Show of Hands

Robert Fripp | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 12, 1991)
• Original Release Date: April 30, 1991
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Editions Eg Records
• ASIN: B000003S3Y
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,086 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #48 in Music > Indie Music > Rock > Rock Guitarists

Track Listings

1. Listen

2. Eye of the Needle

3. Askesis

4. Bicycling to Afghanistan

5. Here Comes My Sweetie

6. An Easy Way

7. Scaling the Whales

8. The Moving Force

9. A Connecticut Yankee in the Court of King Arthur

10. This Yes

11. Are You Abel? (Ready and Able to Rock & Roll)

12. Spasm for Juanita

13. Hard Times

14. Burning Siesta

15. Empty Magazine

16. Circulation

17. Chiara

18. Asturias

19. Ease God's Sorrow

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars beautiful, quirky, amazing, March 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Show of Hands (Audio CD)

a VERY different acoustic guitar album, with Fripp's trademark polyrhythms and strangeness. My personal favorite is "Asturias"(not to be confused with the famous Albeniz piece of the same name), which is posetively entrancing.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One Of The Best Records Ever Made, September 27, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Show of Hands (Audio CD)

Complex, intricate, beautiful. Steven Reich meets Beethoven meets King Crimson ala Mr. Fripp's dutiful attention to orchestration via mechanization. 17 guitarists playing as one playing as 17. Patricia Leavitt paces the record with her words and dynamic vocal range.

Truly amazing.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful and Unique Acoustic Guitar Album, December 20, 2002

By 

J. M. Myles "Myles" (Manchester, NH United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Show of Hands (Audio CD)

This album has some fantastic orchestrated acoustic guitar work. I'm particularly fond of the haunting avant guard flamenco influenced track Asturias. It's just wonderful. Where this CD really falls short for me on the vocal tracks. Though the a cappella Fripp-ian scale work is technically impressive, I can't say I enjoy listening to it. To each his own. Even so, I highly recommend this album.