King Crimson Cadence Kudasai
Stormy Mundy Selection (Occasional Series Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) It could be argued that the first officially released King Crimson mashups, wherein one era of Crimson is juxtaposed with another, appeared when the chorus of The Court Of The Court Of The Crimson suddenly rose up out of the chaos and turbulence of the closing moments of The Devils Triangle from In The Wake Of Poseidon. Such protosampling aside, the first timeline crossings proper were to be found on the Frame By Frame box. Released in 1991, it saw Adrian Belews vocals replacing those on the 1970 recording of Cadence And Cascade, while Tony Levin renewed the bass of the original Bolero from Lizard. Here, Alex Mundys audio alchemy has Mel Collins and Gordon Haskell from 1970s Poseidon sessions, spinning forward just over a decade to meet with Belew, Levin, Bruford, and Fripp as they recorded 1981s recording of Matte Kudasai. The result is a series of happy accidents in a beguiling mix that goes some way to
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