Lizard (CD + DVD Audio)

King Crimson - Lizard (CD + DVD Audio)

Lizard (CD + DVD Audio)
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Artist: King Crimson
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered, Special Edition
CD Release Date: 2010-01-12
Music Label: Discipline Us
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Cirkus
  2. Indoor Games
  3. Happy Family
  4. Lady of the Dancing Water
  5. Lizard
  6. Lady of the Dancing Water (alt. Mix)
  7. Bolero (Frame by Frame remix)
  8. Cirkus (studio run through)
Music CD 2
  1. Lizard Album DVD-A Lossless Surround Sound, DTS 5.1 Surround Sound
  2. Lizard Album original mix - High Resolution Stereo
  3. Lizard Album new mix High Resolution Stereo
  4. All 3 Bonus tracks in High Resolution Stereo

Music reviews of Lizard (CD + DVD Audio)

Music Review: The Enigmatic 'Lizard'
Rating: 5 Stars

Robert Fripp provides some skeptical and cynical notes about this album. In 2009, he wrote of "Lizard": "Labour and laboring, mostly joyous, strive effortfully to present appearance of cohesion". He also reminds us that "Lizard" was both not as commercially successful as other King Crimson albums and that he doesn't feel it is the most critically accomplished of his albums. That's a lot to say about your work. All the more amazing that Steven Wilson was able to convince Fripp to release this 5.1 surround sound version. This is even more surprising when you realize that "In The Wake Of Poseidon" was skipped temporarily.

Always an amazing mix of progressive rock and jazz, "Lizard" arguably stands out among the best King Crimson accomplishments. Noted for a variety of distortions/effects of different vocals, Wilson manages to extract them and balance them so they stand out clearly and crisply. In fact, all the instrumentals on every track are separated or enhanced to truly bring attention to every detail. These are things that are often missed on the stereo mixes.

"Cirkus" flat out rattles your senses with its mix of rock and freeform blasts. Fripp's mellotron is so powerful, it's stunning. Andy McCulloch on drums is dizzying and emphatic. These tracks (along with others here) take Pete Sinfield's lyrics and elevate the entire song to a nearly psychedelic level. "Happy Family", allegedly a comment on the Beatles break-up is one of the few songs that get muddied in the new mix, but not for great effort from Wilson. The original tracks and "scraps and fragments of stuff" were meticulously remixed. As Sid Smith notes: "For me `Lizard' has always been an album that was too big for stereo to contain." In terms of fusing free-jazz with progressive rock for me, there's almost no parallel." "Lady of the Dancing Water" contains some of the prettiest flute work available anywhere, in fact, all the horns and woodwinds are clearly pronounced. The immense song, "Lizard" with its bridges, alterations and variations is one of the most interesting and strongest songs on the album. With virtually eight songs connected with a barrage of ingenious methods, it becomes an easy favorite. Jon Anderson's vocals on the section, `Prince Rupert Awakes' is alive with strength and beauty complimented by Fripp's stinging mellotron. The album closes with `Big Top', an amusing and somewhat demented climax.

This package contains the CD with a new 2009 stereo mix and three bonus tracks, (an alternate take of "Lady of the Dancing Water", another remix of "Bolero" and a `studio run through with guide vocal from original session' of "Cirkus". These tracks are great to have, but only "Bolero" stands out as something truly worthy, although this version of "Cirkus" is interesting to hear if only for the improvisation of the vocals.

The DVD contains the album in 5.1 surround sound, the new 2009 stereo mix, the original album (1999 remastered version) and the three bonus tracks. Robert Fripp and Sid Smith's notes make for a very interesting contrast in perspective of "Lizard". If not for the persuasion of Steven Wilson, we might not have ever heard this album in its purest form, that is, every instrument clearly marked out and placed and a sensory experience that you could only hope from any band. "Lizard" ranks up there with "In The Court of the Crimson King".

The two latest 5.1 surround sound CD/DVD King Crimson packages, In the Court of the Crimson King (Deluxe) and Red are available now.
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Description of Lizard (CD + DVD Audio)

Continuing with the 40th Anniversary Series, this version of Lizard contains an audio CD, with 5.1 Surround Sound mix from the original studio masters, by Steven Wilson, fully approved by Robert Fripp, as well as three extra tracks and a new stereo album mix by Robert Fripp and Steven Wilson. Also included is a DVD-A featuring a 5.1 DTS Mix and a High Resolution Stereo Mix (24bit). Compatible with all DVD and DVD Rom Players, DVD-A players can additionally access a 5.1 Lossless Audio Mix and Losless Stereo Mix.

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