When this instrumental gem came out back in 1982, I was in the midst of my high school prog fixation, while still deeply enmeshed in the new wave pop music of the day. So this collaboration hit my sweet spot, blending the hypnotic guitar loops of
King Crimson's
Robert Fripp with the more contemporary synth-treated guitar textures of
the Police's Andy Summers. It bears some of the hallmarks of Fripp's 70s collaborations with Brian Eno, with the trance-inducing ambient atmospherics one would expec...
Published on July 26, 2021 12:58