King Crimson - The ConstruKction Of Light

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The ConstruKction Of Light
Pain day sky beauty die black joy
love empty day life die pain passion
joy black day hate beauty die life
joy ache empty day pain die love
passion joy black light
And if God is dead what am I,
a fleck of dirt on the wing of a fly
hurtling to earth
through a hole in the sky
And if Warhol’s a genius, what am I,
a speck of lint on the penis of an alien
buried in gelatin
beneath the sands of Venus
Time sun hurt trust peace dark rage
sad white rain sun anger hurt soft
trust night rage rain white hope dark
sacred sun time trust hurt rage anger
rain white light
And if a bird can speak, who once was a dinosaur,
and a dog can dream; should it be implausible
that a man might supervise
the construction of light
the construction of light
Pain day sky beauty black die joy
love empty time sun hurt trust peace
dark rage sad white rain hate anger
hope sacred passion life night ache soft
light
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Adrian Belew: Guitar And Vocals
Robert Fripp: Guitar
Trey Gunn: Bass Touch Guitar, Baritone Guitar
Pat Mastelotto: Drumming
All titles written by Adrian Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto, words by Adrian Belew, and published by Universal Music MGB Ltd/Poppy Due Music/Robert Stevens Music
Recorded by Ken Latchney at StudioBelew - Pro Tools and additional recording by Bill Munyon.
Additional recording at Ade’s Garage, Pat’s Garage and The Apartment.
Produced by King Crimson.
Mixed by Ken Latchney and Bill Munyon at 17 Grand Studio.
Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics.
Bonus track “Heaven And Earth” is performed by ProjeKct X and produced by Pat Mastelotto and Bill Munyon.
Art Direction: Ioannis for Vivid Images Worldwide www.vividimagesdesign.com
Digital Art: Ioannis thanks to Bob Grober
Design: Alan Chappell for Vivid Images Worlwide & Trey Gunn
Photography & Video Images: Trey Gunn
Thank you to Martha Belew, Bill Bruford, Richard Chadwick, Nick Chaires, Discipline Global Mobile, Stan Hertzman, Tony Levin, and Jake Nicely and to Alesis, Celestion, John & Don at Drum Workshop, Euphonic Audio, Fender, Herman & Meike, Johnson Amplification, Korg, Piaste, Roland, Shure Microphones, TC, Tama, Trace Elliot, Vic Firth.
Robert Fripp plays Fernandes and 48th Street Guitars.
Trey Gunn’s touch guitars are made exclusively by Mark Warr of Warr Guitars.
King Crimson is managed worldwide by Discipline Global Mobile Ltd.
#KingCrimson
#RobertFripp

[@juankgonzalez6230]

One of the most astonishing basslines I've ever heard

[@rdm7770]

Warr guitar*

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

Tony Levin once called it one of the best touch guitar bass parts ever written.

[@sandenson]

Based Trey Gunn

[@incognito7479]

HEHEHE I AM A MASKED WARRIA Tony on bass reminds me of Jimi on guitar. Humble enough to disregard the acolades.

[@rinsancrindle7715]

that stick!

[@adke3696]

the more i listen to it the more i like it

[@emporioalnino4670]

i do think its good

[@monger6689]

It remains consistent

[@allotrope2978]

@@monger6689 I wish you were here to see it!

[@vivelagauche3564]

The fact is...

[@allotrope2978]

@@vivelagauche3564 No matter how closely I study it

[@braulioacosta6816]

This is one of my favorites KC tracks ever.

[@fabioosse6474]

...como os sons das antigas deles, raro!

[@InsaneCarville]

This is what I show the younglings who have never heard KC

[@almightyhotdoglady5383]

@@InsaneCarville Yeah, either this or Level Five. Still, as a long time KC fan, this album, Thrak and The Power to Believe are their best albums. In The Court and Red is kind of overrated.

[@tuskact4overheaven873]

@@almightyhotdoglady5383 hell nah red and court aren't overrated in any means, they were groundbreaking and influenced everything that came after (mostly court). That's why they are perfectly rated

[@bobcorbin3294]

I was fortunate enough to see this performed live in Nashville but even more fortunate to sneak into a soundcheck and watch them practice for an hour

[@rembeadgc]

My favorite post-Bruford KC album.

[@samaitcheson7057]

King Crimson represents the pinnacle of musical achievement in a band format and this period of King Crimson, for me at least, represents the pinnacle of the band. Sublime is the only descriptor I have that comes close.

[@ZaphiroAnejo]

We can really picture a dystopian world/aftermath of some apocalyptic event with the last trilogy (THRAK, ConstruKction and Power to Believe) THRAK - Solitude, Fear of darkness, isolation. ConstruKction - Insanity, emotional distress, pressure. Power to Believe - The utter brutality of the reality and how things seems to be going.

[@edwardcumpstey9061]

This is how I interpret this era of King Crimson. It makes even more sense given the dawn of the millennium and the Power to Believe's post-9/11 release.

[@illseeyaonthedarksideofthemoon]

"Coda: I Have a Dream" really reflects that theme of hope in a diseased world.

[@artophile7777]

Listening to this I feel hope

[@PossiblyTheRealSirSqualo]

6:54 A SPEC OF LINT ON THE WHAT OF AN ALIEN 💀

[@grilledcheezvirtualoniisan8670]

I can't believe it took so long for someone to point that out

[@Soft_Machine]

This song is a masterpiece

[@StartsWithACee]

haruko gang

[@Soft_Machine]

@@StartsWithACee a fellow man of culture

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

Song?

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

😳👽😳 speKc of lint 👽😳👽

[@matiasignaciopaezgodoy8000]

God this song is so good on every instrument

[@sentinelav]

Playing this just once in a maternity ward is guaranteed to create a small army of evil geniuses

[@user-ql8zv7yc3b]

私が過去に度肝を抜かれた曲の一つ。究極のアンサンブル。なんて美しい。まるで万華鏡を覗き込んでいるようです。

[@user-wx2ek3uv1i]

Masterpiece of a song and album

[@Baton793]

Tcol fans are legit a menace to society

[@ecIipsed]

@@Baton793 you have definitely frakctured your skull sometime in your life

[@PrimitiveInTheExtreme]

Hypnotic track.

[@internetenjoyer1044]

this is King Crimson's best piece of work (not particularly this recording, but japan and Bonn recordings are astonishingly good). Fight me

[@arekhautaluoma4276]

this KC iteration has huuugely grown on me. darkest, most technical....kind of the penultimate form

[@Blowhard]

I feel it is like a diamond. So precise, pure, intricate, many angles. It lives up to its name. It is one of those tracks like Starless that combines every element of the previous KC phases, but in such a fluid way it distinguishes itself as something apparently totally new. The emotive quality is distinct from their previous works, and even the rest of the catalogue. Like slipping into an arcane dream state. Some of the ProjeKcts convey similar feelings (ProjeKct 3 in particular), but there the structure is chaotic, and here it seems mathematically precise.

[@lsddreamemulator]

This is inKcredible!

[@ColonelJ1]

This one is SO GOOD.

[@sherry-annsasmellyshrew6516]

This is a Super Unsettling Song to me, And it Only Gets More And More Uncomfortable as The Lyrics Begin, But I Like That, I Love it When Pieces of Art Make me Feel Something, Whether it be Unintentional or Intentional, Negative or Positive, it's an Enriching Experience For me

[@LordZahe]

This is amazing, love the vocals and bassline.

[@ninjakanen]

Awesome track, that makes perfeKct sense to me.

[@essuri9494]

i cant express how this makes me feel, but it's crazy. i freaking love it

[@drix_6927]

Esta pieza es toda una experiencia

[@dorinionita4675]

My Word! Amazing bassline, beautiful voicecs. And on headphones...

[@alexandregenereux5024]

King of pure durable creative revolutionary of Experimental Progressive Rock Band of all Time!

[@lucashimself_]

He said pp word😳😳😳

[@katemurphy1915]

This is one of my favorites also...

[@andrewgrant7012]

that part around the 4 minute mark is gorgeous

[@demonicsweaters]

This album is such a masterpiece

[@brigantale]

The tour was incredible! Conegliano It, present💪🏻

[@user-mz6cq5ju4d]

킹 크림슨의 실험성이 극에 닿을 대로 닿은 곡. 최고.

[@lastofvandals.proximetoext1316]

Su ki nao eo!

[@internetenjoyer1044]

Honesrtly, if you replace this album with the live versions of the songs from the Japan dvd, it's in with a shout of being King Crimson's best album

[@fortnitejimmy-ih3dn]

Check out The Reconstrukction of Light - it sounds far, far better than the original and very close to the live versions.

[@clubninja7945]

@@fortnitejimmy-ih3dn It sounds like another album,with all different titles,

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

​@@clubninja7945The thing you found on KZbin was parts of a boxset... that isn't ACTUALLY ReconstruKction.

[@rdm7770]

This is a huge hell yes

[@matthewfinger2381]

A speck

[@user-wx2ek3uv1i]

Health food

[@sorcyboi2848]

Fpaegngiost

[@elpehelagalto6886]

Adrian Belew i miss youu

[@ANTHONYCUSHEN]

8 yrs old, nuclear fusion made sense. This track decades later reminds me of late sixties, the innocence!!!

[@ulisescienfuegos9497]

Este track debería ser considerado gentz

[@gritfiend]

My favorite KC song!

[@wmcampbell369]

I love this album, it is fascinating to here it remixed like this.

[@sheeppf5265]

Do not go to 6:52, scariest shit I've ever listened into my entire life

[@triangulum8869]

The chorus of them just harmonically saying different concepts and feelings goes so hard for no reason

[@hubbardjohnathan0]

Same, it hits me right in the feels, inexplicably.

[@rikuperhoniemi8639]

Best individual 1994-2023 KC song IMO, the way its open up, ahhh '

[@eleidiscos]

la línea de bajo mas violenta de la historia documentada

[@ernestopayamurgui1806]

¡es que no tienen fin! Son y serán , para mi, un clásico.

[@guillermo8975]

Uno de sus mejores discos!!!! 😎

[@Dani_298]

no se supone que era el peor?

[@guillermo8975]

@@Dani_298 quien lo dice??

[@matiasignaciopaezgodoy8000]

Guillermo estas basadisimo

[@zucchinin]

6:56 he said the pp word 😳

[@snapfinger1]

Late period Crim is boss.

[@yarlodek5842]

Blends the Discipline and Late eras nicely

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

I wish there was a version with the extra lines from the KC50 series, but with the original drum track (that version is from ReconstruKction).

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

Yeah, seriously. The lyrics part is my favorite part...

[@petrovic7064]

amazing

[@Self_defense_establishment]

キング・クリムゾン20世紀ラストの作品は私的ベストの「暗黒の世界」に次ぐ2ndベスト テクニックに裏打ちされた良質な音群は見事！

[@merit7720]

I love this song. Long life the King

[@matiasignaciopaezgodoy8000]

LOVE YOU TREYY

[@sarahLovitt]

Omg i love it!

[@JoaoVictor-we3xd]

Legend

[@ogma11]

thanks man. i miss his

[@saqruuusaqruuu3093]

Joya lisérgica saludable y lethal!!!!

[@krayzec]

Esta rola es mi himno, gracias Rey Carmesi

[@RealHIFIHelp]

Nice!

[@condenicolau9160]

This musiKc sound just like the album Kcover

[@Peter_B]

BRING IT ON !!!

[@CharetteOfficial]

Great

[@hillandrewdavid]

Gets me every time

[@user-oe1kx2oz5g]

Devine

[@qweqwqweqwe1592]

so very good

[@diegoq8417]

Trey Gunn is amazing 🤯

[@BrianRamseysg01]

Oh yes!

[@JohanesJordan]

Alien is coming to town... King Crimson is the best.

[@caiosoares2834]

I love the title track in it's entirety, but my favorite part has to be 3:07.

[@interstat2222]

That's when you KNOW it's KC. Reminds me of Three of a Perfect Pair.

[@FrenchToasted1995]

for joke reasons i was expecting 6:56

[@user-ok6sm9nr4z]

Гениально!!!

[@doctorinthezone3494]

6:53 leving this for myself

[@Zappo32]

Math rock pioneers, Art rock masters

[@komitkazi7520]

SuperKaliCrimsonLicious XpiAliDoSeUs

[@emersonMtornero]

The ConstruKction Of Light !!!

[@BLUEPLANETJAZZ]

Pat Mastelotto is the only drummer that knows how to make electronic drums sound great. Even Bruford can't pull that off.

[@aerithnull5081]

Yes he can, and yes he did.

[@christopherjobin-official7440]

But he did tons of times... They're both really good drummers, and I think the Double Trio is proof of both their skills.

[@cajagress6806]

Wouldve fit nicely on League of Crafty Guitarists

[@chronictimewasterdisease]

i fill like half of the song could be cut out and we wouldn't lose anything

[@StartsWithACee]

is there a version of this where pat plays acoustic drums (like what they did with Frakctured on Reconstrukction of Light)

[@DanaClarkDana]

the live version is roughly that I'd guess- it's incredible - far better than this (already really good) version imo: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmGmfIiIoJWFjs0

[@user-yp6id9vd4i]

5:39

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2:19

[@user-yp6id9vd4i]

3:50

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4:54

[@user-yp6id9vd4i]

0:38

[@user-qq6ye8zx8r]

0:03

[@user-qq6ye8zx8r]

2:19 おどろおどろしい。

[@virtualrenegade440]

The posted lyrics on the video the last verse the words black and joy need to be swapped with one another to be accurate just noticed

[@BrianRamseysg01]

The Lizard reminds me

[@marcobugliesi3232]

simply unreachable. I wish i have some weed. I'd go amazingly far. Thank you for your music. I love you

[@typicalamerican2164]

Listening to this on an edible, and I'm somehow dancing to it

[@omundointerno]

Hair raising stuff...

[@henriquemorett307]

Vou pra casa da mamãe e vou levar as crianças quero o divórcio duplo e quero ficar com tudo que tenho direito

[@zenzenzen4741]

As progressive as progressive gets, if not the pinnacle

[@rencecs6720]

I can see this becoming one of King Crimsons ability if Araki ever decides to make an alternate universe stand for KC

[@lucashimself_]

You realize there are no Jojo fans here, right? Only fans of the band, if you wish to talk about Jojo I recommend commenting on a Jojo video

[@rencecs6720]

@@lucashimself_ Well it can be a possibility,maybe if Araki ever comes across this video accidentally and maybe then we'll get another variant of King Crimson. I came here to suggest something that came out of my mind than a fucking 9 year old screaming quotes and references all around the comments section

[@Look_Upon_The_Heart]

@@lucashimself_ there is no need to be rude bud

[@lucashimself_]

@@Look_Upon_The_Heart I wasn't rude friend, just trying to communicate that this comment section is not the best place to talk about an unrelated anime. You should try to understand what people mean before telling them they are being rude, I fear an unhealthy discussion could happen because of a silly misunderstanding.

[@HEHEHE_I_AM_A_MASKED_WARRIA]

Ah yes, my Stand, 「ＳｐｅＫｃ ｏｆ Ｌｉｎｔ」

[@Ofinfinitejest]

Astonishing bass and guitar lines, if only they could have found someone to write some non-silly lyrics...

[@gusdoes897]

I like the lyrics. They are bizarre but thats kind of cool imo. It paints almost a psychedelic picture. The lyrics is just as wierd as the rest of the song.

[@Blowhard]

This is their masterpiece. I still think this is their best album. ConstruKction of Light, FraKctured, Lark's Tongues 4 are peak "audio architecture" Crimson tracks, whereas The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum is IMO their best "chaos track". It's a very stark and brutal album (not as brutal as The Power to Believe, however).

[@user-yp6id9vd4i]

4:11

[@user-yp6id9vd4i]

3:19

[@sherry-annsasmellyshrew6516]

5:49