King Crimson - 21st Century Sailor's Tale

Stormy Mundy Selection (Occasional Series - Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) Taking different points in the King Crimson and Robert Fripp timeline and mixing them together has been something of a specialty of Alex ‘Stormy’ Mundy over the years. This particular reimagining puts Michael Giles and Boz Burrell together with the drum parts of 21st Century Schizoid Man with the bass line of Sailor’s Tale. Alongside the frantic drum and bass gallop comes the ebb and flow of the original Sailor’s Tale guitar part, a yearning Frippertronics solo from 6th Aug 1981, and gorgeous, languid clouds of soundscape taken from Music For Quiet Moments 45 recorded in Paris 2015 Bringing separate moments from four different decades in Crimhistory into one brand new sonic space required some hefty manipulation from but the means certainly justifies the ends. This video is an edited extract from the latest Stormy Mundy Selection, as featured on