Sounds and Zounds

There are albums (in this case) and cd’s that somewhere in you have impacts that are hard to determine when you are listen to them. Robert Fripp’s Exposure was a tide change in my musical listening. The reality was that I was listening to the artist around him, Bowie, Eno, Gabriel and Belew but when Exposure happened it changed everything. This album, released in 1979, was for me the begin concepts of sampling, experimenting and thinking creatively about music. The song water music is a fripptonics based song with a John Bennett lecture (the fourth way teacher) sampled above it all. It is followed by Peter Gabriel’s Here Comes the Flood and at times brought me to tears. These two songs became the subject of one of my first films and sit well in that place in history for me. The reissuing of this disc with the lost vocals that have been long rumored and spoken about, but never heard brings light to what it was like to be in NY in 1979. It is a great edition.