Discipline Us
2005
Love Cannot Bear (Live)
About This Album
Although Robert Fripp's Love Cannot Bear only contains two previously released tracks, it could almost serve as an overview of his Frippertronic/Soundscapes work, since it spans the entire span of this aspect of his music: 1983-2005. Over this time, not only has the technology changed drastically, but Fripp's approach to the pieces themselves has also evolved. As "affirmations," these pieces are all beautiful and elegant, in contrast to some of the more dissonant and atonal soundscapes of the '90s, and each has its own quiet power. Soundscapes of the '90s and beyond have a much wider tonal palette to draw from, like the bell-like tones at the end of "Acceptance - Affirming" or the piano sounds used over the top of the piece on "On My Mother's Birthday" (all coming from his guitar, mind you). "Midnight Blue" sounds more like strings, and "Affirmation: New York" almost sounds like pipe organ. The oldest piece here (originally released as one side of a split flexi-disc with Allan Holdsworth) dates to 1983 and is the only representation here of "original" Frippertronics: Fripp's guitar looped through two Revox reel tape machines.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5 and 6)

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