Calling Michael Giles an assuming legend would doing a disservice to one of the greatest rock drummers. Mostly known for his playing on two first platters by KING CRIMSON – "In The Court Of The Crimson King" and "In The Wake Of Poseidon" – and then recording a self-titled album with his former colleague Ian McDonald, he might not have a stellar career after that, but Giles’s subsequent appearances, which included such works as Greg Lake‘s eponymous LP and "Wise After The Event" by Anthony Phillips as well as Leo Sayers’s debut and Roger Glover’s “The Butterfly Ball”, were always notable. Michael hasn’t really cut a personal path under his own name, the only longplay credited to the veteran being “Progress” – laid down in 1978 yet released in 2002 – until now.
April 3rd will see the issue of a double-disc set “Shadows / Solo” that includes pieces from various periods of Giles’s creative life – divided in two parts to form two faux-concept flows which, in Michael’s own words, feel deeply personal. It also provides snippets of his next archival albums, with his fellow percussion masters, both sadly departed, Morris Pert and Jamie Muir.
Shadows / Solo
CD 1 – Shadows:
1. Shadows
2. Eleven
3. Picnic Walk
4. Shadows 2
5. Cazerella
6. Fine Tuning
7. Tubbys Kitchen
8. Ah Well
CD 2 – Solo:
1. Fast Forward
2. Talking Heads
3. Beyond Limits
4. Less Is More
5. Beating About The Bush
6. Heavy Lifting
7. Into The Unknown
8. Brush Strokes
9. Noises Off
10. Willy Nilly
11. Petrol Head
12. Juxtaposition
13. Felicitous Fecundity
14. The Track Less Travelled
15. Out There
16. Full Frequency
17. Timeless
18. Loose Precision
