ANDY SUMMERS AND ROBERT FRIPP – I Advance Masked (2024 David Singleton Mix) – LP – 200g Vinyl

LP – 200g Black Vinyl (2024 David Singleton Mix):

200-gram audiophile vinyl of Andy Summers and Robert Fripps 1982 album.
New 2024 stereo mix by David Singleton
Cut by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering
Includes 2 previously unreleased tracks Skyline and Entropy Pulse

Having crossed paths briefly in the 60s in Bournemouth where Fripp took over Andys guitar chair in the band at Bournemouths Majestic Hotel, it wasnt until 1981 – when Summers wrote to Fripp – that the two guitarists would work together.

With a very different sounding 1980s King Crimson lineup on tour and The Polices status as one of the biggest acts in the world, its unsurprising that an album of guitar duets from Summers/Fripp despite being as far apart from the concept of guitar hero playing as possible to imagine, proved intriguing enough to spend several weeks in the US Billboard 200 charts.

This year sees a newly compiled release The Complete Recordings 1981-1984 by Andy Summers and Robert Fripp on 3CD/1Blu-ray. Alongside this, a new 2024 David Singleton mix of I Advance Masked will be released on 200-gram vinyl including 2 previously unreleased tracks Skyline and Entropy Pulse.

On the multitrack tapes for both I Advance Masked and Bewitched, there were a large number of unfinished tracks. With Skyline and Entropy Pulse, Fripp (on Skyline) and Summers (on Entropy Pulse) had played numerous part-complete solos. According to Singleton, this left him with the wonderful task, now very simple in a digital world, of making a coherent backing and then combining and switching between the various solos to create the duets that you now hear.

“The most exquisite moments in music are when you connect with the other players, when you fly, when you touch the spirit and the audience is there with you.”

Andy Summers, One Train Later

Tracklist:

SIDE A
1. I ADVANCE MASKED
2. UNDER BRIDGES OF SILENCE
3. CHINA – YELLOW LEADER
4. IN THE CLOUD FOREST
5. NEW MARIMBA
6. GIRL ON A SWING

SIDE B
1. HARDY COUNTRY
2. THE TRUTH OF SKIES
3. PAINTING AND DANCE
4. STILL POINT
5. LAKELAND / AQUARELLE
6. SEVEN ON SEVEN
7. STULTIFIED
8. ENTROPY PULSE (Previously unreleased)^
9. SKYLINE (Previously unreleased)*

*Skyline will be available as a digital single on all DSPs from 31st January 2025
^Entropy Pulse will be available as a digital single on all DSPs from 28 th February 2025