The Robert Fripp String Quintet - The Bridge Between
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Originally released: 1993 Personnel
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Tracks
- 3'42 Kan-Non Power (Moriya)
- 2'36 Yamanashi Blues (Lams)
- 5'29 Hope (A. Dehonestis, J.P. Sinks, arr. Gunn)
- 1'37 Chromatic Fantasy BWV 903 (J.S. Bach arr. Gunn)
- 2'16 Contrapunctus (J.S. Bach arr. Lams)
- 3'18 Bicycling to Afghanistan (C. Golden)
- 5'26 Blue (Fripp, Gunn) => Reviews
- 3'17 Blockhead (Richards)
- 6'52 Passacaglia BWV 582 (J.S. Bach arr. Lams)
- 12'45 Threnody for Souls in Torment (Fripp, Gunn)
Reviews
Reviews are listed in chronological order within each section. Please retain a chronological order when adding new reviews.
Bach and Threnody
Date Submitted: 29-Jan-20
By: tlongo54
"Seems ridiculous to be commenting 17 years later, but that's when I heard it. I recognized one piece of Bach, and then the Passacaglia, and then - without having looked at track listings - waited to see whether the Fugue would follow. Instead comes the Threnody, a visitor from Fripp's solo albums with tape-delay-echo layers. Apart from Chylinski just below, everybody (other comments on the web) hates it, says it doesn't relate to the rest and should have been left off. They don't get it. "Threnody for Lost Souls in Agony" is a perfectly logical title for Bach's Passacaglia in C Minor (as played on the baroque organ), and Track 10 is the answer or reaction or update to it. I don't know enough to tell whether it has any structural or tonal relation to the Bach, although it sure sounds like a fugue (but then that's probably the tape-echo effect.) This is what Fripp found on the far side of his bridge."
Entire Release
Date Submitted: 26-Sep-00
By: Chylinski (hylinski at sa dot ozland dot net dot au)
"To me, this is a wonderful disc. The Bach would not be out of place on a mainstream classical record. Kan-non Power is an excellent opener, and the awesome Threnody reminds me of Lygeti ..
"Where has this been hiding for the last eight years?"
Blue
Date Submitted: 10-Jun-96
By: Christoph Nahrgang (uhrzb005 at post dot uni-bielefeld dot de)
"I am quite sure that everybody has already recognized that "blue" (track 7 of "the bridge between") is some kind of variation of "starless". if not: just listen!"
