The Deception of the Thrush: A Beginners’ Guide to ProjeKcts

The Deception of the Thrush: A Beginners' Guide to ProjeKcts is a King Crimson compilation, released on 26 October 1999 on Discipline Global Mobile. It gathers a selection of tracks from the live box set The ProjeKcts, making it a more manageable way into one of the band's more unusual chapters.

Between 1997 and 1999, King Crimson "fraKctalised" into four successive experimental sub-groups, ProjeKcts One to Four, hunting for new directions and material. Robert Fripp on guitar and Trey Gunn on Warr guitar were in every line-up, alongside one of the band's drummers, with Tony Levin on bass and Chapman Stick in ProjeKcts One and Four. The music began largely improvised, then themes emerged and were reworked in later versions. Many of those ideas fed into the studio album The ConstruKction of Light, so this is a useful look at the workshop behind it.