King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp has announced a run of An Evening With... Californian Q+A dates with KC manager and DGM co-ordinator David Singleton, titled Englishmen Abroad for February and March.
The pair are describing the dates as "an opportunity to ask the questions that get us out of bed in the morning...
"Where does Music come from? What does it take to survive the music business? When does the impossible become possible? Can Music change the world? Why did Fripp put on a tutu and dance to Swan Lake at the end of his garden?
An Evening Robert Fripp & David Singleton: Englishmen Abroad dates:
Feb 23: CA Santa Cruz Kuumbwa Jazz Center
Feb 24: CA Sacramento Sofia Theater
Feb 25: CASan Francisco The Chapel
Feb 27: CA San Luis Obispo Cuesta PAC
Feb 29: CA Agoura Hills Canyon Agoura
Mar 1: CA Santa Barbara ETC at the New Vic
Mar 2: CA San Juan Capistrano The Coach House
Mar 3: CA Santa Monica McCabes Guitar Shop
Mar 4: CA Los Angeles The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever
King Crimson leader Robert Fripp has published his first ever book. The Guitar Circle is a 554-page book which collects much of Fripp’s writing about guitar craft – his unique approach to guitar playing, collaborating and personal development, and will be published through Panegyric Publishing on September 1. (Loudersound)
The Guitar Circle collects much of Fripp’s writing on the subject across decades of diaries, introductions to seminars and courses, online writing and more, to present a comprehensive guide to developing a relationship with the guitar, with music, with the individual musician and working with others.
'It won’t teach readers how to ‘play in a day’, a week, or even a year," the publishers say. "It might, however, help an inquisitive musician to develop a personal discipline/approach to playing the guitar that will accompany that musician for life."
Robert Fripp talks on new documentary In the Court of the Crimson King: Watch
The complicated and fractious history of the prog-rock titans is explored in revealing new documentary In the Court of the Crimson King
From lingering tensions with ex-members to the surprising evolution of Robert Fripp, our takeaways from the illuminating new film, screening this week at South by Southwest. “We had been approached by some very good, professional music documentary makers who would make a nice, conventional documentary from which I would learn nothing,” Fripp said by Zoom from his home in the West Midlands.
The Guitar Circle will be presented in a limited edition first print hardcover format with cover, inside pages and jacket all printed on high-end Italian Fedrigoni paper. All copies will be individually wrapped and boxed.
