| McDonald and Giles | |
|---|---|
| Studio album by | |
| Released | 3 January 1971 |
| Recorded | May–July 1970 at Island Studios |
| Genre | Progressive rock |
| Length | 45:23 (2002 edition) |
| Label | Island, Cotillion Records, Virgin Records, (2002 CD re-issue) |
| Producer | Ian McDonald, Michael Giles |
McDonald and Giles is an album of music released by British musicians Ian McDonald and Michael Giles in 1971. The album was first issued on Island Records (ILPS 9126) in the UK and in the US as Cotillion Records (SD 9042), a division of Atlantic Records. The album was recorded at Island Studios between May and July 1970. Although McDonald and Giles remains popular among King Crimson fans,[citation needed] its commercial success was limited. The duo did not record a second album.
View credits, reviews, track listings and more about the 1989 Japan CD release of McDonald And Giles by McDonald And Giles*. The only album from McDonald And Giles is contrastingly different to much of what one experienced on In The Court Of The Crimson King, though nevertheless the album remains an important and sadly neglected album from the days of early progressive rock. Titled simply McDonald and Giles, the album continued where their work in King Crimson left off and featured a guest appearance by Steve Winwood; McDonald and Giles nevertheless went their separate ways soon after, with the former going on to co-found Foreigner. McDonald And Giles sounds like the name of a high-level law firm, but it actually was the evanescent project of multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald and drummer Michael Giles, who played on King Crimson’s groundbreaking 1969 LP, In The Court Of The Crimson King. McDonald and Giles is an album of music released by British musicians Ian McDonald and Michael Giles in 1971. The album was first issued on Island Records (ILPS 9126) in the UK and in the US as Cotillion Records (SD 9042), a division of Atlantic Records. The album was recorded at Island Studios between May and July 1970.
Ian McDonald and Michael Giles were members of the original King Crimson line-up, 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 United States 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 McDonald and Giles: 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 contains a guest appearance by Steve Winwood, playing organ and piano on 'Turnham Green'. Winwood's group Traffic were 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, most notably the Beastie Boys, on the track 'Body Movin' from the album Hello Nasty.[citation needed]
The first CD edition was released in Japan in the early 1990s. It came in both jewel box and paper sleeve versions. This version was the same as the original vinyl but was mastered from a tape copy several generations removed from the original master. In 2002 the group members authorised a revised version of the CD with improved sound. The revised version can be recognised by the use of green lettering on the cover instead of pink. A phrase near the beginning of 'Suite in C' has slightly different lyrics. Some of the tracks of the 2002 edition have very minor editing. There are a few slightly different segues in the song 'Birdman' and the sections of this song are marked as separate tracks on the CD.
From the liner notes:
The lyrics for 'Birdman' begin 'Long ago / In Walthamstow'. Walthamstow Marshes was the location of Alliot Verdon Roe's attempts to build and fly his early aeroplanes. (A.V. Roe was the first British aviator and founder of Avro Aircraft Company).
The parenthetical acronym in the title of 'The Inventor's Dream (O.U.A.T.)' stands for 'Once Upon a Time.'
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