Thrak

THRAK

Studio album by King Crimson

Released

3 April 1995

Recorded

24 October – 4 December 1994

Studio

Real World Studios, Box, Wiltshire, England

Genre

Progressive rock

Length

56:30

Label

Virgin

Producer

King Crimson, David Bottrill

King Crimson chronology

VROOOM
(1994)

THRAK
(1995)

B'Boom: Live in Argentina
(1995)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
Maxim
Q
Rolling Stone	^[2]

THRAK is the eleventh studio album by the band King Crimson released in 1995, the successor to the preceding mini-album Vrooom (1994). This album was recorded in the "double trio" format of King Crimson. It was reissued in October 2015 remixed by Jakko Jakszyk and Robert Fripp for the 40th Anniversary Series standalone and new THRAK BOX.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Adrian Belew, except "Coda: Marine 475" by Robert Fripp, all music composed by Belew, Bill Bruford, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (Instrumental)	4:38
2.	"Coda: Marine 475"	2:41
3.	"Dinosaur"	6:37
4.	"Walking on Air"	4:38
5.	"B'Boom" (Instrumental)	4:11
6.	"THRAK" (Instrumental)	3:59
7.	"Inner Garden I"	1:47
8.	"People"	5:53
9.	"Radio I" (Instrumental)	0:44
10.	"One Time"	5:22
11.	"Radio II" (Instrumental)	1:03
12.	"Inner Garden II"	1:16
13.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"	4:50
14.	"VROOOM VROOOM" (Instrumental)	5:50
15.	"VROOOM VROOOM: Coda" (Instrumental)	3:01

THRAK BOX Disc 1 (JurassiKc THRAK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"JurassiKc THRAK"

THRAK BOX Disc 2 (Maximum VROOOM)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (includes "Coda: Marine 475")
2.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"
3.	"Cage"
4.	"THRAK"
5.	"When I Say Stop, Continue"
6.	"One Time"
7.	"Funky Jam"
8.	"Fashionable"
9.	"Krim 3"
10.	"Bass Groove"
11.	"Calliope"
12.	"No Questions Asked"
13.	"Monster Jam"

THRAK BOX Disc 4 (ATTAKcATHRAK, The Vicar's THRAK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"ATTAKcATHRAK: Part I"
2.	"Fans, Sloth, Nuns, Felons"
3.	"ATTAKcATHRAK: Part II"
4.	"Declamatory Doth Madden"
5.	"Witnessing Dumb Whodunnits"

THRAK BOX Disc 6 (Byte-Size THRAK)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Cloudscape"	Fripp
2.	"Elephant Talk" (Live at the Broadway Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1994)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
3.	"Red" (Live at the Broadway Theatre, Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 1994)	Fripp
4.	"Walking on Air" (Live at the Wiltern Theatre, San Francisco, California, 1 July 1995)
5.	"Heartbeat" (Live in Córdoba, Argentina, 10 October 1994)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
6.	"Dinosaur" (Single edit)
7.	"One Time" (Edited version)
8.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" (Edited version)
9.	"People" (Edited version)
10.	"Walking on Air" (Edited version)
11.	"Dinosaur" (Album edit)
12.	"People" (Remix)
13.	"Jimmy Bond" (1997 rehearsal)
14.	"Sad Woman Jam" (1997 rehearsal)
15.	"Tony's Jam" (1997 rehearsal)
16.	"Silent Night à la Frippertronics" (Recorded in New York, 1979)	Franz Xaver Gruber, Fripp

THRAK BOX Discs 7 & 8 (Kcensington THRAK - Royal Albert Hall, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, 17-18 May 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Entry of the Crims" (Walk On: Improv)
2.	"VROOOM"
3.	"Coda: Marine 475" (Coda)
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"Dinosaur"
6.	"One Time"
7.	"Red"	Fripp
8.	"B'Boom"
9.	"THRAK"
10.	"Heartbeat"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
11.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
12.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"
13.	"People"
14.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
15.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
16.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
17.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
18.	"Prism"	Pierre Favre
19.	"The Talking Drum"	David Cross, Fripp, John Wetton, Bruford, Jamie Muir
20.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp
21.	"Walking on Air"

THRAK BOX Discs 9 & 10 (New YorKc THRAK - King Crimson on Broadway, 20-25 November 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Conundrum"	Bruford, Mastelotto	1:57
2.	"Thela Hun Ginjeet"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	6:43
3.	"Red"	Fripp	6:29
4.	"Dinosaur"		7:16
5.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		4:48
6.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:10
7.	"Walking on Air"		5:28
8.	"B'Boom"		5:35
9.	"THRAK"		6:31
10.	"Neurotica"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:34
11.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		4:58
12.	"People"		6:14
13.	"One Time"		5:55
14.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	7:16
15.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	2:02
16.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:17
17.	"Prism"	Favre	3:56
18.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir	2:59
19.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two"	Fripp	7:27
20.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:22
21.	"VROOOM"		3:54
22.	"Coda: Marine 475"		2:41
23.	"Fearless and Highly THRaKked" (Improv)		2:31
24.	"Free as a Bird" (Solo Belew performance based on a demo)	John Lennon	3:03

THRAK BOX Discs 11 & 12 (AzteKc THRAK - Live in Mexico City, 2-4 August 1996)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Conundrum"	Bruford, Mastelotto
2.	"Thela Hun Ginjeet"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
3.	"Red"	Fripp
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"Dinosaur"
6.	"One Time"
7.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
8.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
9.	"B'Boom"
10.	"THRAK"
11.	"Waiting Man"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
12.	"Neurotica"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
13.	"The Sheltering Sky"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
14.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
15.	"VROOOM"
16.	"Marine 475" (Coda)
17.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"
18.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
19.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
20.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
21.	"Prism"	Favre
22.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir
23.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp
24.	"Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" (Improv)
25.	"21st Century Schizoid Man"	Fripp, Ian McDonald, Greg Lake, Michael Giles, Peter Sinfield

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 1 (THRaKaTTaK, 2 October-29 November 1995)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"THRAK"
2.	"Fearless and Highly THRAKked"
3.	"Mother Hold the Candle Steady While I Shave the Chicken's Lip"
4.	"THRaKaTTaK Part I"
5.	"The Slaughter of the Innocents"
6.	"This Night Wounds Time"
7.	"THRaKaTTaK Part II"
8.	"THRAK" (Reprise)

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 1 (B'Boom: Live in Argentina, 6-16 October 1994)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"VROOOM" (includes "Coda: Marine 475")		7:07
2.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:28
3.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"		5:23
4.	"Red"	Fripp	4:58
5.	"One Time"		5:45
6.	"B'Boom"		6:54
7.	"THRAK"		6:29
8.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin	1:26
9.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	4:25
10.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	7:38
11.	"VROOOM VROOOM"		6:18
12.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	3:43
13.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir	5:52
14.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp	7:31
15.	"Heartbeat"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	5:02
16.	"Sleepless"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin	6:11
17.	"People"		5:51
18.	"B'Boom" (Reprise)		4:26
19.	"THRAK"		5:33

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 2 (Live at the Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, California, 24-26 June 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Red"	Fripp
2.	"B'Boom"
3.	"THRAK"
4.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"VROOOM"
6.	"Coda: Marine 475"
7.	"Dinosaur"
8.	"One Time"
9.	"People"
10.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
11.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
12.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
13.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
14.	"Prism"	Favre
15.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir
16.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two"	Fripp
17.	"Walking on Air"

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 2 (déjà VROOOM, 5-6 October 1995)
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Circular Improv" (Walk On)
2.	"VROOOM"
3.	"Coda: Marine 475"
4.	"Frame by Frame"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
5.	"Dinosaur"
6.	"One Time"
7.	"Red"	Fripp
8.	"B'Boom"
9.	"THRAK"
10.	"Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait)	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
11.	"Three of a Perfect Pair"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
12.	"VROOOM VROOOM"
13.	"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream"
14.	"Two Sticks" (Improv)	Gunn, Levin
15.	"Elephant Talk"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
16.	"Indiscipline"	Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin
17.	"The Talking Drum"	Cross, Fripp, Wetton, Bruford, Muir
18.	"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)"	Fripp
19.	"People"
20.	"Walking on Air"

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 2 (Tony's Road Movies)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Race"
2.	"Rehearsal I"
3.	"Rehearsal II"
4.	"Dressing Room"
5.	"Tokyo"
6.	"From the Hotel"
7.	"Mr. Bill at the Station"

THRAK BOX Blu-ray 2 (THRAK EPK)
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Electronic Press Kit"

Personnel

King Crimson

Robert Fripp – guitar, mellotron, soundscapes, voice
Adrian Belew – guitar, lead vocals
Tony Levin – bass, extended-range bass, Chapman Stick, electric upright bass, funk fingers, backing vocals
Trey Gunn – Chapman Stick, Warr guitar, backing vocals
Bill Bruford – drums, electronic drums
Pat Mastelotto – drums, percussion

Releases

The album was first released on CD in 1995, followed by a remastered edition in 2002. A new 5.1 surround sound mix by Jakko Jakszyk was released as a CD/DVD-A release. ^[3]

References

External links

Elephant Talk Wiki Home

King Crimson

Studio albums

Live albums

Live albums	Earthbound USA The Great Deceiver B'Boom: Live in Argentina Thrakattak Epitaph The Night Watch Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal Live in Mexico City The ProjeKcts (Live at the Jazz Café, Masque) Heavy ConstruKction Vrooom Vrooom Ladies of the Road EleKtrik: Live in Japan Live at the Orpheum

King Crimson Collector's Club	Live at the Marquee Live at Jacksonville The Beat Club, Bremen Live at Cap D'Agde On Broadway Live in San Francisco The Vrooom Sessions Live at Summit Studios Live in Central Park, NYC Live at Moles Club, Bath Live in Hyde Park Nashville Rehearsals Live at Plymouth Guildhall Live in Mainz Live in Berkeley, CA Live in Northampton, MA Live in Detroit, MI Live in Nashville, TN Live at the Zoom Club The Champaign-Urbana Sessions Jazz Café Suite Live in Orlando, FL Live in Guildford Live at Filmore East Live in Philadelphia, PA Live in Austin, TX Live in Warsaw Live in Heidelberg Live in Brighton

Collectable King Crimson	The Collectable King Crimson Vol. 1: (Casino - Asbury Park, Live in Mainz) The Collectable King Crimson Vol. 2: (Live at Moles Club, Bath, Live in Philadelphia, PA) The Collectable King Crimson Vol. 4: Live in Warsaw

Compilations

EPs

Singles

Videos

The Noise: Frejus VHS
Déjà Vrooom DVD
Neal and Jack and Me includes The Noise: Frejus
Eyes Wide Open DVD

ProjeKcts

Related bands

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