SGLMG001 will be published on February 10th 2003 by Spaceward Graphics Ltd
Price £12.75 (+ VAT + postage & packing)

What is it?

It is a CD-ROM for PC and Mac - the first in a series of informative, insightful, interactive musical guides by Andrew Keeling to the secret mechanics that power the mysterious music of King Crimson. It is generously illustrated with photographs and musical notation diagrams that you simply click with your mouse to play using your computer's sound card. In addition to an analysis there's a not-to-be-missed, full study-score of 'Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part 2' that you can play, print out and keep.

13,600 words,
15 photographs (including some previously unpublished)
More than 80 resolution independent, multimedia, 'musical' illustrations*
Full score and synthetic performance of Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part 2*
*Comes complete with all necessary software to view and play score

This is a scholastic yet accessible work. Andrew Keeling's credentials as composer and academic are impeccable and he will be well-known to King Crimson enthusiasts as DGM recording artist and erstwhile diarist. Keeling's powerful, challenging ideas are given full throat by Mark Graham's brilliant, interactive, multimedia illustrations.

This guide takes you through all the complexities of the music, stripping away layer after layer to reveal the inner workings of the exquisite machinery of harmony, counterpoint and rhythm that, seemingly so effortlessly, go together to make: "Larks' Tongues In Aspic. This is a 'must-have' for all fans of good music and a definitive work on an icon of Progressive Rock.

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"I found the content stimulating, provocative, challenging and entertaining. It's extremely well-written, easily followed in terms of its navigation and lay-out and above all else it made me want to hear the album again" - Sid Smith (author "In the Court of King Crimson").

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Spaceward Graphics Ltd are developers and suppliers of Satori FilmFX (www.satoripaint.com), which is award-winning, resolution-independent, paint and image-editing software. The Spaceward brand will also be familiar to music fans - in the 70's and 80's Spaceward Studios was the location for the recording of many classic albums and singles as the discography at www.spacewardstudios.ukf.net attests.