Robert Fripp – Exposure LP Online

Limited 200gm vinyl LP pressing. Robert Fripp s classic debut (fourth edition) newly mixed (from the original multi-track tapes) by Steven Wilson. Mastered by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering. After King Crimson s dissolution in 1974, Robert Fripp embarked on a lengthy sabbatical away from the public eye. His relocation from Great Britain to New York in February 1978 marked his return as a producer, solo artist, and wild card collaborator with an impressive roster of artists including Daryl Hall, Blondie, Peter Gabriel, and David Bowie. Fripp s first solo album, Exposure, was released in 1979. The term Classic album has been devalued somewhat through overuse, but if ever an album has proved worthy of the term it s Robert Fripp s 1979 solo debut Exposure. Recorded at the Record Plant in New York, the album was originally conceived as part of a trilogy alongside Daryl Hall s Sacred Songs and Peter Gabriel s 2nd solo album (both Fripp produced). Exposure was delayed from it s scheduled 1978 release date by RCA s postponement of the release of the Hall album (that remained unissued until 1980) and Hall s then manager s insistence that some of his vocals be removed from the album. When the album finally appeared in 1979, it s mixture of songs, singers, instrumentals, snatches of speech, audio verite sound collages – all linked by an autobiographical diary approach – presented a very different musician from that of the initial King Crimson period 1969-74. Now presented in single LP form as remixed from the original multi-track master tapes by Steven Wilson as part of his work on the Exposures boxed set, the album retains all of the power and vitality that made it such a compelling listen when first released. One of the seminal albums of the period revisited.