King Crimson guitarist and singer Jakko Jakszyk has revealed that the band are presently engaged on a brand new album, their first since 2003’s The Energy to Consider.
Talking with Goldmine, Jakszyk is requested about becoming a member of King Crimson in 2013, a decade after he’d based the twenty first Century Schizoid Band to carry out Crimson songs alongside band alumni Ian McDonald, Mel Collins, Peter Giles and Michael Giles.
“It was a tremendous factor to have accomplished, and in a method, a part of it is nonetheless occurring,” says Jakszyk. “As we converse, we’re doing a King Crimson studio album.
“When that can come out and what format or how – that is past my transient. However yeah, we have been doing it piecemeal, after which a few months in the past, the administration stated, ‘Can we?’ So, yeah. I have been recording that with a view to it popping out in some format sooner or later. However who is aware of when?”
He goes on to substantiate that the lineup of musicians on the album would be the identical as that which accomplished King Crimson’s last tour in 2021, particularly Jakszyk, band chief and guitarist Robert Fripp, bassist Tony Levin, saxophonist Mel Collins and drummers Pat Mastelotto, Gavin Harrison and Jeremy Stacey.
Jakszyk additionally confirms that his 2011 solo album A Shortage of Miracles – which featured Fripp, Levin, Collins and Harrison and has been unavailable for a while – is to be reissued.
“There is a model of it that is about to come back out with masses and a great deal of additional stuff,” he says. “Due to the character of how we made that file, there’s a number of improvisation and significantly alternate variations of issues that we did not launch.”
Jakko Jakszyk’s new solo album, Son of Glen, is out now.