Q on the “New Standard Tuning”?

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Robert Fripp’s New Standard Tuning

The reason why this link comes first is of course the fact that i wrote ‘Q’ in the “new” standard tuning, which in all likely hood is not gonna be a standard, guitarists are lazy, lol. And if you click on John de Lancie’s picture it takes you to his biography, because he is a highly under-rated actor!

So i wrote this composition for the GitBox Rebellion years ago in this new tuning, that Robert Fripp invented in a sauna… The GitBox performed ‘Q’ up and down the country to standing ovations,  but we had a disagreement,  so i recorded it myself and it got released on Rattle’s compilation of “Different Tracks” as the opening piece.

The composition is complex and moves in multiple time signs and keys,  some of them uneven,  like 5/8, 7/8, 9/8 and so forth, in fact it opens in 5/8 and progresses from there. That being so because a ‘Q’ is an omnipotent being that freely roams the universes and probably (so i theorised then) has a taste for abstract and off the wall kinda shit.

The cool thing about it is though, that it always flows and glides and stays melodic and has a humour about it, even when it gets rocky and hard, and the ending is wow….

Phaeder