other titles...
- SUITE IN C; including TURNHAM GREEN, HERE I AM and others
- FLIGHT OF THE IBIS
- IS SHE WAITING?
- TOMORROW’S PEOPLE - THE CHILDREN OF TODAY
- BIRDMAN; involving
- (a) THE INVENTOR’S DREAM (O.U.A.T.)
- (b) THE WORKSHOP
- (c) WISHBONE ASCENSION
- (d) BIRDMAN FLIES!
- (e) WINGS IN THE SUNSET
- (f) BIRDMAN - THE REFLECTION
McDonald And Giles
McDonald And Giles (2023 reissue)
panegyric
This is the first official release of the album on vinyl in decades & the first time since 1970 that the album has been cut from the original masters.
The shock of King Crimson’s arrival, ascendancy and transatlantic success – all in a period of just under a year - carried within it the seeds of the line-up’s implosion in December of 1969 when Ian McDonald and Michael Giles left the band. Taking up the option to record an album as a duo - with Michael’s brother Peter taking the role as bass guitarist – the eponymous album was recorded in the summer of 1970 and released in the UK in November of that year. It was and remains a minor classic of the late British Underground era – an album that could only come from that particular time and place and, very obviously, an album that was always intended as just that – a studio construct with no evidence that it was ever imagined as music that could or might be played on the 1970 gig circuit – (though some of the material would be performed more than thirty years later in 2002 by the 21st Century Schizoid Band).