Máquina! "Why?" 1970.Un reloj sobre un cruasán: así nació el rock progresivo en España

Un álbum de una simetría que amedrenta cortada al ras como el croissant de la portada. ¿El tiempo manda? Tal vez por eso cercenan en dos la sinfonía de 24 minutos, "Why?". Podía haber ocupado una cara, pero tenía que ser el corazón y los pulmones de un disco que cuenta con una introducción y una coda convencionales (en minutaje) para ayudar al oyente a despegar y a aterrizar. Simetría que compensa, simetría brutal.

Vagina Dentata Organ "The most fanatical band in the world" "The Perpignan Killings"

Desde Londres la última entrega de Jordi Valls y Vagina Dentata Organ, una metáfora sobre la muerte de la belleza, un disco estremecedor e impactante (como todos los de VDO).  De muchas formas han intentado los críticos catalogar el trabajo de Jordi Valls, non-music, anti-music, música no organizada, etc ... cada uno a lo suyo, hay cosas que no pueden ser explicadas porque superan nuestros mecanismos de percepción o simplemente porque no tienen más explicación que la que quiera dar el propio artista.

Dennis Wilson "Pacific Ocean Blue" 1977

Aquí, la tragedia soleada de Dennis Wilson (1944-1983) en toda su magnitud. El primer y único disco del batería de los Beach Boys es la banda sonora de un hombre perdido y decepcionado... consigo mismo y con el mundo. Editado en 1977 y durante mucho tiempo referencia oscura, una más, de la atormentada singladura familiar de los Wilson, su reedición en 2008 descubrió de nuevo las cartas de una obra irregular pero preciosa en su emotividad. Nando Cruz comentó este disco de pop-rock a la antigua usanza que puede funcionar como antídoto contra la tristeza y la soledad, o como refugio para abandonarse a ellas. En cualquier caso, a redescubrir; siempre. Fue escogida mejor reedición de 2008 en el Rockdelux 269. Han pasado treinta años desde la desaparición de Dennis Wilson, ahogado en el Pacífico... “Pacific Ocean Blue”. Escucha “River Song”, canción que abre el disco.

Radiohead "Pablo Honey" (1993)

Después de un largo letargo, mientras que los miembros asistieron a la universidad, la banda "On a Friday" volvió a reunirse a principios de 1990, convirtiéndose en accesorios de la escena local de Oxford con una serie de grabaciones de demos y conciertos en vivo con buena asistencia, finalmente firmar con EMI / Parlophone y cambiar su nombre a Radiohead.

Radiohead "In Rainbows" (2007)

Si en la infancia existen convicciones absolutas dadas en el descubrimiento de lo real, aferrándonos al inamovible tránsito de lo tangible, según vamos creciendo descubrimos que el mundo es, contra toda intuición primera, un ente en perpetuo cambio; incluso si pretendemos lo contrario, no existe algo así como una realidad prefijada a la cual podamos volver. Todo presente es siempre la sedimentación del pasado.

Radiohead "Hail to the Thief" (2003)

No es nada fácil ser Radiohead una vez has marcado un antes y un después en la música popular tantas veces como ellos. Firmar una triada de discos tan brillantes y queridos como los que sacaron ellos, cada uno de ellos capaz de marcar una generación y de fascinar enormemente a las posteriores, está a la altura de muy pocos. Consiguieron instalarse en la cima y no se apearon durante casi una década.

Phil Spector "A Christmas Gift for You " (1963)

Los discos navideños son un caso interesante dentro de la industria de la música: sirven sólo para una época del año pero, si están bien hechos, pueden vender millones. Ese es el caso de este álbum publicado el 22 de noviembre de 1963, día en que asesinaron al presidente John F. Kennedy.

David Sylvian "Everything and Nothing" 2000 (Fripp)

Everything and Nothing is a compilation album by David Sylvian.In addition to old favourites from Sylvian's solo career and earlier with the group Japan ("Ghosts"), the album also includes previously unreleased material ("Some Kind of Fool", "The Scent of Magnolia", "Ride" and "Cover Me with Flowers" among others) along with collaborations ("Bamboo Houses" and "Heartbeat" with Ryuichi Sakamoto and "Buoy" with Mick Karn). The songs "Come Morning" and "Golden Way" were taken from the 1995 album Marco Polo by the World music duo Nicola Alesini & Pier Luigi Andreoni, on which Sylvian provided vocals for three of the songs.

David Sylvian "Gone to earth" 1986 (Fripp)

The album is a two-record set featuring one record of experimental rock songs with vocals and one consisting entirely of ambient instrumental tracks. Guest artists include Robert Fripp (who co-wrote three songs) and Bill Nelson (who co-wrote one song). It was recorded in part at The Manor Studios in Oxfordshire, England, with producer Steve Nye. The album peaked at no.24. in the UK albums chart[ and has been certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry for sales in excess of 60,000 copies.

Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman With Robert Fripp & Momodou Kah "Trance Spirits" 2002

Trance Spirits (2002) is the collaborative album by American ambient musicians Steve Roach, Jeffrey Fayman and guest musicians Robert Fripp and Momodou Kah

No Man "Flowermouth" 1994 (Fripp)

Considered a vitally important evolution, the album realised the expansive promise of the band's earlier material. Combining dream pop, art rock and moody minimalism, with an epic orchestral scope, Flowermouth was well served by the guest performances of Japan/Rain Tree Crow's Jansen and Barbieri, King Crimson's Robert Fripp and Mel Collins, jazz trumpeter Ian Carr and eerie Dead Can Dance singer Lisa Gerrard.

2006-Fripp & Eno "Beyond Even" 1992-2006

In 1975, Brian Eno released his epochal Discreet Music replete with an ambient music manifesto as well as a diagram making explicit the system he used-- a sort of rudimentary analog phase machine-- to create the record. If Discreet Music demonstrated the aural wallpaper aspect of the system of overlapping loops (legend has it hospitals regularly piped in the LP during childbirth), Eno's earlier experiments with guitarist Robert Fripp were somewhat less, well, discreet. In fact, in a lot of ways the equally epochal Fripp/Eno albums No Pussyfooting (1973) and Evening Star (1975) brought ambient music firmly to the foreground.

Robert Fripp "The Gates of Paradise" (1998)

The Gates of Paradise is a studio album by progressive rock guitarist Robert Fripp. This album is more ambient than progressive rock, and continues Fripp's tendency towards soundscape explorations in his music. The album received generally positive reviews from both professional reviewers [2] and fan reviews.[3] The album consists of two tracks, each broken into two parts. Outer Darkness runs for nearly 34 minutes, and Gates of Paradise runs for over 24 minutes.

Robert Fripp "Love Cannot Bear" (Soundscapes- Live In The USA) (2005)

Of those 1990s recordings, A Blessing of Tears (Discipline Global Mobile, 1995)—a loving tribute to Fripp's recently-deceased mother—was perhaps the most immediate and poignant. Those who accuse Fripp of being coldly analytical need only listen to that recording to realize that beneath the calm exterior lives a spiritual man who clearly views music as the deepest of emotional expressions. Love Cannot Bear, his first Soundscapes recording in nearly a decade, is an even richer experience. The most accessible Soundscapes recording he's ever made, it's also the most rewarding.

Fripp, Keeling & SingletonHet Metropole Orkest "The Wine of Silence" (2012)

2012 release from the Dutch Jazz/Pop orchestra. The Wine of Silence is the first album to feature orchestral arrangements of legendary guitarist Robert Fripp's solo Soundscapes work. In 2003, UK based composer Andrew Keeling completed work on a series of detailed orchestral arrangements of pieces taken from Fripp's solo performances which had been painstakingly transcribed by Bert Lams (California Guitar Trio). Receiving their live premiere in the Netherlands by the Metropole Orkest under the baton of Jan Stulen in 2003, the results evoke the works of Pärt, Górecki, Tavener and others in the 'holy minimalist' school of composition

Robert Fripp ‎–That Which Passes (1995 Soundscapes - Live Volume 3) 1996

Travis & Fripp "Follow" (2012)

The potential of the improvising duo has been tremendously extended thanks to the seemingly limitless possibilities of technology. King Crimson co-founder/guitarist Robert Fripp has always been on the cutting edge of that technology, whether in the context of his now-deserted flagship group, on his groundbreaking duo recordings with Brian Eno or alone, with his series of "guitar as orchestra" solo recordings, first with the tape loop-driven Frippertronics, and now, for nearly the past quarter century, with his Soundscapes recordings. Saxophonist/flautist

Robert Fripp & Toyah Willcox "The Lady or the Tiger" 1986

Fripp & Eno "The essential Fripp & Eno" (1994)

This compilation of the recorded collaborations between guitarist Robert Fripp and producer/conceptualist/musician Brian Eno is taken from two album-length recordings made for the Island subsidiary Antilles in 1974 and 1975, No Pussyfooting and Evening Star, with an unreleased 1979 session added on. "The Heavenly Music Corporation" and "Swastika Girls," totaling 39 minutes, make up the whole of No Pussyfooting. Both of these pieces are slowly evolving reel-to-reel tape experiences that are hypnotic and remain revelatory decades later. "Wind on Water" and "Evening Star" account for half of the latter album's first side; they are easily the two most beautiful and "melodic" cuts issued by the pair.

Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty "A Show of Hands" (1991)