Andrew Keeling has written this brief analysis of FraKctured as part of his larger article "King Crimson: The ConstruKction Of Light - An Analysis by Andrew Keeling" which we commend. He has kindly allowed us to reproduce the FraKctured section here...
FraKctured by Andrew Keeling
It seems to me that the process of the gradual construction of light continues with 'FraKctured'. This is an instrumental piece derived, in part, from 'Fracture' the piece which concludes the 1974 King Crimson album, 'Starless and Bible Black'.
The piece is largely centred on augmented pitch collections. This is, in some ways, the opposite to the Octatonic centre-of-gravity of 'TCOL'. In other words, King Crimson seem to be going to great lengths to balance the 'tonality' of pitch/mode/key centres from piece to piece.
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Intro - Moto Perpetuo I - Fairy Fingers I - Moto Perpetuo II - Fairy Fingers II - Moto Perpetuo III - Fairy Fingers III - The Terror or Brutal Section - Moto Perpetuo IV - Coda - Outro
(All analyses of the music of King Crimson/Robert Fripp is copyrighted material: Andrew Keeling/Discipline Global Mobile, 2000.)
