Thrak

THRAK is the eleventh studio album by the band King Crimson released in 1995, the successor to the mini-album VROOOM (1994).

Recording

This album was recorded in the "double trio" format of King Crimson. With the band consisting of two guitarists, two bassists and two drummers the opening track begins with all six musicians in the center of the mix. Then as the track gets going they are split into two trios (guitar, bass and drums) with three going to the left channel and three going to the right.

Release

Released on 3 April 1995, THRAK reached number 58 in the UK Albums Chart, their last album to chart.^[1] The album was first released on CD in 1995, followed by a remastered edition in 2002. A new 5.1 surround sound mix by Jakko Jakszyk was released as a CD/DVD-A release.^[2] It was reissued in October 2015 remixed by Jakszyk and Robert Fripp for the 40th Anniversary Series standalone and new THRAK BOX.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
Maxim
Q
Rolling Stone	^[4]
Trouser Press	favourable^[5]

Trouser Press described it as "an absolute monster, a cerebral sextet adventure stunning in its precisely controlled rock power."^[5]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Adrian Belew, except "Coda: Marine 475" by Robert Fripp; all music is composed by Belew, Bill Bruford, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto

No.	Title	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (instrumental)	4:38
2.	"Coda: Marine 475"	2:42
3.	"Dinosaur"	6:37
4.	"Walking on Air"	4:38
5.	"B'Boom" (instrumental)	4:11
6.	"THRAK" (instrumental)	3:59
7.	"Inner Garden I"	1:47
8.	"People"	5:53
9.	"Radio I" (instrumental)	0:44
10.	"One Time"	5:21
11.	"Radio II" (instrumental)	1:03
12.	"Inner Garden II"	1:16
13.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"	4:50
14.	"VROOOM VROOOM" (instrumental)	5:50
15.	"VROOOM VROOOM: Coda" (instrumental)	3:01

*THRAK BOX* Disc 1 (JurassiKc THRAK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"JurassiKc THRAK"	67:22

*THRAK BOX* Disc 2 (Maximum VROOOM)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (includes "Coda: Marine 475")	7:34
2.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"	4:42
3.	"Cage"	1:35
4.	"THRAK"	7:19
5.	"When I Say Stop, Continue"	5:20
6.	"One Time"	4:28
7.	"Funky Jam"	4:30
8.	"Fashionable"	4:22
9.	"Krim 3"	3:16
10.	"Bass Groove"	4:13
11.	"Calliope"	4:03
12.	"No Questions Asked"	3:21
13.	"Monster Jam"	8:16

*THRAK BOX* Disc 4 (ATTAKcATHRAK, The Vicar's THRAK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"ATTAKcATHRAK: Part I"	10:41
2.	"Fans, Sloth, Nuns, Felons"	9:31
3.	"ATTAKcATHRAK: Part II"	7:59
4.	"Declamatory Doth Madden"	10:23
5.	"Witnessing Dumb Whodunnits"	10:46

*THRAK BOX* Disc 6 (Byte-Size THRAK)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cloudscape"	Fripp	1:17
2.	"Elephant Talk" (Live at the Broadway Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1994)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:19
3.	"Red" (Live at the Broadway Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1994)	Fripp	6:08
4.	"Walking on Air" (Live at the Wiltern Theatre, San Francisco, 1 July 1995)		5:25
5.	"Heartbeat" (Live in Córdoba, Argentina, 10 October 1994)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:52
6.	"Dinosaur" (Single edit)		3:43
7.	"One Time" (Edited version)		4:00
8.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" (Edited version)		3:43
9.	"People" (Edited version)		3:49
10.	"Walking on Air" (Edited version)		3:16
11.	"Dinosaur" (Album edit)		4:41
12.	"People" (Remix)		5:43
13.	"Jimmy Bond" (1997 rehearsal)		7:06
14.	"Sad Woman Jam" (1997 rehearsal)		2:36
15.	"Tony's Jam" (1997 rehearsal)		12:29
16.	"Silent Night à la Frippertronics" (Recorded in New York City, 1979)	Franz Xaver Gruber, Fripp	2:55

*THRAK BOX* Discs 7 & 8 (Kcensington THRAK – Royal Albert Hall, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, 17–18 May 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Entry of the Crims" (Walk On: Improv)		0:36
2.	"VROOOM"		4:03
3.	"Coda: Marine 475" (Coda)		2:52
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:21
5.	"Dinosaur"		7:02
6.	"One Time"		5:45
7.	"Red"	Fripp	6:06
8.	"B'Boom"		6:02
9.	"THRAK"		5:31
10.	"Heartbeat"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:52
11.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:40
12.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		4:48
13.	"People"		6:20
14.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		4:58
15.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	1:19
16.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:06
17.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	10:08
18.	"Prism"	Pierre Favre	2:17
19.	"The Talking Drum"	David Cross, Fripp, John Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir	2:44
20.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp	9:20
21.	"Walking on Air"		5:24

THRAK BOX Discs 9 & 10 (New YorKc THRAK – *King Crimson on Broadway*, 20–25 November 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Conundrum"	Bruford, Mastelotto	1:56
2.	"Thela Hun Ginjeet"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	6:43
3.	"Red"	Fripp	6:27
4.	"Dinosaur"		7:17
5.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		4:47
6.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:11
7.	"Walking on Air"		5:27
8.	"B'Boom"		5:37
9.	"THRAK"		6:31
10.	"Neurotica"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:33
11.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		4:57
12.	"People"		6:12
13.	"One Time"		5:55
14.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	7:15
15.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	1:51
16.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:28
17.	"Prism"	Favre	3:56
18.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir	2:58
19.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two"	Fripp	7:28
20.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:22
21.	"VROOOM"		3:56
22.	"Coda: Marine 475"		2:39
23.	"Fearless and Highly THRaKked" (Improv)		1:53
24.	"Free as a Bird" (Solo Belew performance based on a demo)	John Lennon	3:13

*THRAK BOX* Discs 11 & 12 (AzteKc THRAK – *Live in Mexico City*, 2–4 August 1996)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Conundrum"	Bruford, Mastelotto	2:01
2.	"Thela Hun Ginjeet"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:53
3.	"Red"	Fripp	6:32
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:17
5.	"Dinosaur"		6:49
6.	"One Time"		5:53
7.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		5:05
8.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:23
9.	"B'Boom"		4:52
10.	"THRAK"		6:31
11.	"Waiting Man"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:35
12.	"Neurotica"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:45
13.	"The Sheltering Sky"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	6:37
14.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:20
15.	"VROOOM"		3:54
16.	"Marine 475" (Coda)		2:42
17.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		4:58
18.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	0:33
19.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:21
20.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	7:52
21.	"Prism"	Favre	4:22
22.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir	3:57
23.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp	7:10
24.	"Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" (Improv)		2:25
25.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield	7:35

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 1 (*THRaKaTTaK*, 2 October-29 November 1995)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"THRAK"
2.	"Fearless and Highly THRAKked"
3.	"Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip"
4.	"THRaKaTTaK Part I"
5.	"The Slaughter of the Innocents"
6.	"This Night Wounds Time"
7.	"THRaKaTTaK Part II"
8.	"THRAK" (Reprise)

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 1 (*B'Boom: Live in Argentina*, 6–16 October 1994)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (includes "Coda: Marine 475")		7:07
2.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:28
3.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		5:23
4.	"Red"	Fripp	4:58
5.	"One Time"		5:45
6.	"B'Boom"		6:54
7.	"THRAK"		6:29
8.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	1:26
9.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:25
10.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	7:38
11.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		6:18
12.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:43
13.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir	5:52
14.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp	7:31
15.	"Heartbeat"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:02
16.	"Sleepless"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	6:11
17.	"People"		5:51
18.	"B'Boom" (Reprise)		4:26
19.	"THRAK"		5:33

*THRAK BOX* Blu-ray 2 (Live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, 24–26 June 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)
1.	"Red"	Fripp
2.	"B'Boom"
3.	"THRAK"
4.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"VROOOM"
6.	"Coda: Marine 475"
7.	"Dinosaur"
8.	"One Time"
9.	"People"
10.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
11.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
12.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
13.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
14.	"Prism"	Favre
15.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir
16.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two"	Fripp
17.	"Walking on Air"

*THRAK BOX* Blu-ray 2 (*déjà VROOOM*, 5–6 October 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)
1.	"Circular Improv" (Walk On)
2.	"VROOOM"
3.	"Coda: Marine 475"
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"Dinosaur"
6.	"One Time"
7.	"Red"	Fripp
8.	"B'Boom"
9.	"THRAK"
10.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait for Me)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
11.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
12.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
13.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"
14.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
15.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
16.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
17.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir
18.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp
19.	"People"
20.	"Walking on Air"

*THRAK BOX* Blu-ray 2 (Tony's Road Movies)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Race"
2.	"Rehearsal I"
3.	"Rehearsal II"
4.	"Dressing Room"
5.	"Tokyo"
6.	"From the Hotel"
7.	"Mr. Bill at the Station"

*THRAK BOX* Blu-ray 2 (THRAK EPK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Electronic Press Kit"

Personnel

King Crimson

Robert Fripp – guitar, mellotron, soundscapes, vocals, production
Adrian Belew – guitar, lead vocals, production
Tony Levin – bass, extended-range bass, electric upright bass, funk fingers, backing vocals, production
Trey Gunn – Chapman Stick, Warr guitar, backing vocals, production
Bill Bruford – drums, production
Pat Mastelotto – percussion, production

Technical

David Bottrill – production

References

^ "King Crimson | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
^ "Fripp's DGM Live diary". Dgmlive.com. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
^ Thrak at AllMusic
^ "King Crimson: Thrak : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. 19 September 2008. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ ^a ^b Grant, Steven; Fleischmann, Mark; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: King Crimson". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

External links

Thrak at Discogs (list of releases)

[1] "King Crimson | Full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 6 August 2016.

[2] "Fripp's DGM Live diary". Dgmlive.com. Retrieved 19 May 2018.

[3] Thrak at AllMusic

[4] "King Crimson: Thrak : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone". Rolling Stone. 19 September 2008. Archived from the original on 19 September 2008. Retrieved 19 May 2018. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[Trouser_Press-5] Grant, Steven; Fleischmann, Mark; Robbins, Ira. "TrouserPress.com :: King Crimson". TrouserPress.com. Retrieved 30 July 2016.

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