Product Description
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Limited to a single pressing run, Starless offers an in-depth
overview of King Crimson's celebrated mid-1970's live line-up at
its most exploratory.
Few bands have offered as much variety in material from night to
night, and King Crimson's propensity for improvisation and
fondness for playing its newest material - often unreleased on
record at the time of performance - is legendary.
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Two DVD-A discs and two Blu-Ray discs contain concert and studio
s in stereo, quadraphonic and full 5.1 surround sound -
all in high-resolution audio.
Starless is presented in a 12" box with a comprehensive booklet
featuring sleeve notes and photos enty, memorabilia, album and
prints, and 3 bonus audio CDs.
Features:
* 19 CDs of live performance material.
* 7 CDs taken from multi-track tape including 4CDs of material
from the Glasgow and Zurich shows, freshly assembled and mastered
in Hi-Res from the original Great Deceiver mixes by David
Singleton at DGM Soundworld in 2014, the Amsterdam show The
Nightwatch mixed by Steven Wilson and a previously unheard
preparatory of material from the same show prepared by George
Chkiantz (engineer of all live KC shows of the era and the Red
album).
* 11 CDs drawn from high quality stereo reel to reel soundboard
tapes. 8 making their first appearance on CD with the remaining
three re-mastered or drawn from new tape sources.
* 1 CD presenting the performance from the ORTF Paris TV
broadcast
* CD 20 features the 2011 stereo mix of Starless And Bible Black
by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp
* DVD-A 1 features the Starless & Bible Black album in 5.1
Surround, with new & original stereo album mixes in High
Resolution Stereo plus bonus audio material.
* DVD-A 2 features material from Mainz (mixed by David
Singleton), Amsterdam (mixed by Steven Wilson) & a later show
from Pittsburgh (mixed by George Chkiantz) in quadraphonic audio
and High-Resolution Stereo.
* Both DVD-A discs are region 0 playable in all areas &
compatible with all DVD players and DVD Rom players
* Blu-Ray Disc 1 features full lossless audio 24/192 transfers of
material from the Glasgow and Zurich shows, freshly assembled &
mastered from the original Great Deceiver mixes by David
Singleton at DGM Soundworld in 2014 in LPCM stereo.
* Blu-Ray Disc 1 also features the Amsterdam show The Nightwatch,
mixed by Steven Wilson and the George Chkiantz preparatory mix
stereo in 24/96 High-resolution stereo & a 24/96 transfer of the
original David Singleton/Robert Fripp mix of The Nightwatch.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 features Starless & Bible Black in 5.1 Surround
(DTS-HD MAS & LPCM 24/96) alongside new and original stereo
masters of the album, a needledrop of an original vinyl pressing
plus audio extras.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 also features the Quad mixes of material from
the Mainz, Amsterdam & Pittsburgh concerts.
* Blu-Ray Disc 2 also features the ORTF Paris TV footage in a new
hi-res transfer from the original source files.
* Discs packaged in 8 individual 3 disc digipaks within an album
sized box
* 3 additional bonus CDs of audio restored soundboard/bootlegs
and audio curios are also included.
* 1 further concert (bootleg quality audio) is also available via
included download ticket.
* Album sized booklet with rare/unseen photos, new sleeve notes
by Sid Smith, technical notes on the s by David
Singleton, eye-witness accounts from fans who attended the gigs
plus memorabilia including an album print, , replica
concert ticket, press release with folder, photos and more
besides.
* Limited to a single pressing run.
Review
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'Starless completes the story of Crimson's until-now most
heralded incarnation, bridging the gap between Larks' Tongues in
Aspic and The Road to Red with the performances that led up to
and then followed the release of Starless and Bible Black on
March 29, 1974. For those interested in this King Crimson
incarnation, it's an essential piece of the puzzle that is all
the better for it by also sporting the most consistently
excellent sound of any live Crimson box to date...'
--Allaboutjazz.com