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Let The Power Fall
Robert Fripp →2,441 listeners27,891 plays
ambientart-rockfrippertronicsexperimentalprogressive rock
about this album
Released in 1981 under EG Records, Let The Power Fall is an album of "experimental" but quite* listenable musical tracks based on Robert Fripp's playing of recorded and looped guitar "segments" with limited effects. Starting with an initial "segment" made up of a single guitar sound or progression, these segments are then dubbed in loops across two tape machines whilst adding new guitar "segments" with varying delays, the whole thing gradually building into a unique "chorus" of sound on each track. All tracks on the album start at a relatively slow pace and develop in fits and starts into rich, multilayered musical themes. The overall effect is occasionally choppy and sometimes rough, but decidedly unique and even "transcendent" sounding in places - some tracks on the album overcome the relative "simplicity" of the concept and develop into something near-beautiful, while others progress into slightly more jarring but response-provoking pieces. This album marks a relative milestone in the early stages of what have been nicknamed "Frippertronics" in the sense that it is a standalone album recorded individually (as compared to his experimentation with dubbed sounds on co-recorded tracks such as "No Pussyfooting" years earlier with Brian Eno) and released in a period where the majority of Robert Fripp's musical contribution was in recording with other artists (Peter Gabriel, Peter Hammill, etc.) prior to the reformation and "interwoven" sound of a new King Crimson lineup. Compa
