Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal

Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal
Live album by King Crimson
Released	23 June 1998 (1998-06-23)
Recorded	11 July 1984 (1984-07-11)
Venue	The Spectrum, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genre	Progressive rock, experimental rock
Length	104:38
Label	Discipline Global Mobile
Producer	Robert Fripp, David Singleton
King Crimson chronology
The Night Watch (1997) Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal (1998) Live at the Marquee (1998)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The A.V. Club	favourable[2]

Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal is a live album (2-CD set) by the band King Crimson, recorded 11 July 1984 and released in 1998. This was taken from the final night of their 1984 tour and would subsequently be King Crimson's last performance until the warm-up shows in Argentina ten years later for the later-to-be-released album THRAK.

Track listing

All music by Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp and Tony Levin, unless otherwise indicated. All lyrics by Belew.

Disc one

1. "Entry of the Crims" – 6:27
2. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part III)" – 5:05
3. "Thela Hun Ginjeet"  – 7:07
4. "Red" (Fripp) – 5:49
5. "Matte Kudasai" (待ってください, Please Wait) – 3:45
6. "Industry" – 7:31
7. "Dig Me" – 3:59
8. "Three of a Perfect Pair" – 4:30
9. "Indiscipline" – 8:14

Disc two

1. "Sartori in Tangier" – 4:40
2. "Frame by Frame" – 3:57
3. "Man with an Open Heart" – 3:44
4. "Waiting Man" – 6:26
5. "Sleepless" – 6:08
6. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) – 7:54
7. "Discipline" – 5:04
8. "Heartbeat" – 5:15
9. "Elephant Talk" – 8:56

Personnel

King Crimson

• Robert Fripp – Electric guitar, Guitar synthesizer, Mixing, Mastering, Production
• Adrian Belew – Electric guitar, Drums, Vocals
• Tony Levin – Bass guitar, Chapman Stick, Synthesizer, Backing Vocals, Photography
• Bill Bruford – Drums, Electronic drums, Percussion

Staff

• George Glossop - Live Mixing
• Brad Davis - Recording Engineer
• David Singleton - Mixing, Mastering, Engineering, Editing
• Alex Mundy - Assistant Engineering
• SADiE - Digital Editing
• DOCdata - Glass Master
• P. J. Crook - Paintings "Absent Lovers I & II"
• Steve Ball - "Discipline" Logo
• Hugh O'Donnell - Sleeve Design
• Ryūji Sasaki (uncredited) - Director of Three of a Perfect Pair live video (stills used on liner notes)

References