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Sundara Karma: Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect

On January 6, 2017, “Chess Club Records” label released “Youth Is Only Ever Fun in Retrospect”, the debut Sundara Karma studio album. It was recorded in 2017, and was produced by Larry Hibbit.

Personnel:

  • Oscar Pollock – vocals
  • Ally Baty – guitar
  • Dom Cordell – bass
  • Haydn Evans – drums
  • Nick Watson – mastering
  • Lucas Donald – artwork, design
  • Emma Viola Lilja, Jasmine Igoe, Phil Smithies – photography

Track listing:

  1. A Young Understanding
  2. Loveblood
  3. Olympia
  4. Happy Family
  5. Flame
  6. Lose the Feeling
  7. She Said
  8. Vivienne
  9. Be Nobody
  10. Deep Relief
  11. Watching from Great Heights
  12. The Night

King Crimson: Lizard

Lizard

On December 10, 1970, “Island” label released “Lizard”, the third King Crimson studio album.  It was recorded August – September 1970, at the “Wessex Sound Studios” in London, and was produced by Robert Fripp and Peter Sinfield.

Personnel:

  • Robert Fripp – guitar, mellotron, synthesizer, organ, devices
  • Mel Collins– saxophone, flute
  • Gordon Haskell– vocals, bass guitar
  • Andy McCulloch– drums
  • Keith Tippett– acoustic and electric pianos
  • Robin Miller – oboe, cor anglais
  • Mark Charig– cornet
  • Nick Evans– trombone
  • Jon Anderson– vocals
  • Tony Levin- bass guitar
  • Peter Sinfield – pictures, sleeve conception
  • Gini Barris – outside painting
  • Koraz Wallpapers – inside marbling
  • C.S. – typography

Track listing:

All lyrics by Peter Sinfield, all music by Robert Fripp.

  1. Cirkus (including Entry of the Chameleons)
  2. Indoor Games
  3. Happy Family
  4. Lady of the Dancing Water
  5. Lizard
  • Prince Rupert Awakes
  • Bolero – The Peacock’s Tale
  • The Battle of Glass Tears
  • Dawn Song
  • Last Skirmish
  • Prince Rupert’s Lament
  • Big Top