Robert Fripp / Exposure
Artist Robert Fripp
Album Title: Exposure
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Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Art Rock
Format CD
Released 06/00/1979
Reissue Date 00/00/1989
Label EG Records Ltd.
Catalog No EGCD 41
Bar Code No 0 1704-61557-2 4
Packaging Jewelcase
Tracks
1. Preface (1:15)
2. You Burn Me Up I'm A Cigarette / Robert Fripp feat. Daryl Hall (2:24)
3. Breathless (4:43)
4. Disengage / Robert Fripp feat. Peter Hammill with Joanna Walton (2:53)
5. North Star / Robert Fripp feat. Daryl Hall with Joanna Walton (3:11)
6. Chicago / Robert Fripp feat. Daryl Hall with Joanna Walton (2:17)
7. Ny3 (2:18)
8. Mary / Robert Fripp feat. Daryl Hall with Joanna Walton (2:08)
9. Exposure / Robert Fripp feat. Peter Gabriel (4:27)
10. Haaden Two (1:56)
11. Urban Landscape (2:35)
12. I May Not Have Had Enough Of Me But I've Had Enough Of You / Robert Fripp feat. Joanna Walton (3:38)
13. First Inaugural Address To I.A.C.E. Sherborne House (0:07)
14. Water Music (1:18)
15. Here Comes The Flood / Robert Fripp feat. Peter Gabriel (3:55)
16. Water Music II (3:55)
17. Postscript (0:39)
Date Acquired 09/10/1990
Personal Rating
Acquired from Roadrunner Records
Purchase Price 17.00

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Notes

Recorded mainly and mixed entirely at The Hit Factory, New York between January 1978 and January 1979.
Remixed to Sony digital stereo system at Marcus Studios, London.
Tracks for T9, T15 recorded at Relight Studios, November 1977.
Track for T16 recorded at The House Of Music, New Jersey, July 1977.
All Frippertronics other than T16 recorded at the Fripp Mobile in the Lower East Side, Upper East Side, Hell's Kitchen and the West Village of New York between June 1977 and November 1978.
Location recordings mainly at W. 51st and the West Village.
1989 remastered, billed as "The Definitive Edition" (as were all of the 1989 Fripp/King Crimson remasters).
Track 16, "Water Music II", is edited to 3:52 on this version; it was 6:24 on the 1985 CD version.

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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR11     -10.00 dB   -29.55 dB      1:15 01-Preface
DR12      -2.01 dB   -16.37 dB      2:25 02-You Burn Me Up I'm a Cigarette
DR15      -0.32 dB   -17.50 dB      4:43 03-Breathless
DR12      -1.83 dB   -17.52 dB      2:54 04-Disengage
DR12      -2.84 dB   -18.90 dB      3:12 05-North Star
DR14      -1.44 dB   -20.05 dB      2:18 06-Chicago
DR13      -2.76 dB   -17.73 dB      2:19 07-Ny3
DR11      -6.75 dB   -21.37 dB      2:09 08-Mary
DR12       0.00 dB   -16.06 dB      4:27 09-Exposure
DR13      -0.30 dB   -17.18 dB      1:57 10-Häaden Two
DR7      -17.65 dB   -28.94 dB      2:35 11-Urban Landscape
DR13      -1.70 dB   -16.78 dB      3:38 12-I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You
DR21      -3.57 dB   -27.56 dB      0:07 13-First Inaugural Address to I.A.C.E. Sherborne House
DR10     -15.96 dB   -30.24 dB      1:19 14-Water Music
DR12      -5.13 dB   -21.81 dB      3:55 15-Here Comes the Flood
DR9       -6.37 dB   -20.69 dB      3:55 16-Water Music II
DR18      -2.83 dB   -29.59 dB      0:40 17-Postscript
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Number of tracks:  17
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           500 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review:

Review by Ted Mills
Conceived as the third part of an MOR trilogy that included Peter Gabriel's second album and Daryl Hall's Sacred Songs, Exposure is concerned with a marketplace that Fripp saw as hostile to experimentation and hungry for product. Strangely, then, Exposure is one of his most varied and successful rock albums, offering a broad selection of styles. "Water Music I and II" is pure Frippertronics; "Disengage" and "I May Not Have Had Enough of Me But I've Had Enough of You" are angular, jagged rock like he would make with the reformed King Crimson; "North Star" is a soulful ballad led by Daryl Hall on vocals, and a less bombastic version of "Here Comes the Flood" with Peter Gabriel singing makes a melancholic ending. Peter Hammill, Terre Roche, and Narada Michael Walden also add vocals to a pleasant experiment in pop, Fripp style.
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