A Scarcity of Miracles | |
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Studio album by | |
Released | May 30, 2011 |
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Length | 42:22 |
Label | Discipline Global Mobile |
Producer | Robert Fripp, Jakko Jakszyk |
Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
All About Jazz | positive[1] |
PopMatters | positive[2] |
A Scarcity of Miracles is the lone album by Jakszyk, Fripp and Collins, released in 2011. It united singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk with three musicians best known from King Crimson, guitarist Robert Fripp, saxophonist Mel Collins and bassist/Chapman Stick player Tony Levin. Porcupine Tree member Gavin Harrison was featured on drums. Jakszyk and Harrison would go on to participate together in the next incarnation of King Crimson.
Presented as "a King Crimson ProjeKct" (or spin-off), the album started as a series of improvisations between Jakszyk and Fripp, with Collins adding his parts later. Levin and Harrison joined in near the end of the process, once Jakszyk had shaped the material into songs with fully formed melodies and lyrics.