“After King Crimson ended there was a kind of inertia. I’d lost confidence musically, like, ‘Who am I now?’”: Jakko Jakszyk’s return with solo album Son Of Glen

Jakko Jakszyk.

Former King Crimson guitarist/vocalist Jakko Jakszyk’s first solo album in five years, Son Of Glen, is a companion piece of sorts to his acclaimed 2024 autobiography Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?, recording the adoptee’s attempts to track down his birth parents.

He began working on the record after co-producing his partner and fellow musician Louise Patricia Crane’s 2024 album Netherworld. “After King Crimson ended in 2021, there was a kind of inertia,” he says. “I’d written the book, but I’d lost confidence musically somehow; like, ‘Who the fuck am I now?’ Louise built me back up, saying, ‘No, you can do all sorts of stuff.’”