The Crimson ProjeKCt - THRAK

Live at Bearsville Theater, Woodstock, NY on August 15 2014
Filmed and edited by Jack Casadone (Infinite Capture)
Audio mix by Kol Marshall, mastered by Markus Reuter
Live sound by Robert Frazza

The Crimson ProjeKCt

In August 2011, Levin, Mastelotto and Belew organised the "3 of a Perfect Pair Camp", a music seminar that included daily group performances of King Crimson repertoire by the trio, partway through being joined by Markus Reuter (touch guitar) from Stick Men, plus Julie Slick (bass) and Tobias Ralph (drums) from the Adrian Belew Power Trio.

This performance was a preview of the "Two of a Perfect Trio" tour of the US and Canada in September–October 2011 which comprised sets by Stick Men (Tony Levin on Chapman Stick and vocals; Pat Mastelotto on drums, percussion, vocals; and Markus Reuter on touch-style guitars), The Adrian Belew Power Trio (Belew on guitar, vocal and pre-recorded samples, Slick on bass and either Tobias Ralph or Danny Carey on drums) and then a final set by all six musicians (Levin, Mastelotto, Belew, Slick, Reuter and Ralph) or various subsets thereof playing King Crimson material from the 1994-1996 tours' setlists (using the original "double trio" configuration which this particular 6-musicians-ensemble mirrors, with Slick playing Trey Gunn's parts, Ralph playing Bill Bruford's parts, and Reuter playing Robert Fripp's parts).

In the summer of 2012, this sextet supported Dream Theater on a US tour under the name "The Crimson ProjeKCt" and have retained this moniker ever since.

As Robert Fripp stated in his Saturday 14 April 2012 diary: "Tony and myself discussed the not-easily-doable name of "Stick Men & The Adrian Belew Power Trio That Do A Set Of King Crimson Music". Tony's suggestion was "ProjeKct Krimson". Mine was "The Crimson ProjeKCt"."

The Crimson ProjeKCt has toured the United States twice and performed in both Russia and Japan. There are official live recordings available from these tours, including the Dream Theater shows. This is the only ProjeKct to date not to include Robert Fripp.

During 2014, the band toured in Australia, New Zealand and, for the first time, in central Europe.

[stoll]

probably the best version of THRAK out there

[daviddaniels]

Markus, thanks for sharing, I saw you all do this at the iridium in nyc several years ago. I know frazza but the rest of you all were so nice to hang out with us all after the show P@ was super cool with my tge teen son, they sat and talked about dave ghrol's drumming.

[janewells]

I guess we should add power drill to the list of Adrian’s accomplished instruments! Lol Man is amazing as is everyone on this page!

[erniethered]

Instead of Starless, it’s Beardless!!! 🤘🏻

[TsunamiBeefPies]

Hell yeah! Thanks for posting this, Markus. Just brilliant ensemble playing from all of you.

[sozhran]

Had to unlike the video so I could like it again!

[lusich]

Me gusta ADRIAN que siempre se le ocurren “locuras” nuevas para obtener sonidos diferentes!!!
Eso sí…yo que él le sacaría la mecha a esa herramienta. Me daría pena que sin querer le haga un agujero a la madera de la guitarra ó que corte alguna cuerda. Porque si no observé mal, toca las cuerdas con el tambor de la perforadora.
De todos modos…👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Y muy bien por Mr. FRIPP que por lo visto respalda a las bandas de CRIMSON aún sin hallarse presente.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[ricksanchez]

Is this line-up is ever going to be together again? And Tour Mexico? / I catch you with Stick Men some months ago in Mexico City, it was my first concert and Totally Blew my mind. Just when the second song started (Larks Tongues in Aspic II) i found myself jumping in my seat, laughing with tears in my eyes, the reaction was uncontainable. Full of great memories I leave the auditorium wordless, knowing for sure that was a spiritual ritual, thank you for that!!! And continue living through the sounds that not everyone can feel and much less create.

[bemersonbakebarmen]

I would love to see this line up with some of the double duo material: Frakctured, Construction of Light, Elektrik, Level Five, etc.

[jprossi]

The value of silence... Nice soloing from Markus & Adrian, but then... Belew with a drilling machine??? And some crazy rhythms + a japanese ambient passage? Well that's something