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2021 remaster by David
Singleton
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Mastered by Jason Mitchell at
Loud Mastering
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Pressed on 200gram
Super-Heavyweight vinyl at Vinyl Factory UK
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Available on vinyl again for
the first time since the mid-1980s
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God
Save the Queen: By the time Exposure had been released in June 1979 Robert Fripp had
already embarked on one of the most unconventional tours to support a new
record that had ever been undertaken; record shops, offices, public spaces,
canteens, planetariums and, later, some conventional venues and theatres. Accompanied by a tour manager, a Les Paul
guitar, a pedalboard, and two Revox tape recorders were packed into a car and
they crisscrossed their way across Europe and America. This was, in part, a
response to record label Polydor/EG management’s allocation of a mere $10k as
a marketing budget. Using the money as a form of tour support, Fripp took
“Frippertronics” directly to the offices of local record companies, record
shops and, most importantly, audiences of fans and casual listeners alike.
That tour in turn provided the material for many further recordings.
Under Heavy
Manners: The original side two of the album was given over to the next phase of Fripp’s Drive To 1981. Sometimes
referred to as Discotronics, Fripp intended to
create a bespoke meeting place between Frippertronics’ repetitious loops and
a pulsating four-to-the-floor beat. With bassist Busta Cherry
Jones and drummer Paul Duskin, the trio laid down a taut minimalist groove against Frippertronics loops lifted from the solo tour earlier in the year. The trio line-up was augmented by David Byrne as guest vocalist on
the title track.
Reviewing God Save The Queen/Under Heavy Manners, Melody Maker’s Allan Jones lauded the Frippertronics pieces but
prophetically concluded: “It’s to Under Heavy Manners that one eventually looks for a key to Fripp’s musical future. He,
as much as anyone, needs someone to force an entry into areas he’s not fully
able to unlock himself. Under Heavy Manners suggests he’s
looking in the right directions.”
Two additional
tracks feature the 1985 issued ‘God Save the King’ – originally released as
part of a compilation CD that also featured League of Gentlemen material and
the ‘Music on Hold’ jam/track that was discovered as part of the archive work for the Exposures multi-disc boxed set
Unavailable for
decades in any format, the album makes an appropriate return to the record
shop racks –one of the points of origin for the guitar loops that underpin the recording.
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