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The Night Watch is a live album (2CD set) by the English rock band King Crimson, released in 1997.

This album contains an important performance in King Crimson's career, being the source of the improvisations "Trio" and "Starless and Bible Black", the Fripp instrumental "Fracture" and the intro to the song "The Night Watch", all of which were included, with some editing, in the 1974 album Starless and Bible Black. The bulk of the concert was also broadcast at the time by the BBC and was subsequently heavily bootlegged. This led to the concert acquiring a legendary status among fans of the band, and eventually to it being one of the first archive releases from Robert Fripp's label DGM.

Cover painting is The Nightwatch by P.J. Crook. The sleeve design was provided by Bill Smith Studio, London.

At the very end of "21st Century Schizoid Man", listening carefully it is possible to hear an excerpt of "(No Pussyfooting)", which also appears at the beginning of USA.

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Easy Money" (Robert Fripp, John Wetton, Richard Palmer-James) 6:14
  2. "Lament" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) 4:14
  3. "Book of Saturday" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) 4:07
  4. "Fracture" (Fripp) 11:28
  5. "The Night Watch" (Fripp, Wetton, Palmer-James) 5:28
  6. "Improvisation: Starless and Bible Black" (Bill Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Wetton) 9:11

Disc 2

  1. "Improvisation: Trio" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) 6:09
  2. "Exiles" (Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James) 6:37
  3. "Improvisation: The Fright Watch" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) 6:03
  4. "The Talking Drum" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Jamie Muir, Wetton) 6:34
  5. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) 7:51
  6. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) 10:38

Credits

  • Recording Engineer: George Chkiantz
  • Mixing Engineer: David Singleton.
  • Assistant Engineer: Alex Mundy.
  • Mixed at DGM World Central by David Singleton & Robert Fripp during July 1997.

Personnel

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