Sembra che su Discipline si inizi a mettere a fuoco palesemente la frequentazione di Gurdjieff che Fripp si era concesso per "perdersi in galassie e nebulose indistinte, a scovare mondi nuovi, quelli dentro noi stessi". E il lavoro di Gurdjieff su se stessi, un lavoro di scavamento spietato, si nota nel disco. La disciplina indispensabile per allenarsi al "salto", e il lavoro risulta necessariamente rigoroso.
La sensazione che dà di "freddezza, cerebralismo, nevrosi e vuoto tecnicismo" si poteva riscontrare anche sulle Danze Sacre di Gurdjieff che spiazzavano gli spettatori per l'assenza e l'invisibile che rappresentavano, cosa che Discipline ci si riconosce: la mancanza d'appigli determina il fraintendimento che invece è un'esplorazione di lidi non focalizzabili con una visione normale. È presente la vanità di Fripp ma il sentimento lo comunica impersonalmente così da risultare pulito e lo sfrutta per osare l'impensabile.
Robert sa che solo col lavoro (e tanto lavoro) si ottengono i risultati. Fripp, come Gurdjieff dopo l'incidente in auto quasi mortale del 1924, rinuncia alla scorciatoia di ottenere risultati immediati sfruttando i poteri esoterici acquisiti riconoscendo la limitazione egoica, accettando la sua solitudine archetipica e proponendola alla portata di tutti con successo: dà e chiede denso coinvolgimento... "sciogliamoci nell'ombra..."
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01 Elephant Talk (04:42)
Talk, it's only talk
Arguments, agreements, advice, answers,
Articulate announcements
It's only talk
Talk, it's only talk
Babble, burble, banter, bicker bicker bicker
Brouhaha, balderdash, ballyhoo
It's only talk
Back talk
Talk talk talk, it's only talk
Comments, cliches, commentary, controversy
Chatter, chit-chat, chit-chat, chit-chat,
Conversation, contradiction, criticism
It's only talk
Cheap talk
Talk, talk, it's only talk
Debates, discussions
These are words with a D this time
Dialog, duologue, diatribe,
Dissention, declamation
Double talk, double talk
Talk, talk, it's all talk
Too much talk
Small talk
Talk that trash
Expressions, editorials, explanations, exclamations, exaggerations
It's all talk
Elephant talk? Elephant talk? Elephant talk!
02 Frame by Frame (05:10)
Frame by frame (Suddenly)
Death by drowning (from within)
In your, in your analysis.
Step by step (Suddenly)
Doubt by numbers (from within)
In your, in your analysis.
03 Matte Kudasai (03:48)
Still, by the window pane
Pain, like the rain that's falling
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America
When, when was the night so long
Long, like the notes I'm sending
She waits in the air
Matte Kudasai
She sleeps in a chair
In her sad America
04 Indiscipline (04:33)
I do remember one thing.
It took hours and hours but..
by the time I was done with it,
I was so involved, I didn't know what to think.
I carried it around with me for days and days..
playing little games
like not looking at it for a whole day
and then.. looking at it.
to see if I still liked it.
I did.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat myself when under stress.
I repeat..
The more I look at it,
the more I like it.
I do think it's good.
The fact is..
no matter how closely I study it,
no matter how I take it apart,
no matter how I break it down,
It remains consistant.
I wish you were here to see it.
I like it.
05 Thela Hun Ginjeet (06:26)
Thela hun ginjeet thela hun ginjeet
Qua tari mei thela hun ginjeet
Qua tari mei heat in the jungle street
"Well, first of all,
I couldn't even see his face.
I couldn't see his face.
He was holding a gun in his hand.
Umm... I was thinking...
This is a dangerous place..
This is a dangerous place.."
Thela hun ginjeet thela hun ginjeet.
Qua tari mei thela hun ginjeet.
Qua tari mei heat in the jungle street.
I said, "I'm nervous as hell from this stuff.
I thought those guys were going to kill me for sure.
They ganged up on me like that.
I couldn't believe it.
Look, I'm still shakin'.
Weird.
There out in the streets like that.
It's a dangerous place.
It's a dangerous place."
So, suddenly, these two guys appear in front of me.
They stopped.
Real aggressive.
Start at me, you know.
"What's that?" "What's that on that tape?"
"What do you got there?"
I said, "huh?"
They said, "What are you talking into that for?"
I said, "It's just a tape, you know"
"Well play it for me"
I said "oh, no"
I put it off as long as I could.
And finally they turned it on, you know
They grabbed it from me.
Took it away from me.
Turned it on.
And it said, "He held a gun in his hand. This is a dangerous place."
They said, "What dangerous place?" "What gun?" "You're a policeman!"
And the deeper I talked, the worse I got into it.
I talked, I told him... I said, "Look man, I'm not talkin'...."
It went on forever.
Anyway, I finally unbuttoned my shirt, and said,
"look, look... I'm in this band, you know, I'm in this band you know,
and we're makin' a recording, you know.
It's about New York City, it's about crime in the streets..."
The explanation was going nowhere, but,
Finally, they just kinda let me go, I don't know why.
So I walk around the corner,
and I'm like shakin' like a leaf,
and I thought, "This is a dangerous place once again, you know."
Who should appear, but two policeman.
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Altre recensioni
Di Egli
Un disco, insomma, magari non proprio capolavoro, ma decisamente bello e consigliabile.
Elephant Talk, ove Belew si mette in mostra facendo barrire la propria chitarra.
Di Elephantalk
Il rapporto si basa sull'interazione fra chitarre, che assume: rete dialogale, dialoghi tipo "Botta e Risposta", sovrapposizioni ed incisioni.
Senza dubbio, non è un capolavoro Discipline, ma è a mio parere l'album più bello dei King Crimson anni '80.
Di Emme.
Discipline è un vero e proprio capolavoro superiore a qualsiasi altro lavoro fatto prima.
Il risultato stupefacente che ottenne il disco va attribuito proprio a Belew.
Di Giammotto
"Discipline is never an end in itself, only a means to an end."
"Il lato oscuro della disciplina, l'indisciplina 'I LIKE IT!' come dice l'urlo finale di Belew."
