Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets & Lies

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Secrets &  Lies - 2020

Secrets & Lies is the eighth solo album by English musician Jakko M. Jakszyk, released on 23 October 2020 by InsideOut Music.It is his first release since 2009's Waves Sweep the Sand. Showcasing his diversity and many of his influences, it features progressive rock pieces that originated from King Crimson writing sessions, intimate ballads, and excursions into world music.

01. Before I Met You

02. The Trouble With Angels (For Kimberly)

03. Fools Mandate

04. The Rotters Club is Closing Down (A song for Pip)

05. Uncertain Times

06. It Would All Make Sense

07. Secrets, Lies & Stolen Memories

08. Under Lock & Key

09. The Borders We Traded

10. Trading Borders Amber

11. Separation

Jakko Jakszyk - Vocala, Guitars, Keyboards

Robert Fripp - Guitar (8, 11), Frippertronics (8)

Mel Collins -  Saxophones (11)

Tony Levin - Bass (2, 8, 11)

Peter Hammill - Vocals, Guitar (3)

Mark King, John Giblin, Django Jakszyk - Bass

Gavin Harrison - Drums

Al Murray- Drums (4)

John Thirkell - Trumpet

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64 Spoons - Landing On A Rat Column

64 Spoons - Landing On A Rat Column - 1992

64 Spoons (also known as The Legendary 64 Spoons, or simply The Spoons) were a British pop and rock band during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Alhough the band never met with commercial success, they were the launch pad for Jakko Jakszyk and Lyndon Connah.

64 Spoons was formed by Lyndon Connah and Tam Neal, a pair of multi-instrumentalist friends who had been writing songs since the age of 10 (Tam having trained at the Royal Academy of Music). Their studies brought them into contact with Andy Crawford, a Royal College of Music flautist and classical guitar player with an interest in Early Music, but who also played bass guitar on the side. Coalescing around a line-up of Connah on drums, Crawford on bass and Neal on keyboards, 64 Spoons began playing concerts in and around their home base of Watford, Hertfordshire in 1976.

One of the band's early audience members was a teenage musician called Jakko Jakszyk (generally known as "Jakko"), who had been drawn to the band by "the ludicrous complexities of a fifteen-minute number called Life Is Unsaid". Despite his youth, Jakko had already fronted his own band - Soon After - which his self-confessed "dictatorial tendencies" had ultimately reduced the band to a lineup of "two screaming lead guitars and a trumpet", the latter played by former National Youth Jazz Orchestra musician Ted Emmett. Despite feeling that he was out of his musical depth, Jakko was soon installed as 64 Spoons’ lead singer, guitarist and frontman, using his "insecurities and arrogance" to spur the band on. With Jakko now also contributing to the songwriting, the expanded 64 Spoons line-up produced a whole set's worth of new material. Despite this, Jakko abruptly quit 64 Spoons after the first concert with the new line-up, having chosen to join Warren Harry’s punk/pop band (which had the advantage of already having a recording deal with Bronze Records). Before leaving, Jakko recommended Ted Emmett as his replacement.

However, Jakko’s tenure with Warren Harry was short-lived and musically unsatisfying (he had done it mostly for the money) and by 1977, he had rejoined 64 Spoons. Retaining Emmett (on trumpet and backing vocals) and continuing as a five-piece, the band spent the next three years touring and playing around the United Kingdom in small venues, building up a reputation as an interesting cult act. With punk rock now in fashion, 64 Spoons had to work hard to "justify" their progressive-rock-styled virtuosity. Jakko would later recall that the band had "somehow survived for a number of years by working our arses off and attempting to make our musical vision more palatable. We did this by making the whole thing theatrical. Ridiculous set pieces that involved various band members dressing up, coupled with an almost Dada-esque approach to audience participation."

Live gigs were animated affairs, with the band employing any entertainment tricks they could to keep the gig going. Neal and Connah frequently swapped roles between keyboard playing and drumming. Pete Goddard of Facelift magazine remembers a show at the Palace Theatre in Watford as "one of the finest and most ludicrous shows I've ever seen", with the band making full use of the theatrical facilities, up to and including flying themselves around on stage hoists. Thanks in part to Jakko’s incessant promotion, the band attracted numerous fans both in and out of the industry (including several of the band’s own heroes such as Bill Bruford and Dave Stewart). However, this did not translate into success. According to Jakko, the band had "management, an agency; record company interest and we worked all the time. It just didn't go that one step further. Some kind of bad luck always seemed to befall us, just when we looked like getting our big break."

By 1980, 64 Spoons was nearing the end of its life, plagued by insecurity, internal bickering and feeling ever more at odds with British musical fashion and critical taste. The band went through several developments involving changes of presentation (via "a series of haircuts that would frighten a gibbon") and a change of name (shortened to The Spoons). There was also a change of line-up: Jakko recalls that "in another inspired piece of career based decision making, we… sacked Ted (Emmett). We felt that the trumpet was a stupid, outmoded and ultimately unfashionable instrument to have in a pop group. Ted joined The Teardrop Explodes." This was a cruel irony, as The Teardrop Explodes were, at the time, enjoying the very success which the newly rechristened Spoons were aiming for.

None of these efforts made any difference. Following a particularly disastrous gig outing to Oldham and Carlisle in May 1980, the band played a couple of final gigs and then folded for good. Jakko subsequently commented "They say that success is largely down to timing. Well, we timed it perfectly. We were the wrong band at the wrong time."

A one-off 64 Spoons live reunion was planned in the mid-1990s but never happened. However, various 64 Spoons members still keep in touch and work together. Jakko and Lyndon Connah, in particular, are frequent collaborators (predominantly on Jakko’s projects).  

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01. It's All Overture
02. Aggressive Travelling
03. Fat Chance
04. Ich Bin Heidi
05. Nib
06. Tails In The Sky
07. Ivory Ball
08. Plonder On
09. Weird Granny
10. It's Only A Party
11. Dear Clare
12. Lens
13. Five Miles
14. Julius Caesar
15. This Old Man (Live)
16. Do's & Don'ts Of Path Laying
17. Landing On A Rat Column (Live)




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Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses (Re-Re-Post)

Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses - 1994

By Brian Steffensen, progarchives.com

It is great to have Jakko on the Archive at last. This is a wonderful Prog related album with Canterbury Scene influences. I say this because some of the tracks are clearly more pop rlated, but definitely with heay progressive rock influences. This music is very much in the Gaskin and Stewart / Caravan category of Prog Rock. There are some incredible instrumentals here. Just listen to "Devil's Dictionary" and you'll realise that this some of the best melodic jazz fusion meets Canterbury prog rock around. "when We Go Home" is another classic with well constructed melody and rhythm patterns with meaningful lyrics. Some of the other tracks do not come to standard of the two tracks, but are still very enjoyable to anyone appreciates good rock music.  

01. Just Another Day        
      Backing Vocals - Sam Brown
      Piano - Lyndon Connah
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

02. Little Town        
      Bass [Fretless] - Andy Crawford
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Programmed By - Jakko

03. The Devil's Dictionary        
      Bass [Fretless], Bass [Tapped] - Ed Poole
      Drums, Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

04. Damn This Town        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Drums - Gavin Harrison
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

05. The Borders We Traded        
      Vocals, Programmed By - Jakko

06. The Perfect Kiss        
      Drums, Bass - Gavin Harrison
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

07. Saddleworth Moor

      Keyboards, Flute - Jakko
      Synthesizer, Other [Additional Atmospherics] - Richard Barbieri

08. Learning To Cry        
      Bass [Fretless] - Ed Poole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

09. A Handful Of Pearls        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Steel Guitar [Pedal] - B.J. Cole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

10. Then And Now        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

11. Mustard Gas And Roses        
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

12. We'll Change The World        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko


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Tom Robinson & Jakko Jakszyk - We Never Had It So Good - 1990

Tom Robinson & Jakko Jakszyk - We Never Had It So Good - 1990 - (1997 Reissue)

Critically-acclaimed collaboration with Dizrhthmia's Jakko Jakszyk featuring his virtuoso guitar work plus drum guru Gavin Harrison behind the kit. On the strength of this album Jakko went on to play guitar for Level 42. This 1997 reissue includes 'Rigging It Up Duncannon' - an outtake from the original album - plus brand new versions of 'Jonestown' and 'The War Is Over', first featured on Castway Club CD Vol 2.

01. We Never Had It So Good
02. Driving Through The Desert

03. Blood Brother
04. What Have I Ever Done To You?
05. The Baby Rages On
06. Tomboy
07. Kiss And Roll Over
08. Hard Cases
09. Can't Stop: Peter's Theme
10. My Own Sweet Way



 
Bonus Tracks (reissued/renamed as Blood Brother 1997)   
11. Rigging It Up, Duncannon
12. For You The War Is Over
13. Jonestown
14. Happy In The Homelands








Tom Robinson - Vocals
Jakko Jakszyk - Guitar, Keys, Backing Vocals
Gavin Harrison - Drums
Colin Baldry - Bass

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21ST Century Schizoid Band - Live in West Hollywood

21ST Century Schizoid Band - Live in West Hollywood - 2004

21st Century Schizoid Band were a King Crimson alumnus group formed in 2002. The name derives from the famous song "21st Century Schizoid Man" from the first King Crimson album, In the Court of the Crimson King. The initial band featured Mel Collins on saxophones, flute and keyboards, Michael Giles on drums, Peter Giles on bass, Ian McDonald on alto saxophone, flute and keyboards, and Jakko Jakszyk on guitar and vocals. All but Jakszyk had previously been members of King Crimson in its early years. Ian Wallace, another former Crimson member from that same period, replaced Mike Giles in early 2003 after the band's Japanese tour. Further international touring followed in 2003/04.

The band played live with sets concentrating on compositions from King Crimson's first four albums and other works from the band members' back catalogues, including McDonald and Giles. They have released four albums, mostly of live work but including newer and/or recent compositions, such as Ian McDonald's "Let There Be Light" (from his solo album Driver's Eyes) and "Catley's Ashes," a Jakszyk instrumental which later appeared on his solo album The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (2006).

The band has been inactive since 2004; with members based in different countries, touring proved to be logistically and financially difficult. The possibility of performing again in 2005 was considered following offers from festivals, possibly with Guy Evans (of Van der Graaf Generator) on drums to replace Wallace who had other commitments, but the idea was abandoned. Wallace's death in February 2007 would seem to have closed the lid on the band for good.

Jakszyk and Collins went on to record as a trio with founding Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp (and with rhythmic support from fellow members Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison) on the Scarcity of Miracles album in 2011. This was followed in 2013 by the announcement of a new King Crimson formation including all five, plus two additional members.

   
01.A Man, a City
02.Cat Food 
03.Let there be Light
04.Cirkus
05.Cadence and Cascade
06.The Court of the Crimson King
07.Ladies of the Road
08.Catley's Ashes
09.Formentera Lady
10.Sailor's Tale
11.I Talk to the Wind / Band Introduction
12.Epitaph
13.21st Century Schizoid Man
14.Starless

Ian McDonald - Alto Sax, Flute, Keys, Vocal and Percussion
Peter Giles - Bass And Vocal
Mel Collins - Baritone, Tenor and Alto Sax, Flute, Keys and Vocal
Ian Wallace - Drums and Vocal
Jakko Jakszyk - Vocal, Guitar, Flute and Keys




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Jakko M. Jakszyk - Silesia

Jakko Jakszyk - Silesia - 1982

from wikipedia

Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk is an English musician. multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter and record producer, he is the current lead singer and second guitarist in King Crimson and also pursues a solo career. He is generally referred to as "Jakko" by both colleagues and fans, and most of his releases have been credited to this shorter name (while others have been credited to "Jakko M. Jakszyk").

As a solo artist, Jakko has released six albums. Prior to joining King Crimson in 2013, he had fronted multiple bands and projects over the course of three-and-a-half decades (including 64 Spoons, Dizrhythmia, 21st Century Schizoid Band, Jakszyk Fripp Collins and Rapid Eye Movement) and had also been a member of Level 42, The Lodge, The Tangent and Warren Harry. He has collaborated with a wide variety of musicians (including Tom Robinson, Peter Blegvad, Danny Thompson, Gavin Harrison Pandit Dinesh, and Dave Stewart) as well as following an extensive and well-respected career as a session musician and soundtrack producer.

01. I'll Stand On My Own    
02. Grab What You Can (Biez Co Mozesz)    
03. Something In The Mirror    
04. If It Should Be Today    
05. Straining Our Eyes    
06. One More Time    
07. This Is Me    
08. Mills And Boone    
09. Tell Me Where To Run To    
10. Silesia    
11. Ingmar Bergman On The Windowsill    

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Piano, Marimba, Keyboards, Balalaika, Mellotron
Dave Stewart - Synthesizer
Ed Poole (2, 3) - Bass
John Clarke (5) - Drums, Percussion
Amanda Parsons (11), Barbara Gaskin (2) - Backing Vocal
Chris Baker (6) - Handclaps
Dave Jackson - Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
Annie Whitehead - Trombone
Ted Emmett - Trumpet (1, 5, 6, 9)

NB: Silesia is original from 1982 and was deleted prior to release. In 90's briefly available  as reissue.

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Jakko M. Jakszyk - Kingdom of Dust (repost)

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Kingdom of Dust - 1994

from http://calyx.perso.neuf.fr

Through his collaborations with the likes of Dave Stewart, Peter Blegvad, John Greaves and Pip Pyle, Jakko M. Jakszyk has become an honorary member of the Canterbury 'family', although he has led a fruitful solo career and earned fame as Level 42's guitarist between 1991 and the band's split in 1994.

In his teenage years, while at school in Watford, Jakszyk's favourite bands were Henry Cow and Hatfield and the North. A big fan of Dave Stewart in particular, he sent him tapes of his band 64 Spoons, which resulted in Stewart coming down to a few gigs, sometimes in the company of Bill Bruford, whom he he was working with at the time. 64 Spoons folded at the turn of the decade, leaving an unreleased album, which finally saw the light of day in 1992 as Landing On A Rat Column on the Freshly Cut label, thanks to the effort of enthusiast Richard Armstrong, who sadly died shortly before the project came to fruition.

Jakszyk's friendship with Stewart resulted in him singing on the original demo for "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?". He eventually sang backup on the final version with Colin Blunstone on lead vocals. Meanwhile, he was a founding member, as guitarist and lead vocalist, of Rapid Eye Movement, a band formed by Stewart after the Bruford group had split up, also including Pip Pyle and Rick Biddulph. This obscure outfit (which left no recorded legacy) toured Europe irregularly for about a year (1980-81). "It was a lot rougher than National Health", Jakszyk remembers, "very structured but performed in a very anarchic way". When "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?" became a hit in England, it was included in the setlist. "Rapid Eye Movement did record some stuff in the studio. There are also a number of reasonably good live tapes and I have recently talked to Dave about releasing something".

READ MORE HERE

Jakko M.Jakszyk's Kingdom Of Dust represented an accessible and melodic fusion of Pop sensibilities and Art Rock ambition that found Jakko working alongside the ever-inventive trio of Jansen, Barbieri and Karn (ex-Japan/Rain Tree Crow)

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Guitars, Vocals
Richard Barbieri - Keyboards, Synthesizers
Mick Karn - Bass
Steve Jansen - Drums, Percussion

1. The Hands of Che Guevara
2. Drowning in My Sleep
3. It's Only the Moon
4. The Judas Kiss

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Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses (repost)

Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses - 1994

By Brian Steffensen, progarchives.com

 

It is great to have Jakko on the Archive at last. This is a wonderful Prog related album with Canterbury Scene influences. I say this because some of the tracks are clearly more pop rlated, but definitely with heay progressive rock influences. This music is very much in the Gaskin and Stewart / Caravan category of Prog Rock. There are some incredible instrumentals here. Just listen to "Devil's Dictionary" and you'll realise that this some of the best melodic jazz fusion meets Canterbury prog rock around. "when We Go Home" is another classic with well constructed melody and rhythm patterns with meaningful lyrics. Some of the other tracks do not come to standard of the two tracks, but are still very enjoyable to anyone appreciates good rock music.  

01. Just Another Day        
      Backing Vocals - Sam Brown
      Piano - Lyndon Connah
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

02. Little Town        
      Bass [Fretless] - Andy Crawford
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Programmed By - Jakko

03. The Devil's Dictionary        
      Bass [Fretless], Bass [Tapped] - Ed Poole
      Drums, Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

04. Damn This Town        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Drums - Gavin Harrison
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

05. The Borders We Traded        
      Vocals, Programmed By - Jakko

06. The Perfect Kiss        
      Drums, Bass - Gavin Harrison
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

07. Saddleworth Moor

      Keyboards, Flute - Jakko
      Synthesizer, Other [Additional Atmospherics] - Richard Barbieri

08. Learning To Cry        
      Bass [Fretless] - Ed Poole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

09. A Handful Of Pearls        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Steel Guitar [Pedal] - B.J. Cole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

10. Then And Now        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

11. Mustard Gas And Roses        
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

12. We'll Change The World        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko


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Jakko Jakszyk - Waves Sweep The Sand (repost)

Jakko Jakszyk - Waves Sweep The Sand - 2009

By Kohn Kelman from allboutjazz.com

It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp's guitar parts, but lead vocals as well. Jakszyk emerged as a confident and compelling leader on The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (Iceni, 2006), a double-disc set filled with autobiographical confessions of a progressive bent, and imaginative tributes to seminal groups from Jakszyk's formative years.

With Bruised now back in print with a remixed title track, the independently released Waves Sweep the Sand collects fifteen original songs and two covers, with Jakszyk's liners positioning the material against Bruised. Familiarity with Bruised may be an advantage, but it's absolutely unnecessary in order to enjoy Waves which, with Jakszyk's careful sequencing, remains a compelling and independent piece of work.

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01. Scarecrows
02. Alien Lights in Iberian Skies
03. Catleys Reprise
04. London Bridge

05. David Gates in Whitley Bay
06. Suburban Windows
07. Christmas in Krakow
08. Waves Sweep the Sand
09. Upside Down Again
10. Barnaby Naan
11. Sunday Morning Enniscrone
12. September Skies
13. Django’s Lullaby
14. Fragile Little Scars
15. Kevin Costners Golf Course
16. Theme One
17. Slug Death and The Cockroaches Revenge

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Vocals, All instruments
Ian Wallace - Drums (15)
Gavin Harrison - Drums (7), Drum loops (16)
Gary Barnacle - Saxophones (16)


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Jakko Jakszyk - Waves Sweep The Sand

Jakko Jakszyk - Waves Sweep The Sand - 2009

By Kohn Kelman from allboutjazz.com

It's rare that an album of outtakes and rejected music not only succeeds, but actually hangs together as a cohesive work in its own right. As the only member of 21st Century Schizoid Band (performing late-1960s/early-1970s-era Crimson repertoire) who wasn't a King Crimson alum, Jakko M. Jakszyk not only handled the daunting challenge of Crimson co-founder Robert Fripp's guitar parts, but lead vocals as well. Jakszyk emerged as a confident and compelling leader on The Bruised Romantic Glee Club (Iceni, 2006), a double-disc set filled with autobiographical confessions of a progressive bent, and imaginative tributes to seminal groups from Jakszyk's formative years.

With Bruised now back in print with a remixed title track, the independently released Waves Sweep the Sand collects fifteen original songs and two covers, with Jakszyk's liners positioning the material against Bruised. Familiarity with Bruised may be an advantage, but it's absolutely unnecessary in order to enjoy Waves which, with Jakszyk's careful sequencing, remains a compelling and independent piece of work.

READ MORE HERE

01. Scarecrows
02. Alien Lights in Iberian Skies
03. Catleys Reprise
04. London Bridge

05. David Gates in Whitley Bay
06. Suburban Windows
07. Christmas in Krakow
08. Waves Sweep the Sand
09. Upside Down Again
10. Barnaby Naan
11. Sunday Morning Enniscrone
12. September Skies
13. Django’s Lullaby
14. Fragile Little Scars
15. Kevin Costners Golf Course
16. Theme One
17. Slug Death and The Cockroaches Revenge

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Vocals, All instruments
Ian Wallace - Drums (15)
Gavin Harrison - Drums (7), Drum loops (16)
Gary Barnacle - Saxophones (16)


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Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses

Jakko Jakszyk - Mustard Gas And Roses - 1994

By Brian Steffensen, progarchives.com

 

It is great to have Jakko on the Archive at last. This is a wonderful Prog related album with Canterbury Scene influences. I say this because some of the tracks are clearly more pop rlated, but definitely with heay progressive rock influences. This music is very much in the Gaskin and Stewart / Caravan category of Prog Rock. There are some incredible instrumentals here. Just listen to "Devil's Dictionary" and you'll realise that this some of the best melodic jazz fusion meets Canterbury prog rock around. "when We Go Home" is another classic with well constructed melody and rhythm patterns with meaningful lyrics. Some of the other tracks do not come to standard of the two tracks, but are still very enjoyable to anyone appreciates good rock music.  

01. Just Another Day        
      Backing Vocals - Sam Brown
      Piano - Lyndon Connah
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

02. Little Town        
      Bass [Fretless] - Andy Crawford
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Programmed By - Jakko

03. The Devil's Dictionary        
      Bass [Fretless], Bass [Tapped] - Ed Poole
      Drums, Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

04. Damn This Town        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Drums - Gavin Harrison
      Synthesizer - Richard Barbieri
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

05. The Borders We Traded        
      Vocals, Programmed By - Jakko

06. The Perfect Kiss        
      Drums, Bass - Gavin Harrison
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

07. Saddleworth Moor

      Keyboards, Flute - Jakko
      Synthesizer, Other [Additional Atmospherics] - Richard Barbieri

08. Learning To Cry        
      Bass [Fretless] - Ed Poole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

09. A Handful Of Pearls        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Percussion - Gavin Harrison
      Steel Guitar [Pedal] - B.J. Cole
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

10. Then And Now        
      Double Bass - Danny Thompson
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

11. Mustard Gas And Roses        
      Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko

12. We'll Change The World        
      Bass [Fretless] - Mick Karn
      Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Programmed By - Jakko


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Jakko M. Jakszyk - Kingdom of Dust

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Kingdom of Dust - 1994

from http://calyx.perso.neuf.fr

Through his collaborations with the likes of Dave Stewart, Peter Blegvad, John Greaves and Pip Pyle, Jakko M. Jakszyk has become an honorary member of the Canterbury 'family', although he has led a fruitful solo career and earned fame as Level 42's guitarist between 1991 and the band's split in 1994.

In his teenage years, while at school in Watford, Jakszyk's favourite bands were Henry Cow and Hatfield and the North. A big fan of Dave Stewart in particular, he sent him tapes of his band 64 Spoons, which resulted in Stewart coming down to a few gigs, sometimes in the company of Bill Bruford, whom he he was working with at the time. 64 Spoons folded at the turn of the decade, leaving an unreleased album, which finally saw the light of day in 1992 as Landing On A Rat Column on the Freshly Cut label, thanks to the effort of enthusiast Richard Armstrong, who sadly died shortly before the project came to fruition.

Jakszyk's friendship with Stewart resulted in him singing on the original demo for "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?". He eventually sang backup on the final version with Colin Blunstone on lead vocals. Meanwhile, he was a founding member, as guitarist and lead vocalist, of Rapid Eye Movement, a band formed by Stewart after the Bruford group had split up, also including Pip Pyle and Rick Biddulph. This obscure outfit (which left no recorded legacy) toured Europe irregularly for about a year (1980-81). "It was a lot rougher than National Health", Jakszyk remembers, "very structured but performed in a very anarchic way". When "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?" became a hit in England, it was included in the setlist. "Rapid Eye Movement did record some stuff in the studio. There are also a number of reasonably good live tapes and I have recently talked to Dave about releasing something".

READ MORE HERE

Jakko M.Jakszyk's Kingdom Of Dust represented an accessible and melodic fusion of Pop sensibilities and Art Rock ambition that found Jakko working alongside the ever-inventive trio of Jansen, Barbieri and Karn (ex-Japan/Rain Tree Crow)

Jakko M. Jakszyk - Guitars, Vocals
Richard Barbieri - Keyboards, Synthesizers
Mick Karn - Bass
Steve Jansen - Drums, Percussion

1. The Hands of Che Guevara
2. Drowning in My Sleep
3. It's Only the Moon
4. The Judas Kiss

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