A Blessing of Tears", Volume 2 of the "Soundscape" series, is among Robert Fripp's darkest works, and righfully so: it is a memorial for his late, beloved mother, Edith. As with the white, ghostly object that entreats the eye on John Miller's cover art, Fripp's mother is the object of "A Blessing of Tears": for the listener she is the unknown in the distance. We know that these soundscapes are about her, but, like Miller's painting, Fripp's music is abstract and works on a purely emotional level.
