedded in the page, then switch to a different tab, but this issue does not appear if you click “Play in Popup”.  Please let me know what your experience is in the comments below, there is no doubt that other issues exist with our new system.

Now, on to the news!  From PlanetCrimson.net’s forums comes word that Eric Slick now has his very own official website!

Not TOO long ago, our podcast was involved with an interview including Eric and his sister, Julie, who make up 2/3rds of The Adrian Belew Power Trio.   Click these links for that:  Episode 9, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

His site has quite a bit of content already, for just having been brought online, but the meat is contained in the blog, the gallery, and tourdate info pages.  Make sure to check it out for yourself!

The Media section is so far my favorite.  It features a variety of photos, music and video from Trey’s projects in Quodia, TU, and the Trey Gunn Band among others!

Please make sure to get your order in soon so they can get it out to you before Christmas, as an issue at the CD printer’s shop has caused a delay in the actual shipment of a few days.  Rest assured, they indicate that by mid December, the CD’s should be in the hands of those who order.

At this time, I was unable to locate a track listing, but we’ll see about getting those details as we find them!

No word on possible venues, but my guess is the traditional pocket gigs in Nashville will be set in due time.

*** Update : Chicago’s Park West is listed as the currently planned location for the return of King Crimson in August 2008.  They will be playing a 4 day residency! ***

More info is quite likely forthcoming…

“…received a call from Trent Reznor asking me to work with him on new music…”

Trent and Adrian share a healthy mutual respect professionally, and quite honestly, it’s great to see them back together again after being absent from NIN’s last two studio albums.  Adrian’s work was featured on Nine Inch Nail’s “Downward Spiral” in 1994, and “The Fragile” in 1999.

Apparently this new collaboration begins in December, and from related reading it does appear that it will be work related to a brand new NIN album!

Updates as we find them, but please note that the site is up intermittently at this time due to some interesting Apache server wobbles.

More soon-

 Jeff Duke

***Update:  Looks like some nasty little memory configuration issues have been mostly cleared up.  There are likely a few things left to resolve, so please be patient, and feel free to comment in this story with anything you’ve noticed!