“We have been approached by various broadcasters, but felt that the ‘standard talking head’ format was becoming increasingly cookie cutter and uncreative. “Robert and I have long believed that there should be a good King Crimson documentary,” Singleton writes in an email. The movie was commissioned by the band, but as King Crimson manager David Singleton tells Rolling Stone, they left the project firmly in Amies’ hands. “Which is astonishing.”Īlso heard from in the trailer are co-founder and former drummer Michael Giles, elusive early-Seventies percussionist Jamie Muir, and current singer-guitarist Jakko Jakszyk and drummer Pat Mastelotto, as well as drummer Bill Rieflin, a member since 2013 who died from cancer in 2020. “This is the first King Crimson where there’s not at least one member of the band that actively resents my presence,“ he says. The new trailer reveals the updated title of the doc, originally called Cosmic F*Kc, and hints at how In the Court of the Crimson King will focus not just on the band’s artistic genius - the way guitarist, co-founder, and sole consistent member Robert Fripp has piloted it from progressive rock into art pop, free improvisation, and more - but also the interpersonal struggles that have kept King Crimson’s lineup in near-constant flux.įripp himself marvels at how the band’s latest lineup - which will likely go down as its final one, following the end of King Crimson’s 2020 tour, apparently its last ever - managed to achieve some degree of harmony after so many decades. Toby Amies, who previously profiled the eccentric British actor and dancer Drako Oho Zarhazar in 2013 doc The Man Whose Mind Exploded, directed the film. Bits of King Crimson’s signature song, the fiercely futuristic anti-war anthem “21st Century Schizoid Man,” punctuate the scenes. We see intimate, fly-on-wall footage of the band onstage, backstage, and in transit, and clips of sit-down interviews with members from throughout their half-century-plus history. Titled In the Court of the Crimson King, after the group’s legendary 1969 debut, the film will premiere at South by Southwest this March, and a new trailer is available to view now.Īs seen in the trailer, the film follows the most recent incarnation of King Crimson, a three-drummer “double quartet,” on tour in 20. An upcoming documentary will provide a rare look at the inner workings of King Crimson, one of rock’s most respected but also mysterious bands.
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