McDonald And Giles (Colored)

Reissue of the charming cult classic McDonald And Giles (1970) by the ex-King Crimson pairing of Ian McDonald and Michael Giles. 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.