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Jakko M. Jakszyk – Son of Glen (2025)
Review:
Jakko M. Jakszyk, most recently known as the vocalist & guitarist in legendary progressive rockers King Crimson, returns with his brand new solo album Son of Glen. The record is a companion piece of sorts to his acclaimed memoir Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?, that was released in October 2024, and explores many of the themes and the subjects that the book touches upon. Jakko comments: “A romantic fantasy narrative based on what I discovered about my real father after decades of fruitless searching for him. Glen Tripp was a US airman based in the UK who fell for a dark-haired Irish singer. And here I was many, many years later repeating what he had done by falling for another. What if he had been watching me and guiding me from ‘afar’?”
Jakko’s remarkable songcraft is evident on Son Of Glen, as his elegiac lyric muses on our fixation with nostalgia and the human condition, and yet where great songwriting, pathos and poetry would be enough to satiate most listeners, let us not forget that Jakko is (somewhat enviably) also a phenomenal guitarist, exceptional singer and multi-instrumentalist, whose precision production and skill for crafting glorious spatial soundscapes takes his arsenal of talents and skills, to a place where it’s more than justified to say, there is no one else quite like Jakko, doing everything that he does, with the proficiency he does it. — bandcamp
Track List:
01. Ode to Ballina
02. Somewhere Between Then and Now
03. How Did I Let You Get So Old
04. This Kiss Never Lies
05. Ode to Ballina (Reprise)
06. I Told You So
07. (Get A) Proper Job
08. Son of Glen
Media Report:
Genre: prog-rock
Origin: London, UK 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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