Robert Fripp’s popular “Music For Quiet Moments” series, which originally premiered on streaming services, is now available in an 8 CD boxed set packaged in a stylish rigid slipcase with 58-page bound book with 8 soundscape CDs. Releasae date is November 19th, 2021.
In May 2020 with much of the world in lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Robert Fripp began uploading the first of 52 individual soundscapes on his YouTube channel, streaming platforms, and DGMLive.
Titled “Music For Quiet Moments” and appearing once a week, these pieces created a space for reflection, offering a means of pausing from the day-to-day concerns and to provide a point of calm and perhaps, a sense of hope, in such troubled times.
Fripp defined what he meant by the term quiet moment: “Quiet moments are when we put time aside to be quiet. Sometimes quiet moments find us. Quiet may be experienced with sound, and also through sound; in a place we hold to be sacred, or maybe on a crowded subway train hurtling towards Piccadilly or Times Square. Quiet Moments of my musical life, expressed in Soundscapes, are deeply personal; yet utterly impersonal: they address the concerns we share within our common humanity.”
Robert Fripp has been one of the most innovative and inventive British guitarists for over half a century. He was a progressive rock pioneer with King Crimson, collaborated with Brian Eno, David Bowie, Daryl Hall, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, and Talking Heads.
In the 1990s, his 1970s Frippertronics system gave way to Soundscapes and with it a new generation of performers such as Future Sound Of London, The Grid and many others were not only citing Fripp as an influence but eagerly having him appear on their records.