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The '90s kept Belew busy, as he teamed up once more with his old pal David Bowie, who named the guitarist musical director for his massive 1990 Sound and Vision tour. Also during the decade, Belew issued several more solo releases (including 1990's Young Lions, 1992's Inner Revolution, 1994's Here, and 1996's Op Zop Too Wah, the latter two featured him playing all the instruments). In addition, he guested on other artists' recordings (Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral and The Fragile), and produced others (Jars of Clay). After an almost-ten-year hiatus, King Crimson reunited, resulting in the 1995 album THRAK and a supporting tour. Belew showed no sign of slowing down in the 21st century, as he continued to tour and record with Crimson (2000's ConstruKction of Light, 2003's The Power to Believe), issued a third recording with the Bears (2001's Car Caught Fire), and appeared on Back Against the Wall: A Tribute to Pink Floyd, an all-star prog and classic rock session in which the participants covered Pink Floyd's iconic album The Wall in full. 2004 saw rehearsals with the newest King Crimson lineup and additional recordings by the Bears while at the same time recording the first and second volumes of an ambitious run of solo albums called Sides. The first and third of these (Side One and Side Three) had Primus bassist Les Claypool and Tool drummer Danny Carey lending a hand while Side Two was more of a solo affair with only a couple of guest spots. The fourth of these albums, 2009's Side Four, was a live release by the Adrian Belew Power Trio that featured bassist Julie Slick and drummer Eric Slick. This long-running trio would become Belew's primary performing outlet over the coming years and was also featured on the 2009 studio album e. In 2013, Belew was invited by Trent Reznor to become the touring guitarist for Nine Inch Nails, and while the collaboration never materialized, he was featured on their album Hesitation Marks that same year. Around that same time, he was also involved in the King Crimson-related spin-off group the Crimson ProjeKCt, who released a handful of live albums including 2014's Live in Tokyo. 2014 also saw the release of Dust, a collection of demos and studio outtakes. Belew's interest in electronic manipulation of music led to him create a pair of unique apps -- FLUX -- which cuts and pastes content on your smartphone while adding unique musical content from the musician that makes it possible to never hear the same song the same way twice -- and FLUX:FX, an app for tablet computers that allows users to manipulate effects processing in a unique manner. A 2008 performance for German television was issued in CD and DVD formats in 2015 under the title Live at Rockpalast, and in 2017, Belew teamed with former Police drummer Stewart Copeland, Level 42 bassist Mark King, and keyboard player Vittorio Cosma to form the supergroup Gizmodrome. They introduced themselves with a self-titled studio album in 2017 and a concert recording, Gizmodrome Live, was issued in 2021. Belew was back in action as a solo artist with 2019's Pop Sided, a set of compositions for guitar and electronics -- he handled all the instruments and vocals himself. Another album in the same mold, Elevator, appeared in 2022. ~ Greg Prato & Mark Deming, Rovi
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