Exposure (Robert Fripp album)

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Exposure

Studio album by Robert Fripp
Released	1979
Recorded	January 1977- January 1979
Genre	Rock
Length	45:28
Label	EG Records
Producer(s)	Robert Fripp
All Music Guide link Robert Christgau (B+) link
Robert Fripp chronology
Evening Star (1975)	Exposure (1979)	Discipline (1981)

Exposure is the lone rock music solo album by Robert Fripp, the guitarist famous for being the only constant member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. It consists of compositions embracing hard rock, ambient music, ballads, and musique concrète, and includes contribution from a variety of recording artists from divergent sub-genres in popular music of the late 1970s.

After terminating the first run of King Crimson in 1974, Fripp decamped in 1977 to the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. As the New York of that day erupted with the forms of punk rock and what would come to be known as new wave, Fripp dived in, playing and recording with Blondie and the Roche sisters, absorbing the sounds of the active downtown music scene. He envisioned a new approach, and incorporated elements of these NYC experiences into his current palette, including the tape loop techniques he had developed in tandem with Brian Eno, dubbed "Frippertronics."

A jarring work, alternately discordant and serene, Exposure mixes traditional song structure with found objects, lacerating vocals, and off-kilter guitar work-outs to present a unique sonic experience, a bracing encapsulation of urban angst leavened with wry humor. Lyrics were mostly provided by Joanna Walton, a poet acquaintance of Fripp's tragically killed on Pan Am Flight 103.

Originally, Fripp had intended the album as the third part of a simultaneous trilogy recorded 1977 to 1978 including the debut solo album by Daryl Hall, Sacred Songs, and Peter Gabriel's second album, both of which Fripp contributed to and produced. Hall's management and label resisted the project, fearing that the kind of music they heard from Fripp and Hall in collaboration would be damaging to Hall's commercial appeal, insisting as well that Exposure be equally credited to Hall, initially Fripp's main vocalist. Fripp instead used only two Hall vocals on his album, substituting Peter Hammill and Terre Roche in various places; ergo the trilogy did not appear quite as intended, although all three albums eventually appeared in the marketplace. The songs "Urban Landscape" and "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" appear on the Hall album as well, the latter entitled "NYCNY" with different lyrics written by Hall. The Gabriel record also features a version of "Exposure." "Here Comes the Flood" appears in an orchestral arrangement on Gabriel's first album.

A remix of the album appeared in 1985, with three of the deleted Hall vocals back in. A 24-bit remaster of both the original and the remix, with bonus tracks, arrived as a double-disc set on June 6, 2006 on Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label.

1 Personnel
- 1.1 Additional personnel
2 Track listing
- 2.1 2006 Bonus Disc Track Listing
3 External links

[edit] Personnel

Robert Fripp, guitars, frippertronics, voice
Daryl Hall, vocals, piano
Terre Roche, vocals
Peter Hammill, vocals
Peter Gabriel, vocals, piano
Tony Levin, bass
Jerry Marotta, drums
Narada Michael Walden, drums
Phil Collins, drums
Brian Eno, synthesizer, voice
Barry Andrews, organ
Sid McGinnis, rhythm guitar, pedal steel guitar

[edit] Additional personnel

Joanna Walton, lyrics
Ed Sprigg, engineer
Steve Short, engineer
Chris Stein, design, photography
Amos Poe, VTR imagery
Mary Lou Green, hair
Mrs. Edith Fripp, voice
Mrs. Evelyn Harris, voice
J.G. Bennett, voice
Shivapuri Baba, voice
Simon Heyworth, digital remastering

[edit] Track listing

"Preface" (Fripp) – 1:15
"You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette" (Fripp/Hall) – 2:23
"Breathless" (Fripp) – 4:45
"Disengage" (Fripp/Hammill/Walton) – 2:46
"North Star" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 3:06
"Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:12
"NY3" (Fripp) – 2:24
"Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:08
"Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:26
"Häaden Two" (Fripp) – 2:53
"Urban Landscape (Fripp) – 2:34
"I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" (Fripp/Walton) – 3:34
"First Inaugural Address to the IACE Sherborne House" (Bennett) – 0:04
"Water Music I" (Fripp/Bennett) – 1:27
"Here Comes the Flood" (Gabriel) – 4:07
"Water Music II" (Fripp) – 4:28
"Postscript" (Fripp) – 0:37

[edit] 2006 Bonus Disc Track Listing

"Preface" (Fripp) – 1:15
"You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette" (Fripp/Hall) – 2:24
"Breathless" (Fripp) – 4:42
"Disengage II" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:43
"North Star" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 3:12
"Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:17
"New York New York New York" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:17
"Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:08
"Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:25
"Häaden Two" (Fripp) – 1:57
"Urban Landscape (Fripp) – 2:34
"I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" (Fripp/Walton) – 3:37
"First Inaugural Address to the IACE Sherborne House" (Bennett) – 0:07
"Water Music I" (Fripp/Bennett) – 1:18
"Here Comes the Flood" (Gabriel) – 3:55
"Water Music II" (Fripp) – 3:53
"Postscript" (Fripp) – 0:55
"Exposure" (Fripp/Gabriel) – 4:28 (alternate)
"Mary" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:06 (alternate)
"Disengage" (Fripp/Hammill/Walton) – 2:49 (alternate)
"Chicago" (Fripp/Hall/Walton) – 2:02 (alternate)
"NY3" (Fripp) – 2:15 (alternate)