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The Power to Believe is an album by the band King Crimson released in 2003, a companion to the preceding mini-album Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With (2002).

  • Alternative versions of "Eyes Wide Open," "The Power to Believe II" and "Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With" can be found on the Happy With What You Have to Be Happy With EP.
  • In some ways the album is a nod to the band's past work (Fripp has referred to it as "the culmination of three years of Crimsonising"). "Level Five" has a familial resemblance to the "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" songs (most obviously in the opening chord progression as well as its overall structure). "The Power to Believe" parts III and IV are another version of "The Deception of the Thrush," a piece the members had been developing as a live improvisation during the ProjeKcts phase as well as Crimson shows from 00-03; part III is the first version the band recorded in the studio, and part IV is an extract of one of Fripp's Soundscapes dating from 1997. The lyrics for the "Power to Believe" tracks were also taken from Adrian Belew's song "All Her Love Is Mine" from his solo album Op Zop Too Wah (1996).

Track listing

  1. "The Power to Believe I: A Cappella" (Adrian Belew) – 0:44
  2. "Level Five" (Belew, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto) – 7:17
  3. "Eyes Wide Open" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 4:08
  4. "EleKtriK" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 7:59
  5. "Facts of Life: Intro" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 1:38
  6. "Facts of Life" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 5:05
  7. "The Power to Believe II" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 7:43
  8. "Dangerous Curves" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 6:42
  9. "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 3:17
  10. "The Power to Believe III" (Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Mastelotto) – 4:09
  11. "The Power to Believe IV: Coda" (Fripp) – 2:29

Personnel

Additional info

Recorded & Engineered by Machine at The Tracking Room, StudioBelew and Pat's Garage

Additional engineering: Jeff Juliano; Additional programming: Machine

Mixed by Machine, at the Mixing Room, Nashville; remixing at The Shop, Hoboken, NJ

Produced by King Crimson & Machine.

Haiku Voice recorded at StudioBelew by Ken Latchney.

Voice Source on Elektrik: Tim Faulkner.

The Power to Believe: Coda produced by The Vicar and Robert Fripp. Soundscape recorded in live performance at Newlyn Church, Cornwall on December 7th, 1997.

Tone Probe production mastering (compilation, sequencing, editing) by David Singleton & Robert Fripp at DGM SoundWorld on behalf of King Crimson.

Mastering by Simon Heyworth, David Singleton & Robert Fripp at The White House (Super Audio Mastering), Chagford, Devon.

Cover artwork from Fin de Siecle by P.J. Crook  ; design : Hugh O'Donnell

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