The Magnificent Seven

As a preamble to my comment, I said immediately that I attribute a score to this record that because Amazon makes this necessary step. In reality, in this case, "3 stars" that is too much or not enough.
Let me explain: many pluses are that this album deserves at least FOUR stars.
First, any fan of Crimson will of course be delighted with the return of the true group (which had nothing really new engraved under that name for almost a dozen years), not just one of countless groups in parallel -Titles "ProjeKcts", which does not always Fripp also participated himself.
Then training is radically different from the 2003 Crimson: we find here in Fripp guitars (obviously) and Jakko Jakszyk (which also sings), Tony Levin on bass (logical), Mel Collins on sax and flute, and no less than three drummers simultaneously present on stage (!): Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Bill Rieflin (which is the only true "new", as all the others have already played in the past or with Fripp, is squarely in within Crimson).
Third positive point is presented live on CD and DVD (with audio only, containing in LPCM 96kHz sampled and encoded on 24 bits). It is specified on the cover that the DVD is readable by any player.
Finally, the selection of titles draws mainly unusually crimsonien in the directory of the seventies: there is a long time since it had not produced so too insistent, and personally, I find the idea seemed excellent ...
By cons, unpleasant surprises and disappointments are also the rendezvous.
First of all, what does this frankly ridiculous 40-minute ??? I know that the quality of an album Crimson is not measured "per kilo", but then in 2015 a CD may contain stride up to 80 minutes of music, how to justify that it only lasts half? So technically indefensible, but also artistically: on BOTH concerts from which the album, there was the opportunity to find many other pieces "correctly" interpreted, right? There also plenty of room to decorate some DVD titles filmed during these two concerts.
Second, we must recognize that the General acoustics are not great anyway, and some options prove surprising: low invasive on track 2 ("One More Red Nightmare") as they are more balanced on the other, much lower noise level on the track 7 ("Starless") than previous.
Finally, and perhaps ESPECIALLY: the presence of September musicians in this new version of the group foreshadowed delusions at the height of the great tsunami of sound which we bestowed the "double trio" between 1994 and 1997. However, it is nothing: the directory is addressed "old" in a style that clearly recalls the Crimson in the first half of the 70 Even the newest single title ("The ConstruKction of Light", 2000) is interpreted in this Optical. Why not, of course, but then a question imposes: What Fripp used to dissolve the group 74, except for reforming another forty years later, and "do it again" with?
I would add in conclusion that the voice of Jakszyk pleases me decidedly not. In fact, I think it is sorely lacking in character on A Scarcity Of Miracles (A King Crimson ProjeKct) [Deluxe Edition] [CD + DVD Audio], he imitated Adrian Belew (which itself imitates David Byrne). Here, he makes us number one "on John Wetton" without of course ever managing to equal the great original rendition of "Starless" for example.
So, how to say? We are both pleased and disappointed by this disc: glad it exists, but it is disappointed that in this form, with this content, and in this style. It only remains to hope for a future studio album with new compositions and, hopefully, a new sound. With Fripp, anything is possible, right?