King Crimson Larks' Tongues In Aspic The Complete Recordings

In the post today...

 

In the last few years I've been lucky enough to be commissioned to write liner notes for some of my favourite albums. I still get a frisson when I get asked to write notes for an album that I had or admired when I was a kid growing up in the early '70s and it's a novelty that shows little sign of wearing off.

So to be part of the team that's assembled the special 15-disc box set Larks' Tongues In Aspic The Complete Recordings - an epically comprehensive documentation of probably my favourite incarnation of the band I've been a fan of since 1971 - has been an honour and a privilege. After a couple of years in the making it's wonderful to finally see it all made real.

The overview...

A 35page booklet with lots of pictures and essays from yours truly, box set compiler Declan Colgan and an interview with Robert Fripp; a set of suitable-for-framing postcard portraits in an envelope emblazoned with a backstage pass (that my sister Lesley swiped from KC circa March '73); album and concert flyers; repro Rainbow gig ticket with a code to download the gig; a suitable-for-framing print of the cover artwork and 15 discs housed in rather fetching heavy-card covers...

What's amazed me is how close to selling out this limited-edition set of 7,000 is even before it has shipped. Clearly it's not just me that thinks this line-up of King Crimson was rather special.