Exposure (Robert Fripp album)

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Exposure
Exposure cover
Studio album by Robert Fripp
Released June 1979
Recorded January 1977- January 1979
Genre Rock
Length 45:28
Label EG Records
Discipline Global Mobile
Producer Robert Fripp
Professional reviews
Robert Fripp chronology
Evening Star
(1975)		 Exposure
(1979)		 God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
(1981)

Exposure is a rock music solo album by guitarist Robert Fripp, best-known as the only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. Released in 1979, it peaked at #79 on the Billboard Album Chart.

Exposure consists of compositions embracing hard rock, ambient music, ballads, and musique concrète, and includes contributions from a variety of recording artists. A jarring work, alternately discordant and serene, Exposure mixes traditional song structure with found objects, lacerating vocals, and off-kilter guitar work-outs to present a unique sonic experience, a bracing encapsulation of urban angst, leavened with a wry sense of humor that is refreshingly at odds with the public perception of Fripp as being overly-serious. Lyrics were mostly provided by Joanna Walton, a poet acquaintance of Fripp's who was killed on Pan Am Flight 103.

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[edit] Background

After terminating the first run of King Crimson in 1974, Fripp decamped in 1977 to the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. New York was then a center of punk rock and what would come to be known as new wave, and Fripp dived in to the scene, playing and recording with Blondie and the Roche sisters, absorbing the sounds of the active downtown music scene. He envisioned a new approach, and incorporated elements of these NYC experiences into his current palette, including "Frippertronics," the tape loop techniques he had developed in tandem with Brian Eno.

Originally, Fripp envisioned Exposure as the third part of a simultaneous trilogy also comprising Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs and Peter Gabriel's second album aka Scratch, both of which Fripp contributed to and produced. Hall's management and label resisted the project, fearing the music would damage Hall's commercial appeal, insisting as well that Exposure be equally credited to Hall, initially Fripp's main vocalist. Fripp instead used only two Hall vocals on his album, substituting Peter Hammill and Terre Roche in various places.

The trilogy did not work out quite as intended, although all three albums eventually appeared in the marketplace. The songs "Urban Landscape" and "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" appear on the Hall album as well, the latter entitled "NYCNY" with different lyrics written by Hall. The Gabriel record also features a version of "Exposure." "Here Comes the Flood" appears in an orchestral arrangement on Gabriel's first album, but Gabriel disliked the production, and created a far simpler rendition of the song for Exposure, featuring his own vocals and piano, Fripp's guitar, and Brian Eno's synthesizer.

A remix of the album appeared in 1985, with three of the deleted Hall vocals. A 24-bit remaster of both the original and the remix, with bonus tracks, arrived as a double-disc set on June 6, 2006 on Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Additional personnel

  • Joanna Walton - lyrics
  • Ed Sprigg - engineer
  • Steve Short - engineer
  • Chris Stein - design, photography
  • Amos Poe - VTR imagery
  • Mary Lou Green - hair
  • Mrs. Edith Fripp - voice
  • Mrs. Evelyn Harris - voice
  • J.G. Bennett - voice
  • Shivapuri Baba - voice
  • Simon Heyworth - digital remastering

[edit] Track listing

All tracks composed by Robert Fripp; except where indicated

  1. "Preface" – 1:15
  2. "You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette" (Fripp/Hall) – 2:23
  3. "Breathless" – 4:45
  4. "Disengage" (Fripp/Hammill/Walton) – 2:46
  5. "North Star" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 3:06
  6. "Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:12
  7. "NY3" – 2:24
  8. "Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:08
  9. "Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:26
  10. "Häaden Two" – 2:53
  11. "Urban Landscape" – 2:34
  12. "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" (Fripp/Walton) – 3:34
  13. "First Inaugural Address to the IACE Sherborne House" (Bennett) – 0:04
  14. "Water Music I" (Fripp/Bennett) – 1:27
  15. "Here Comes the Flood" (Gabriel) – 4:07
  16. "Water Music II" – 4:28
  17. "Postscript" – 0:37

[edit] 2006 Bonus Disc Track Listing

  1. "Preface" – 1:15
  2. "You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette" (Fripp/Hall) – 2:24
  3. "Breathless" – 4:42
  4. "Disengage II" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:43
  5. "North Star" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 3:12
  6. "Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:17
  7. "New York New York New York" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:17
  8. "Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:08
  9. "Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:25
  10. "Häaden Two" – 1:57
  11. "Urban Landscape" – 2:34
  12. "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" (Fripp/Walton) – 3:37
  13. "First Inaugural Address to the IACE Sherborne House" (Bennett) – 0:07
  14. "Water Music I" (Fripp/Bennett) – 1:18
  15. "Here Comes the Flood" (Gabriel) – 3:55
  16. "Water Music II" – 3:53
  17. "Postscript" – 0:55
  18. "Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:28 (alternate)
  19. "Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:06 (alternate)
  20. "Disengage" (Fripp/Hammill/Walton) – 2:49 (alternate)
  21. "Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:02 (alternate)
  22. "NY3" – 2:15 (alternate)

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