When I first heard Crimso's Islands back in 1971 I was impressed with the material on it, but a tad disappointed. I felt that full justice had not entirely been done to the compositions, especially the lovely Formentera Lady. I loved the string bass from Harry Miller in the intro and wanted a lot more of it.
Fast forward almost fifty years and I get my wish - plus loads of Keith Tippett tickling the ivories, some tasteful violin from Wilf Gibson and oodles of flute from Mel Collins which is always a good thing. The instrumental edit of the piece is gorgeous in every way and makes you wonder what other astonishing stuff lies in the DGM vaults and why they didn't put this out originally.
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