Mcdonald & Giles - Mcdonald & Giles - Audio CD (Arrives in 20 days)

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, eventually, be performed by the 21st Century Schizoid Band in 2002).

Tracklist

1. Suite In C
2. Flight of the Ibis
3. Is She Waiting?
4. Tomorrow's People
5. The Children of Today
6. Birdman
7. The Inventor's Dream
8. The Workshop
9. Wishbone Ascension
10. Birdman Files
11. Wings In the Sunset
12. Birdman-the Reflection

Label: Panegyric | Origin: Import

📌 1970 Album From 'King Crimson' Members