King Crimson Lizard (2025 David Singleton Elemental Mixes) Vinyl LP 2025

Tracklist:

1. Cirkus (Including: Entry Of The Chameleons)
2. Indoor Games
3. Happy Family
4. Lady Of The Dancing Water
5. Lizard
6. Prince Rupert Awakes
7. Bolero - The Peacock's Tale
8. Dawn Song
9. Last Skirmish
10. Prince Rupert's Lament
11. Big Top

When Steven Wilson first mixed "Lizard" in stereo and 5.1 with Robert Fripp in 2009, he commented: “For me Lizard has always been an album that was too big for stereo to contain. I’ve always felt that if presented in the right way, I could make a case for this being the most experimental rock record ever made. It’s extraordinary what they’re doing on this album. In terms of fusing free-jazz with progressive rock for me there’s almost no parallel.”

Now, in 2025, Steven has returned to that album and the new mixes merely serve to confirm that analysis.

The 2009 mixes – released at the same time as the much better known "Red" and "In The Court Of The Crimson King", did much to focus fan attention on an album which was sometimes overlooked in the Crimson catalogue; "Red", "..Court..", "Larks’ Tongues in Aspic", "Discipline" – the various KC incarnations all seemed to have definitive albums which represented certain periods in the band’s ever-changing development but "Lizard" - a single album group with an expanded line-up which was never played live, a healthy infusion of jazz players and influences, a radical departure from the two previous Crim album releases and more musical ambition than many band’s entire careers - seemed almost forgotten.