Music Is Our Friend: Live In Washington D.c. & Albany (CD) – King Crimson

Named for the tour from which the performances were taken, Music Is Our Friend is an official bootleg featuring King Crimson’s final North American appearance in Washington, DC in September, 2021. This 2 CD set is completed with four pieces taken from the first concert of the tour’s 2nd leg in Albany. The DC performance highlights a band in ferocious form, with a powerful, energetic set with some arrangements reworked and differing from previous tours. Featuring a restored middle section of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part One that had not been played since 1973, substantial keyboard arrangements, Tony Levin on upright bass during Neurotica, giving the piece extra swing, there’s an emotional set closer, Starless, and and immensely powerful 21st Century Schizoid Man as an encore.

Track List

1. Introductory Soundscape
2. The Hell Hounds of Krim
3. Larks’ Tongues in Aspic Part I
4. Pictures of a City
5. The Court of the Crimson King
6. Red
7. Tony Cadenza Deals It Slitheryacious-To-The-Max
8. Neurotica
9. One More Red Nightmare
10. Indiscipline
11. Epitaph
12. Radical Action II
13. Level Five
14. Starless
15. 21st Century Schizoid Man
16. Tony Cadenza Serves It Piping Hot
17. Discipline
18. Larks’ Tongues in Aspic II
19. Islands