Travis & Fripp -Live at Coventry Cathedral

Live at Coventry Cathedral is the second collaborative album by Travis & Fripp. Following the warmly received release of the 2008 album Thread, the duo performed four UK concerts in May 2009. This album is a recording taken from the final concert of the series.Live at Coventry Cathedral is one of those genuine musical rarities, an album drawn from a largely improvised performance that has the potential to resonate with, and impact upon, an audience far wider than one would normally associate with such music. Fripp provides solo runs that most guitarists could only dream of conjuring, while Travis demonstrates the kind of incisive lyricism on flute or soprano sax that makes him such a substantial presence in both jazz and rock settings.

Track Listing:
1. The Apparent Chaos of Stone
2. Field of Green
3. The Unquestioned Answer
4. Blue Calm
5. Duet for the End of Time
6. The Offering
7. Angels in the Roof
8. Moonchild
9. Lamentation


As King Crimson biographer Sid Smith who attended the concert notes:

"Over the course of 80 minutes the music veers into contrasting territories. Travis' flute uses looping technology to create slowly undulating eddies of notes whilst his soprano adds piercing shafts of light that spread and spray across the orchestral washes of Fripp's guitar-generated soundscapes.

Fripp delivers the terse, angular lines for which is he is well-known and surprisingly offers a poignant meditation on the main theme from King Crimson's Moonchild - played by the guitarist for the first time in forty years.

The real magic on this album is in the nuances and intricate details that sustain and support each other's work. This isn't a case where one solos whilst the other accompanies. Like two colourists sharing the canvas, their respective approaches result in a blend that is beautiful, delicate, sometimes wistful, occasionally forbidding.

The atmospheres they create are the right side of chilling rather than the wrong side of chill-out, a music that is as poetic as it is powerful."