This remastered glimpse into the Brondesbury Road sessions captures a formative moment in British progressive music-when Robert Fripp, Peter Giles and Michael Giles were sketching out the vocabulary that would soon define King Crimson. Recorded in 1968 using a single Revox tape machine, the material is raw but revealing: two early takes of ‘I Talk To The Wind’ feature Peter Giles and Judy Dyble on vocals respectively, both casting the song in a more folk-inflected light. ‘Suite No.1’ foreshadows ‘Prelude: Song Of The Gulls’, while ‘Why Don’t You Just Drop In’ seeds lyrical ideas later reworked into ‘The Letters’. ‘Passages of Time’ stands out for its bolero pulse and melodic motifs that would resurface on “In the Wake of Poseidon“.
The fidelity may waver, but the historical value is undeniable-this is the sound of a blueprint forming in real time.
The Fat Angel Sings 