These snippets and snatches were scooped up but then forgotten about during the making of Exposure.[endtease] Though hardly earth-shattering in their content they nevertheless document the power trio that never was of John Wetton, Phil Collins and RF himself. The first finds Phil Collins keeping impeccable time in much the same way he did on Brian Eno’s Energy Fools The Magician on Brian Eno's Before & After Science. Opening up with the universally recognised Crimson distress call, the second section tantalising offers something of promise only for the stop button to cruelly cut them off in their prime. Finally, they woke up that morning and had the Exposure blues. You can see how North Star and ultimately Matte Kudasai evolved.
This track is available for download as part of a bumper collection of Mr Stormy's Monday Selections - his second year of random romps through the murky, cavernous DGM archives, torch in hand, fedora upon his head.
