McDonald and Giles is an album of music released by
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. The music on McDonald and Giles contains many of the pastoral and musically complex elements of King Crimson, while generally av…
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