This is my conversation with David Singleton. It took place on 2/3/2024 from his home near London.

David Singleton (born 1961) is an English record producer, audio engineer, record label director, musician, songwriter, author and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the production and business partner of Robert Fripp of King Crimson.

Singleton is the co-owner/director (with Fripp) of the Discipline Global Mobile record label, half of the Ton Prob production team (again with Fripp) and the developer of the BootlegTV live concert streaming setup. Singleton has co-produced and/or engineered almost every Robert Fripp release (including King Crimson albums, EPs and archive releases) since 1992, and has also worked on releases by Bill Nelson, Bill Bruford, Europa String Choir and many others.

In addition to his production and label administration work, Singleton has pursued an intermittent career as musician and songwriter. He released a solo single in the early 1980s and was part of the 1990s art-pop band Camilla's Little Secret. His work as producer has extended beyond executive and technical roles to embrace creative musical collaborations, generally using his skills as an audio technician and an aficionado of found sound. Singleton has collaborated with King Crimson (as re-arranger/re-composer of band material) on several albums released during the 1990s and 2000s.

Singleton currently releases his own material under the alias of The Vicar – a multimedia project persona that has produced a story blog and videoblogs, printed fiction, graphic novels, and song albums.


Discography (selected) as producer: For King Crimson (selected)
King Crimson – Frame by Frame: The Essential King Crimson (compilation, 1991) – engineering, mixing
King Crimson – The Great Deceiver (Live 1973–1974) (1992, reissued 2007) – mixing, liner notes
King Crimson – Vrooom (1994) – digital editing, mastering
King Crimson – Thrak (1995) – assistant producer, digital editing & assembly, composer
King Crimson – Thrakattak (1996) – arranger, digital editing, mastering
King Crimson – Epitaph (1997) – producer, liner notes
King Crimson – The Night Watch (1997) – mixing
King Crimson – Absent Lovers: Live in Montreal 1984 (1998) – engineering, editing, mixing, mastering
King Crimson – Cirkus: The Young Persons' Guide to King Crimson Live (compilation, 1999) – producer, mixing, mastering
King Crimson – The ProjeKcts (box set, 1999) – producer, engineering, mastering
King Crimson – Heavy ConstruKction (2000) – producer, mastering
King Crimson – Level Five (2001) – mastering
King Crimson – Vrooom Vrooom (2001) – producer
King Crimson – Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With (2002) – producer, engineering
King Crimson – Ladies of the Road (2002) – producer
King Crimson – The Power to Believe (2003) – editing, sequencing, production mastering, composer

For Robert Fripp
Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists – Show of Hands (1991) – mixing
Robert Fripp – Soundscapes: Live in Argentina (1994) – producer, engineering, digital editing, mastering
Robert Fripp String Quintet – The Bridge Between (1994) – producer, engineering, liner notes
Robert Fripp – Radiophonics: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 1 (1995) – producer, digital editing, mastering
Robert Fripp – A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 2 (1995) – producer, engineering, digital editing, mastering
Robert Fripp & The League of Crafty Guitarists – Intergalactic Boogie Express: Live in Europe 1991 (1995) – producer, engineering, editing, mastering
Robert Fripp – That Which Passes: 1995 Soundscapes, Vol. 3 (1996) – producer, digital editing, mastering
Robert Fripp & The League of Gentlemen – Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx (1996) – producer, editing, mastering
Robert Fripp – November Suite: 1996 Soundscapes – Live at Green Park Station (1997) – engineering, digital composition
Robert Fripp – Pie Jesu (1997) – producer
Robert Fripp – The Gates of Paradise (1998) – producer, digital composition
Fripp & Eno – The Equatorial Stars (2005) – administration
Robert Fripp – At the End of Time: Churchscapes – Live in England & Estonia, 2006 (2007) – editing, engineering, mastering
Theo Travis/Robert Fripp – Thread (2008) – engineering, photography
Theo Travis/Robert Fripp – Follow (2012) – engineering
Robert Fripp/Andrew Keeling/David Singleton – The Wine of Silence (2012) – producer, engineering, treatments, revision, mixing consultant, composer, liner notes