King Crimson: Sartori in Tangier

One listen.

I don’t think I had much of anything for this one. I like what I wrote, but I also feel it drags.

King Crimson’s “Sartori in Tangier” is from Beat.

I hope you enjoy.

A sort of rest and rumble, looking through a gap, waking up, coming into dawn, and finding some sort of peace, but it doesn’t last and suddenly a tension and urgency comes in.

This keeps pressure on, and chaos and uncertainty. A sense of the lost and closing in. Restlessness on purpose. Eventually a space clears, however, and in this space is calm. It’s not relaxed, but it is calm, and dreamy, and steady remains the beat, unchanging almost, but it’s not pressing in; it’s just keeping the expansion anchored.

Sounds float along and carry with them their space and their relief, but soon it’s back to the tension. A return to the pressing and pushing, and the stress and drive, and it continues on with a menacing glee until it suddenly stops and the song ends.

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