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Various Artists - Sometimes God Hides: The Young Person's Guide to Discipline

Track listing:
  1. Cage King Crimson 1:35
  2. Red King Crimson 5:52
  3. Burned by the Fire we Make Adrian Belew 2:48
  4. Sleepwalk California Guitar Trio 2:15
  5. Mingled Roots Tony Levin 2:33
  6. Midnight Blue Robert Fripp 4:27
  7. Hope The Robert Fripp String Quartet 3:46
  8. THRaKaTTaK I King Crimson 3:40
  9. Radiophonic II Robert Fripp 3:10
  10. Voices of Ancient Children Los Gauchos Alemanes 2:29
  11. A Better Time (Acappella) Peter Hammill 3:27
  12. Train To Lamy Suite California Guitar Trio 4:19
  13. The Last Three Minutes Ten Seconds 2:36
  14. The Third Star Trey Gunn 2:32
  15. Sermon on the Mount Europa String Choir 3:21
  16. Be Longing Gitbox 2:12
  17. Scanning II Robert Fripp 1:10
  18. Inductive Resonance The League of Gentlemen 3:18
  19. Real Life Trey Gunn 3:31
  20. Epitaph King Crimson 7:08
  21. Sometimes God Hides Robert Fripp 6:47
  22. Sometimes God Hides Robert Fripp 6:49

Notes

Sometimes God Hides is a musical stew made up of guitar-laden progressive and jazz-rock tracks, mainly from King Crimson and their solo members. With the likes of Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp leading the way, this sampler from the DGM label offers a kaleidoscopic journey through the amazing guitar craft of these talented musicians, along with some excitingly vivid excursions from Trey Gunn and the California Guitar Trio and a peculiar mix of new age and ambient from the Europa String Choir. Subtitled "The Young Persons' Guide to Discipline," these 23 tracks open up a whole new world of guitar and string manipulation, fusing familiar techniques with aberrant rhythms, electronic pastiches, and appealing yet incongruous string arrangements. Cuts such as Belew's "Burned By the Fire We Make" and King Crimson's "Red" (from an official bootleg album out of Argentina) tread on cordial rock ground but are still entertaining while, at the other end of the spectrum, tracks like Peter Hammill's haunting a cappella entitled "A Better Time" and "Voices of Ancient Children" from Los Gauchos Alemanes swoop and soar with a blend of new age mystery and modernized ambience. While the focal point of most of the songs is the guitar, the surrounding atmosphere of trancelike keyboard runs and unique string applications creates a multi-dimensional effect throughout each track. Moody and eccentric, this sampler makes for a truly peculiar instrumental journey.