2CD - King Crimson - 2014 NYC

2CD - Import

"2014 NYC" is the start of a new series featuring King Crimson's 2014 to 2021 line-up and commencing with a set taken from their four-night run in NYC in September 2014. For King Crimson, New York was never just a tour-stop - it was a recurring stage in the band's mythology. Starting with the 1969 Fillmore East breakthrough and running through those early-1970s returns, climaxing in the Larks'-era farewell to that chapter at Central Park in 1974.

The 2014 edition of the band looked like nothing else on the circuit: three drummers lined up across the front - an idea Robert Fripp described as a sudden "point of seeing - turning rhythm into a moving, interlocked engine". Crucially, they didn't treat the back catalogue like museum pieces; they played it as living material, rebuilt with microscopic attention rather than copied note-for-note. A calmer group chemistry let the seven-piece hit with brute force and fine detail at once - refreshing older classics and giving newer pieces extra muscle