NewsKing Crimson / Heaven & Earth box
24-disc box set featuring CDs, blu-ray and DVD-As • Combo CD+DVD-A sets of two studio albums also available
King Crimson will release another one of their mega box sets in May. Heaven & Earth is the seventh in their ongoing series and focuses on the period from December 1997 to August 2008.
This box set features 18 CDs, 3 x blu-ray audio, one blu-ray video and two DVD-Audio discs. The first three CDs are devoted to enhanced version of the studio albums The ConstruKction Of Light (2000) and The Power to Believe (2003). The former has been remixed (by Don Gunn) and features all new drums by Pat Mastelotto and has a new moniker The ReconstruKction Of Light. The Power to Believe is featured as an extended/enhanced stereo mix and includes the studio version of Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With and Level 5.
The next four CDs feature the instrumental/improvised ProjeKcts, er, projects, described as “research and development” by Robert Fripp. These are all new to CD and each ‘ProjeKct’ each CD features a different line-up.
A further 11 CDs feature live recordings (several new to CD, with some material previously unreleased) from the 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2008 tours.
Of the three blu-ray audios:
- Disc One contains the complete recordings of ProjeKcts 1, 3, 4 & 6 – every single concert plus additional material the ProjeKcts released, it features the complete albums: ProjeKct 1- Space Groove, The ProjeKcts – 4CD box, ProjeKct 1 – Jazz Café Suite, ProjeKct X – Heaven & Earth, BPM&M – ExtraKcts & ArtifaKcts and Rieflin/Fripp/Gunn – Repercussions of Angelic Behaviour
- Disc Two contains the complete recordings of ProjeKct 2 (every single concert). More than 30 shows plus an album’s worth of rehearsals.
- Disc Three contains The ReconstruKction Of Light – the album in stereo and 5.1 mixes with the drums completely re-recorded by Pat Mastelotto – stereo mixes by Don Gunn, 5.1 mixes by David Singleton and the original album in hi-res stereo, The Power to Believe – expanded/enhanced 2019 master (2 tracks with additional elements plus 3 extra tracks assembled/mixed by David Singleton) and 5.1 surround mixes by David Singleton – all mixes executive produced by Robert Fripp – plus the Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With and Level 5 mini-albums, the 2000 show from London, the EleKtriK live album from 2003 and a video of a tour of the KC studio/live equipment setup from 2002.
There is also blu-Ray video disc of Europe 2000 – The Bootleg TV tour, which features around 10 hours of audio/video mostly never seen/heard since the concerts with versions of selected songs and improvs (usually two per night of each) from almost every show. Includes footage and music from 20 performances.
Finally, two DVD-As (compatible with all dvd players) feature The ReconstruKction of Light (new stereo/5.1/original stereo mixes plus ProjeKct X – Heaven & Earth) and The Power to Believe (2019 stereo/5.1/original master mixes plus Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With mini-album).
A detailed track listing will be available soon, but you get the general idea! As with the previous sets this box comes presented in a 12-inch box with booklet, memorabilia and new sleeve-notes by Sid Smith and David Singleton.
Heaven & Earth will be released on 31 May 2019 via Panegyric Recordings. If the big box is just too much you can opt for CD+DVD-A combos of The ReconstruKction Of Light and The Power to Believe. All three products can be ordered from the SDE shop (worldwide shipping) using this link or the buttons below (scroll down for price comparison widgets).
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Does anyone know if in the bluray disc 1 the projects have surround 5.1 mix or Just stereo mixes ?
I just received this treasure in the mail. I haven’t digested the whole thing, but I can say that the ReconstruKCtion of Light is more powerful with the newly recorded drum track. Pat’s fills seem to explode from the speakers. It’s a marked improvement over the original, which was an awesome disc of begin with.
Amazon UK also informed me about the delay several days ago.
Burning shed has informed that the box set will be delayed to 7 June, since the American release has also been delayed and they want to have the release simultaneous. Does this also apply here?
Yes, sorry was going to send an email…
I’m just now reading this post. I wasn’t aware there were going to be CD/DVD-A sets, to complete the 40th Anniversary Series.
Hi Paul – any idea how much shipping from the SDE shoppe to the USA will cost? Or do I not really want to know?
Not cheap I’m afraid, although you can potentially minimise it by buying a few more bits. We have been known to thrown in a free T-shirts, too :)
Wanting to order this Behemoth of a box…..How do you get a discount code….or a free (2XL) shirt… Afraid its only going to the UK but it is God’s country
This is the sound of one of the most inventive acts ever in the whole history of music trying desperately to find yet another new identity, and ultimately (IMHO) failing to do so; but leaving behind in the process many fascinating experiments. It is quite ironic how the way to the future (now the present) of King Crimson arrived quite unexpectedly through the Scarcity Of Miracles project, tagged as yet another Projeckt as an afterthought to legitimise the genealogy of the Crimson dinasty. Perhaps after the realisation that a Belew fronted band would, at best, be too derivative of the 1980’s band for Fripp tastes…
Certainly not the place to introduce yourself to the Crimson saga, unless you have a very adventurous pair of ears.
Me? Having all the previous boxes, I think I have to complete the series!
I’ve been following this site since day 1 and appreciate everything that Paul does – even if it has cost me tens of thousands over the many years. Paul, if ever you’re in Perth Australia mate come and stay and you can enjoy some home cooked bush tucker on me :)
Thanks! Would love to visit Australia one day…
Is there a list somewhere of the box sets in the series?
https://burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/king-crimson-boxsets
First you had the ITCOTCK box set.
Then, in no particular order, Complete Larks’ Tongues In Aspic, The Road To Red, Starless, THRAK, On (And Off) The Road and finally Heaven And Earth.
If those are too much, they broke them down to cd/dvd sets with primarily the important items, i.e. the original albums with new and original mixes and some additional bonus tracks and some videos to accompany them. If you go to the Discogs website, they have pretty good info on each release.
Did Steven Wilson pass on these 5.1 mixes?
Sorry but the prize of AMAZON is not correct: EUR 173,85 (…)
It is correct. You are probably looking at in GBP
https://www.amazon.fr/Heaven-Earth-King-Crimson/dp/B07Q47ZXP4/?tag=sdepcwfr-21
The widget shows £148 or if you change the currency to Euros €173. I’m not sure why you are posting this link or what you think is wrong.
Sorry i did not see the currency … Not in sale in uk Paul … :( Thanks!!!!!
It is on sale in the UK, in the SDE shop!
Not my day, as you can see ;) I mean AMAZON.UK. Springtime is killing me … :) Thanks for your excellent work! Greetings from Barcelona.
Hi Paul, I was going to order this great new box but the dropdown menu doesn’t include Israel were I reside, help!
To Stuart Ansell and Willy: I just said what I think about the box and where my love for King Crimson ends. If both of you like it it’s not of my business. My intention was to express myself only and NOT tease anyone here. If you both felt offended by me I’m really sorry and it’s a needless reaction. It was just my words, my idea about this release.
By the way Paul does a great job here, I love SDE since I found it some years ago and I check it everyday since then.
Keep the job Paul.
WE LOVE IT !!!!
Best band on the face of the earth.. Michael Giles is my favorite drummer (along with Billy Cobham from Mahavishnu Orchestra) ,wish he’d at least do a couple of shows with KC again.
There is Super deluxe and there is King Crimson. Every box just ups the ante
Just ordered from you Paul. Very much looking forward to it and completes my KC box collection.
Thank you Ian.
Another tremendous set. Looking forward to it. Thanks, Paul.
For those unclear on the meaning of “DVD-A.” At the risk of oversimplification to the point of error, the discs usually have both lossless and lossy layers on them, the latter playable in just about any commercial DVD player. The former requires a DVD-A player proper, or a compatible optical drive with software on a PC that can find the layer and play it for you. (Though, most people’s equipment require DAC oversampling to get the lossless stuff to work, so your mileage on the lossless layers may vary…).
Imagine all the fun we’d have with disc errors if Fripp entrusted Edsel with putting these enormo-boxes together… :-D
Glad to read all the positive comments. :)
This box is going to be the most incredible of the series in terms of content, way more than the previous ones which were already astonishing !
The one thing left to do is a similar boxset for the first album (there was a 4-disc box already – but it was before this series and was not really up to par content-wise), and the almost complete History of KC’s studio and live albums will have been covered by Mega box sets rich in content !
If you buy all these, and suscribe to the 1000CLUB on the official website, ($100 a year during which you can download the equivalent of $500 in Flac files), for something like three years, you may very well get close to owning ALL the live recordings that exists for this band! (From the recordings that have survived, of course). We’re talking about hundreds of shows from a 50 year career !
Not many bands offers this opportunity to their fans.
KC are the champions.
They are reissuing the first album in a boxset later this year with a lot more discs than the 40th anniversary box had. Details on the DGM website are:
In The Court of the Crimson King Companion & Boxed Set
Oct: Released to coincide and celebrate the original release date of King Crimson’s debut album on 12th October 1969:
Limited edition expanded boxed set of “In The Court of the King Crimson” including all the live recordings, the expanded multitrack 1969 recording sessions, as well as a new 5.1 remix of the album.DGM Companion Vol 1, edited by Robert Fripp & David Singleton – Vinyl sized coffee table book covering the history of “In The Court of Crimson King”, with complete timeline, extensive photos, recollections and essays.
The 40th Anniversary Box Set of ‘In The Court Of Crimson King’ contains 5CDs and a DVD. My copy is going on Fleabay and Discogs over the weekend, the 50th Anniversary Enormo Box is for me. And whoever else wants it!
As a truly frustrated Zeppelin fan you have to admire what Fripp has done
with the KC brand .The boxes i have bought of KC are things of beauty with so much extra detail
and an embarrassment of live recordings ,contrast this with the ongoing saga of the live Zeppelin recordings that will never see the light.KC fans are lucky indeed.
Paul – where is the shipping options for Amazon USA for us Aussies :) PS Love this web site – been a follower since day 1 and almost can’t live without it!
The SDE shop ships to both, although I’m afraid it’s not cheap…
This band is so enlightened in the way they offer copious material at value for money prices – quite extraordinary. I may have to become a later period KC fan just to avail myself of these products.
Joy! Another KC cornucopia!
Besides, I have a small question.
How “limited” are those limited editions?
Having been unemployed for a while now, I see all those glorious boxsets come and go and I hate to think that one day they will be sold out and the few available copies will be ridiculously priced…
It already happened to me with Mike Oldfield’s Crises boxset…
I don’t know the exact numbers that they press but the Starless box now seems to be sold out from Burning Shed and other places and the few that are available have started creeping up in price.
True. I recently bought Road to Red because stocks were starting to get low at some vendors. These sets are great, but still represent a large chunk to spend in one place. I don’t want to know what they’ll cost once they’re OOP. The only one I need now is Sailors…. and this new one…..
I’m not a King Crimson fan but salivate every time one of these is released imagining my favourites releasing sets like these.
Hope King Crimson fans realise how lucky they are.
Agreed.
What a treat for fans. The 24 disc affair is superbly priced.
Are the DVD-A sets lossless audio? Thanks
Isn’t that was DVD-A delivers, if you have a DVD-A player?
Art they really DVD-A or just DVD-V with a black picture? “compatible with all dvd players” sound suspiciously like the latter…
No, they are DVD-As. They make a point of mentioning it and of course they are audiophile target market. They say ‘compatible with all DVD players’ so as not to put off people who think they need specialist equipment, to access the 5.1 etc.
MY KING CRIMSON IS INVINCIBLE
https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/285947-samsung-will-stop-making-new-blu-ray-players
It would be nice to order box sets like this, but with a shipping cost of £80.00 to NZ it makes it too prohibitive. I recently had the Bowie LtA vinyl box set shipped from the U.K. for £3.58. Go figure!
I do appreciate that shipping to Aus, Japan, USA for bigger boxes is expensive.
My love for King Crimson goes up to Three Of A Perfect Pair. I must confess I really tired to go on but when they return the albums (from Vrooom Vrooom on) are SO BORING that I had to gave up. Some of the albums are just impossible to hear twice and I do dare if even Robert Fripp does it. I really wonder why should one buy it. It’s a waste of time and money. Mr Fripp is a wise man and he knows too well how to make a huge amount of money. He has been releasing the same old material for decades by DGM (his own label) and it seems he will not stop until the end of times. Shame on him !!!
Other opinions are available.
It’s not a waste of time and money to those who love this stuff, the people for whom it is intended.
And I’m not sure Mr Fripp makes a “huge amount of money” from these. However he does always ensure that the artists get their fair share, which is only to be commended.
I quite agree Willy. For those of us who like/love it, this set (around £135 delivered in the UK) is fantastic value – £5.50ish a disc including 4 Blu-rays and 2 DVD-As is damn good value and puts the efforts of some bands to shame. I’d take exception to the idea that Robert is somehow fleecing his fans with this – he’s clearly not, and whilst the music isn’t for everyone (no music is to everyone’s taste, and just because a particular era of a band’s music doesn’t work for you, doesn’t make it worthless or ‘impossible to hear twice’, or indeed ‘boring’, just means you don’t like it, which is fine, other opinions are available) it’ll sell well to those of us for whom it is intended and who have been waiting expectantly for ages.
Be. Nice.
There is stuff announced daily, hourly even that isn’t for me, not to my tastes. People like it, that’s good for them, more power their elbow. Some stuff seems a bit steep for the amount of content, that’s a matter of opinion and expectation, but there’s a nice way and a not nice way of expressing those opinions.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to ‘waste my time and money’ (and to be very clear it’s MY time and money, and I’ll waste it any way I chuffing well like thank you very much) by pre-ordering this box set.
Keep up the good work Paul, this site is brill.
At US $235 with shipping, I’ll have to hope and wait for US availability (Amazon or Deep Discount).
You can order from the King Crimson shop, Inner Knot. $190.00. Not sure if this includes shipping.
https://shop.schizoidshop.com/king-crimson—heaven-and-earth-boxed-set-p1792.aspx
While I try to use Paul’s links as much as possible, when it comes to these KC box sets, Burning Shed always seems to be the most economical for us USA buyers (even better than the eventual Amazon USA price). This one is no exception with a bottom line price of $164 (price excludes VAT for the US).
For the record, even as a “frequent flier,” I’ve found that Inner Knot never beats Burning Shed.
Is there a way to ‘know’ what the VAT will be for USA orders?
Gonna cost a mortgage to get it here in the States, but they always do and are always worth it. Cannot wait as this is the era of King Crimson I have yet to really dive into.
Paul! Do you ship to Spain?
Sure do…
So, looks like this won’t include the pro-shot disc one of the ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ DVD, then? It’s pretty comprehensive otherwise. Or maybe it will be included with the BootlegTV stuff, just not listed (yet)?
I hate to complain, what with the embarrassment of riches on offer here – it’s just one little thing short of being perfect – , but the released EYS disc desperately needs an upgrade, what with being non-anamorphic widescreen (who still does that anyway, and why?) and substandard audio.
Ordered from you!
Thank you very much :)
In Fripp we trust.
Have to get it as the previous ..à dream comes True for every KC addict
Burning Shed are selling at £130
https://burningshed.com/king-crimson_heaven-and-earth_boxset
So cheaper on the SDE shop, then…
As with all the previous box sets in the series, I’ll wait for the Japanese edition (called ‘Japan Assemble’), bundling with the box set a Disk Union box set with numerous empty ‘Paper Sleeve’ replicas, released by WHD Entertainment in the past, and now by WOWOW Entertainment; and sold by both Disk Union and WOWOW Entertainment.
As with all the previous CD/DVD-A combos, I’ll wait for the Japanese editions too; they come in Paper Sleeve replicas with obi strip replicas. At Disk Union, they come with an additional official box (one box per album, really cool).
Japanese edition looks nice, but it’s 40,000 yen! (More than double the UK price!)
I don’t know much about KC but £125 for all that is very good value compared to most of the recent boxes I’m interested in (e. g. New Order)
I’m not a huge KC fan, but damn if these aren’t impressive sets. I’ll bet fans of every band out there wish that their favorite artists had sets like this, and that Crimson’s own fans weep for joy every time one of these is announced.
Yeah, us crimso die hards are pretty much weeping for joy! Oh, happiest of days!!!!!
Still waiting for my 19-CD Free box set ….
As ever, King Crimson show how it can be done in terms of box set releases. I treasure every one of their other releases and the price is extremely reasonable given the wealth of material! Goodness knows how many hours of music there are featured in this release. Amazing.
Bob gets it. These are for fans only but they’re beautifully done and truly limited.