ROBERT FRIPP — Let The Power Fall (1981-1989) RM | The Definitive Edition Series | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Let the Power Fall is an album of Frippertronics, which to the uninitiated can sound like electrical hum. In reality it's a technique developed with Brian Eno, which allows the guitarist to play against a tape loop of sustained notes. With Frippertronics as his mantra, Robert Fripp creates impressive instrumental structures by building layers of sound atop one another. This sort of ambient music is conducive to a specific frame of mind, but like Eno's Discreet Music it rewards the careful listener. Let the Power Fall can be seen as a refinement of the music explored on earlier Fripp & Eno collaborations, though with Eno out of the equation the songs take a decidedly more mathematical bent. The record begins with "1984," picking up where Under Heavy Manners/God Save the Queen left off. The song titles are better seen as successive numbers in a catalog than specific dates, as they're all of a piece. You could make a case that "1984," "1987," and "1988" are the most impressive constructs, but it's foolish to put much meaning behind that. While Fripp employs the same soothing waves of sound that Eno used on Evening Star and Discreet Music, there's only so much that can be made from Frippertronics (think Yosemite Sam and his coconuts), and the end result feels a little cold and remote when compared with Eno's warm ambient textures. Let the Power Fall may be the ideal album of Frippertronics, yet it's a technique that, while fascinating at times, has its own limitations. Dave Connolly
Tracklist :
1.    1984    (12:10)
2.    1985    (11:03)
3.    1986    (5:12)
4.    1987    (5:07)
5.    1988    (6:24)
6.    1989    (11:14)
Credits :  
Guitar, Electronics [Frippertronics], Written-By – Robert Fripp
Cover [Front] – Danielle Dax
Remastered By – Robert Fripp, Tony Arnold

ROBERT FRIPP | BRIAN ENO — Evening Star (1975-1989) RM | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Robert Fripp's second team up with Brian Eno was a less harsh, more varied affair, closer to Eno's then-developing idea of ambient music than what had come before in (No Pussyfooting). The method used, once again, was the endless decaying tape loop system of Frippertronics but refined with pieces such as "Wind on Water" fading up into an already complex bed of layered synths and treated guitar over which Fripp plays long, languid solos. "Evening Star" is meditative and calm with gentle scales rocking to and fro while Fripp solos on top. "Wind on Wind" is Eno solo, an excerpt from the soon to be released Discreet Music album. The nearly 30-minute ending piece, "An Index of Metals," keeps Evening Star from being a purely background listen as the loops this time contain a series of guitar distortions layered to the nth degree, Frippertronics as pure dissonance. As a culmination of Fripp and Eno's experiments, Evening Star shows how far they could go. Ted Mills
Tracklist :
1. Wind on Water 5:30
2. Evening Star 7:48
3. Evensong 2:53
4. Wind on Wind 2:56
5. An Index of Metals 28:36
Robert Fripp – Guitar
Brian Eno – Tape loops, Synthesizer, Piano