Day 364, Discipline

Look, rotating vinyl.

And bits of dismantled Betamax video recorder.

But lets focus mainly on the vinyl.

It appears to say DG on the label, which is a dead give away that it is a King Crimson album and so must be one of the early 80s albums.  It is almost certainly Discipline, if that is Side One playing then it's a couple of minutes into Frame by Frame, if Side Two then in the early part of The Sheltering Sky.

Music used to have sides, although with the return to popularity of vinyl this won't be news t

In fact it is definitely the Discipline album as the sleeve is visible in another image.

On many tracks of the album instruments are played at time signatures that move in and out of phase with each other.  Quite disconcerting at times.  Some of songs are influenced by Gamelan percussion instruments.

Time signatures the pair of guitars cycle through (and play against each other) in the title track alone are:

5/8       5/8
5/8       5/4
5/8       9/8
15/16  15/16
15/16  14/16
10/8    20/16
15/16  15/16

15/16  14/16

12/16  12/16
12/16  11/16
15/16  15/16
15/16  14/16

All of this against drums are played in 17/16, apart from the bass drum which is 4/4

The venerable cat, Bottom, lies unmoved by the pretentious complexity of it all.

I still think it is pretty neat though.

(And it is also very danceable.)


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