Hopes for a King Crimson album are “premature”, manager warns
After King Crimson singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk announced a new studio album during a recent interview, the band’s manager has stepped in and refuted the claim.
The band’s manager, David Singleton, released a statement addressing the news, which sparked huge engagement from King Crimson fans online who largely believed the band had ceased making music in 2021.
The statement began: “Addressing the idea of some form of studio recording by the last incarnation of King Crimson, Bill Rieflin posed the excellent question, ‘Why make a studio album? There are excellent live recordings of all the songs out there already.”
He continued, “One possible answer would be an album the very sound of which no-one has ever heard before. A sound driven by the three drummers. And those drummers have now recorded studio versions of their parts – separately, so that there is perfect separation.”
Singleton then revealed that the project that Jakszyk revealed might never see the light of day. He wrote, “So there is the seed of a new recording. Whether it is an album, whether it sees the light of day, whether it is something else is unknown. As is the outcome of any creative process.”
He ended with the admission “So yes, recordings have taken place,” before warning, “Getting excited about the possibility of a new album, as has apparently been happening, is somewhat premature. Carts before horses.”
Along with his original comments, Jakszyk explained that they had been recording together “piecemeal, and then a couple of months ago, the management said, ‘Can we?’ So, yeah. I’ve been recording that with a view to it coming out in some format at some point. But who knows when?”
King Crimson’s last studio album The Power To Believe, was released in 2003, and they last took to the road with all the current members in 2021.
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