17 January 2014 - 0 Comments

New dates have been announced for the post-progressive art rock concert of the year - The Crimson ProjeKCt.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Tuesday June 24 - Auckland – the Studio 

Limited PREMIUM PASS tickets available - includes:
Exclusive Meet & Greet opportunity with the Crimson ProjeKCt
Official Commemorative Meet and Greet Laminate (not for sale separately)
Crimson ProjeKCt Australia & New Zealand only compilation CD (not for sale separately)
Limited Edition A3 thick card poster (not for sale separately)
2 items signed by Crimson ProjeKCt members
A photo with the Crimson ProjeKCt on your personal phone or camera
 
Tickets available from http://www.tombowler.com.au/
 
King Crimson members Adrian Belew, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto will be joined by the classically trained Fripp acolyte Markus Reuter plus Power Trio members Julie Slick and Tobias Ralph for three hours of unsurpassed musicianship and brutal power.
 
The concerts will commence with sets by Stickmen and the Adrian Belew Power Trio before culminating in a performance of King Crimson material by The Crimson ProjeKCt featuring all six musicians.
 
Belew, Levin and Mastelotto have a large influence on popular culture due in part to their critically acclaimed work with some of the world’s most influential artists, such as Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, John Lennon, and Nine Inch Nails.
 
These concerts represent the first opportunity ever for New Zealand and Australian audiences to witness the sheer majestic force of King Crimson music performed by those instrumental in its creation.
 
Adrian Belew: “It's a helluva show! Nearly 3 hours long: Stick Men play a set of their music (which includes a Krimson track or two), then the Power Trio plays a set of my music (which also includes a Krimson track), then Tony and Pat and I play a Krimson song (as yet another trio), and then comes the big finale: both trios play more than an hours-worth of Krimson music as a double trio!”
 
More info: http://www.thecrimsonprojekct.com/
 
King Crimson
Founded in 1968 by Robert Fripp, King Crimson was the archetypical progressive rock band. Fripp disbanded the outfit in 1974 before reforming in 1981 with Belew, Levin and Bill Bruford. Following a further hiatus from 1985 to 1993 Fripp created the “double trio” version of King Crimson featuring Belew, Levin and Mastelotto as well as Bruford and Trey Gunn. In 1997 the band decided to develop new material by working in a number of smaller units dubbed the ProjeKCts. ProjeKCts One, Two, Three and Four led to a new King Crimson album; ProjeKCt X was improvised outtakes from that album; and ProjeKCt Six, featuring only Fripp and Belew, would tour North America with Porcupine Tree. A further ProjeKCt – Seven, released an album in 2011. The Crimson ProjeKCt is the most recent of the ProjeKCts whilst Fripp has recently announced a new King Crimson featuring both Mastelotto and Levin.
http://www.dgmlive.com/kc/
 
Adrian Belew
Adrian Belew has released nearly twenty solo albums. His 2005 single "Beat Box Guitar" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category. In addition to King Crimson, Adrian has worked extensively as a session and touring musician, with Frank Zappa (Sheik Yerbouti), Talking Heads (Remain In light), David Bowie (Stage, Lodger and sound + Vision tour), Laurie Anderson (Mister Heartbreak, home of the Brave, Bright Red),  and for twenty years with Nine Inch Nails.

Adrian has also worked with Mike Oldfield, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Tom Tom Club, Cyndi Lauper (True Colours), Porcupine Tree (Deadwing), and Paul Simon (Paul Simon, Graceland & The Rhythm of the Saints). Belew’s playing style features unconventional physical techniques, bizarre electronic tones and a wide variety of sonic effects (including guitar-based impressions of animals, birds, insects, vehicles and mechanical noise). Belew is a pioneer of guitar synthesizers, having been one of the first players to use them in popular music.
http://www.adrianbelew.net/
 
Tony Levin
Tony Levin has played albums by or performed on stage with artists as diverse as Peter Gabriel, Cher, Paul Simon, Tim Finn, Alice Cooper, James Taylor, John Lennon, Herbie Mann, Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, Pink Floyd, Carly Simon, Dire Straits, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Buddy Rich, The Roches, Todd Rundgren, Seal, Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, Warren Zevon and Laurie Anderson. As well as King Crimson, Levin was been a member of Liquid Tension Experiment and the King Crimson related bands Bruford Levin Upper Extremities, ProjeKct One and ProjeKct Four. Levin helped to popularize the Chapman Stick and the NS upright bass. He also created "funk fingers", modified drumsticks attached to fingers used to hit the bass strings (which sounds similar to slap style bass).
http://www.tonylevin.com/

Pat Mastelotto
Prior to joining King Crimson, Pat Mastelotto was a founding member of Mr. Mister as well as being an in demand session player having worked Al Jarreau, The Pointer Sisters, Patti LaBelle, Kenny Loggins, XTC, The Sugarcubes, Hall & Oates, John Paul ones, Tina Arena, Matthew Sweet, Steve Hackett, Julia Fordham, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Robyn Hitchcock and David Sylvian. He has also produced, edited mixed or played on several King Crimson ProjeKcts releases.
Pat is also a member of the post-progressive KTU, Tuner and HoBoLeMa, as well as touring with The Flower Kings.
http://www.patmastelotto.com/

Markus Reuter
In his teens, Reuter studied music history, theory, and analysis with Karlheinz Straetmanns, a composer in the lineage of Harald Genzmer and Paul Hindemith. Markus subsequently studied Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft for seven years and learned to play the Chapman Stick, later moving onto the Warr Guitar and the U8 Touch Guitar, which he co-designed. Reuter has released over 30 albums as a solo artist or major collaborator. He is one of the two core members of the electronic music group Centrozoon and is half of the duo Tuner (with Pat Mastelotto). Markus has further developed his interest in permutation-based compositional principles, including the use of out-of-synch looping devices, and has become well known in the ambient field.
http://www.markusreuter.com/
 
Julie Slick
Julie Slick began taking bass lessons at age twelve at the Paul Green School of Rock as one of Paul’s initial seventeen students. For their first show, Green and his students performed Pink Floyd's The Wall. Julie released her self-titled solo debut in 2010 which was followed up in 2012 by Terroir featuring Adrian Belew, Pat Mastelotto and guitarist/ composer David Torn.
http://www.julieslick.com/
 
Tobias Ralph
Tobias began playing the drums at the age of 4 years. His talents were quickly recognized when he became the winner of the first Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship award while still attending La Guardia High School for music and the performing arts. He also attended Berklee College of Music, where he was the first recipient of the Yamaha Young Performing Artist recognition award. Tobias joined the Adrian Belew Power Trio in 2010. Tobias has worked with Lauryn Hill, Tricky, Nena, Screaming Headless Torsos and Joe Bowie’s Defunkt).
http://www.tobiasralph.com/

The Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and can be used to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures. Designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument, it can also cover several of these musical parts simultaneously.

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