King Crimson - Happy With What – Level Five - Elektrik (3CD)

Panegyric

£12.58

Format: 3 x CD
Catalogue No.: DGM3103
Barcode: 0633367310323
Release Date: 05 Nov 2021
Genre: Rock

This three CD set draws together a collection of studio and live recordings of King Crimson

This three CD set draws together a collection of studio and live recordings of King Crimson as a double duo: Released at the end of 2002, “Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With”: Featuring mostly short tracks this song-centred mini-album acted as an appetiser

for ‘The Power To Believe’ (2003) in much the same way that the mini-album ‘VROOOM’ preceded and anticipated ‘THRAK in the mid-1990s.

Recorded a year earlier, ‘Level Five’ (2001), was issued as a tour CD and only available to concert attendees, with subsequent limited editions available from the band’s website and in Japan before being released more widely in 2008. A live album consisting of three lengthy previously unrecorded instrumentals alongside ‘The ConstruKction Of Light’ and ‘Deception Of The Thrush’ plus what was, originally, a hidden bonus track is a wonderful document of that line-up’s live power.