Released: 23 March 1973
Recorded: January – February 1973 at Command Studios, Piccadilly, Westminster, London, England
Producer: King Crimson
Band Members:
Robert Fripp – guitars, Mellotron, electric piano, devices
John Wetton – bass, vocals, piano on "Exiles"
Bill Bruford – drums, timbales, cowbell, wood block
David Cross – violin, viola, Mellotron, electric piano, flute on "Exiles"
Jamie Muir – percussion, drums, "allsorts" (assorted found items and sundry instruments)
Additional personnel:
Richard Palmer-James – lyrics
Nick Ryan – engineering
Tantra Designs – cover design

六十年代末、七十年代初当"前卫""概念""实验"等口号被喊地震天价响时，King Crimson（KC）是当中最优秀的理论与实践者之一；八十年代九十年代当此类经典乐团解体（ELP）或被主流收编（Yes）时，King Crimson仍路遥知马力般的摇滚着。无论现今摇滚的潮流为何，吾人仍不能否认当年KC所创造或遗留下的概念、技巧、精神正影响着现在想要突破的乐团，而他们的成就也成为后世前卫团体所无法突破的"梦靥"。

by Bruce Eder
King Crimson falls apart once more, seemingly for the last time, as David Cross walks away during the making of this album. It became Robert Fripp's last thoughts on this version of the band, a bit noiser overall but with some surprising sounds featured, mostly out of the group's past -- Mel Collins' and Ian McDonald's saxes, Marc Charig's cornet, and Robin Miller's oboe, thus providing a glimpse of what the 1972-era King Crimson might've sounded like handling the later group's repertory (which nearly happened). Indeed, Charig's cornet gets just about the best showcase it ever had on a King Crimson album, and the truth is that few intact groups could have gotten an album as good as Red together. The fact that it was put together by a band in its death throes makes it all the more impressive an achievement. Indeed, Red does improve in some respects on certain aspects of the previous album -- including "Starless," a cousin to the prior album's title track -- and only the lower quality of the vocal compositions keeps this from being as strongly recommended as its two predecessors. Red was reissued on CD in the summer of 2000 in a remastered edition that features killer sound and an excellent booklet, containing a good account of the circumstances surrounding the recording of this album.

六十年代末、七十年代初当"前卫""概念""实验"等口号被喊地震天价响时，King Crimson（KC）是当中最优秀的理论与实践者之一；八十年代九十年代当此类经典乐团解体（ELP）或被主流收编（Yes）时，King Crimson仍路遥知马力般的摇滚着。无论现今摇滚的潮流为何，吾人仍不能否认当年KC所创造或遗留下的概念、技巧、精神正影响着现在想要突破的乐团，而他们的成就也成为后世前卫团体所无法突破的"梦靥"。

六十年代末、七十年代初当"前卫""概念""实验"等口号被喊地震天价响时，King Crimson（KC）是当中最优秀的理论与实践者之一；八十年代九十年代当此类经典乐团解体（ELP）或被主流收编（Yes）时，King Crimson仍路遥知马力般的摇滚着。无论现今摇滚的潮流为何，吾人仍不能否认当年KC所创造或遗留下的概念、技巧、精神正影响着现在想要突破的乐团，而他们的成就也成为后世前卫团体所无法突破的"梦靥"。

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