Curiosities Volume II

As Robert Fripp said to me recently: "I used to be indecisive but now I’m not sure". I’m not sure either, at least I don’t think I am. I’m normally wildly enthusiastic about any piece while I’m making it, although when I look across the breakfast table the next day they don’t always seem quite so appealing ( -it’s amazing what those red studio lights do for a complexion). However, one criterion for choosing these pieces was that I was always happy to see them again, even if I didn’t know quite what place they held in the scheme of things. As with the first volume of Curiosities, these were chosen because they’re odd-men-out, music unlikely to ever meet enough companions to make a whole CD in a single coherent style. As it turns out, the CD splits into two halves of identical length - half of it with some sort of beat followed by half without a beat. It was very hard deciding what to put on the CD. We changed it many times, and finally committed ourselves to this group. I used to be unable to make commitments but I’m not sure that’s a view I’d stand by now.