McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles (1970) (HDCD) (eac-flac-log)

McDonald & Giles - McDonald & Giles (1970)
rock | 1cd | eac-flac-cue-log-cover | 330MB
Virgin | HDCD | 2002 remaster | rar +5% recovery

McDonald and Giles is an album of music released by British musicians Ian McDonald and Michael Giles in 1971.
Ian McDonald and Michael Giles were members of the original King Crimson lineup, and were featured performers on the band's debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King (1969). Both left the group at the end of its first North American tour in 1969, although Giles appeared on the second King Crimson album, In the Wake of Poseidon (1970), as a session musician. Two other King Crimson members also worked on the album: Peter Giles and Peter Sinfield.
The music on McDonald and Giles contains many of the pastoral and musically complex elements of King Crimson, while generally avoiding that band's darker tendencies. The song "Flight of the Ibis" has a similar melody and rhythm to King Crimson's "Cadence and Cascade", with different lyrics. The album is also notable in that it contains a guest appearance by Steve Winwood, playing organ and piano on "Turnham Green." Winwood's group Traffic were also working on John Barleycorn Must Die at Island Studios at the same time.
Michael Giles' drum solo in "Tomorrow's People - The Children of Today" has been sampled by a number of rap and hip-hop artists.

Track list:
01 - Suite in C
02 - Flight of the Ibis
03 - Is She Waiting.flac
04 - Tomorrow's People - The Children of Today
05 - The Inventor's Dream
06 - The Workshop
07 - Wishbone Ascension
08 - Birdman Flies
09 - Wings in the Sunset
10 - Birdman - The Relection

Personnel
* Ian McDonald: guitar, piano, organ, saxes, flute, clarinet, zither, vocals and sundries
* Michael Giles: drums, percussion (including milk bottle, handsaw, lip whistle and nutbox), vocals
* Peter Giles: bass guitar
* Steve Winwood: organ, and piano solo on "Turnham Green"
* Michael Blakesley: trombone on "Tomorrow's People"

 sample & buy

rc