Jakko M. Jakszyk, perhaps most recently known as lead singer and second guitarist in King Crimson, recently announced his new solo album ‘Son Of Glen’ – set for release on the 27th June 2025. 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.
Today he launches a video for the previously released title track, the 10-minute long ‘Son of Glen’. Watch it now here: https://youtu.be/potSz6-zyIU
Jakko comments: “I finally discovered who my father was after decades of fruitless searching.
This was only 3 years ago. Turns out he was a US airman stationed in England in the 50’s who went back to the States and that he died when I would have been 14.
‘Son Of Glen’ is a fantasy based around the idea that my father, a man I never knew, was somehow guiding me from a far. The video attempts to tell the tale, and bring my father back to life”
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.
‘Son Of Glen’ will be available as a Limited CD Digipak, Gatefold LP & as Digital Album. The full tracklist is below:
1 – Ode To Ballina 02:11
- 2 – Somewhere Between Then And Now 07:413 – How Did I Let You Get So Old? 05:584 – This Kiss Never Lies 07:065 – Ode To Ballina (Reprise) 02:116 – I Told You So 05:417 – (Get A) Proper Job 01:378 – Son Of Glen 10:18
Listen & pre-order now here: https://jakkomjakszyk.lnk.to/SonOfGlen-Album
Despite being seemingly the last person to recognise this: Jakko stands in a league of his own.
This in itself, we can muse upon, could well be the manifestation of an unwanted child who felt they had everything to prove. A core theme of his book, a theme many people themselves can relate to in some capacity.
Whether emotional hardship has driven Jakko to the place where ‘Son Of Glen’ has culminated, or simply a need to reach out to the spectre of his late Father, it gives credence to the romantic notion that one’s best art is produced from periods of struggle. ‘Son Of Glen’ is undeniably Jakko M. Jakszyk’s triumph, which succinctly showcases an extraordinary life and career of an unparalleled musician, producer and songwriter.
The album also features appearances by drummer’s Gavin Harrison (King Crimson/Porcupine Tree) and Ian Mosley (Marillion), cellist Caroline Lavelle, Louise Patricia Crane on vocals and Jakko’s son Django on bass guitar.
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