Isola di Wight. Sono i giorni del grande festival di musica rock del 1970. Fuori dei cancelli del festival "istituzionale", a sudden a band concert, perhaps in protest against the high cost of tickets, maybe just because they invited the big event. The " Hawkwind" is the name of the group, they are so known to the public for what they are and always will be: Alternative, independent, spontaneous, underground, always on the edge.
Born in 1969 under the name Group X, later Hawkwind Zoo, and finally the definitive Hawkwind (named after a sci-fi saga by Michael Moorcock, who later became one of their occasional collaborator) were Dave Brock and Mick Slattery on guitar, Nik Turner on flute and saxophone, Dik Mik (Michael Davies) on keyboards, John Harrison on bass, Terry Ollis on drums. Difficult to explain in words their music: blues, folk and roots starting from psychedelic rock to visiting what they call themselves space-rock. The result is music that can fit a full progressive in the galaxy, in a mini-solar system together with Gong, Magma and Sun Ra.
declared aim of their art is to recreate the effects in the listener to a trip without taking hallucinogenic drugs, using only the music, assisted by those developed light shows that will become an integral part of their shows. Prior to record their primo 33giri (Marzo 1970), suonano nelle comuni di Notting Hill Gate, nei raduni hippie, praticamente in tutti i free-concerts (dentro e fuori i cancelli...) dell'Inghilterra del 1970. Durante la registrazione di HAWKWIND (1970), Huw Lloyd-Langton prende il posto di Mick Slattery. Il disco si apre con "Hurry on Sundown", uno dei loro brani più famosi. Tra questo brano ed una dilatata versione di "Mirror of Illusion" posta in chiusura, si srotola un intricato e intrigante viluppo di suoni a metà tra psichedelia ed elettronica povera. Se l'impasto sonoro è palesemente influenzato dai Pink Floyd di Interstellar Overdrive e A Saucerful of Secrets, tra le probabili fonti di ispirazione aggiungerei gli esperimenti musicali di Terry Riley and John Cale.
Before the release of their second album, IN SEARCH OF SPACE (1971), Hawkwind have to their credit a historic performance at the Glastonbury Fayre Festival, which featured for the first time the dancer Miss Stacia, who will become part of their stage-show . Meanwhile, Dave Anderson of Amon Duul II, replaces John Harrison on bass, Del Dettmar, former sound engineer, combines and replaces occasionally Dik Mik on keyboards and guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton left the group. Electronic sounds and texts of science fiction have become the trademark of this band on this record found a maturity and an awareness their means extraordinary. For some it is the masterpiece of the group. To note the long "You Should not Do That" built on a single note, one of the historical parts of their concerts, "Masters Of The Universe" by Black Sabbath and the dark atmosphere of the two sides of a single successful - "7 BY7" / "Silver Machine" - not included in the original version of the album of 1971, but recovered in this edition on CD. During the execution of work, there's the singer and poet Robert Calvert who sings and composes some songs, bassist Ian Fraser Kilmister, Lemmy said, which will replace Dave Anderson and Simon King on drums in place of Terry Ollis.
This education, year after entering the studio for the creation of Doremi Fasol Latido (1972). The artist Barney Bubbles, who also wrote the cover of IN SEARCH OF SPACE , creates metal emblem that will become the official logo of the band. The sound itself has become more metallic in this work (hey, Lemmy Kilmister Motorhead a few years after the merge), so that some will become one of the sources of the metal-rock . To remember the songs long "Brainstorm" and "Time We Left This World Today" and the delicate "Down Through The Night." In the remastered version on CD there are four extra tracks, which include "Urban Guerrilla", a single large successo in Inghilterra.
Ultimo di questo omaggio ad una band (troppo) poco conosciuta, è il quarto album, il doppio dal vivo SPACE RITUAL (1973). Tratto principalmente da due concerti del Dicembre 1972 a Liverpool e Brixton, è una precisa testimonianza (sonora) dei loro stupefacenti live-show dell'epoca. La versione su doppio CD oltre a tre brani extra, restituisce un suono più pulito rispetto alle prime versioni originali su vinile.
HAWKWIND
1. Hurry on Sundown – 4:50 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
2. The Reason Is? – 3:30 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
3. Be Yourself – 8:09 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
4. Paranoia (part 1) – 1:04 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
5. Paranoia (part 2) – 4:11 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
6. Seeing It As You Really Are – 10:43 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
7. Mirror of Illusion – 7:08 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
Bonus tracks aggiunte nel 1996:
1. Bring It On Home – 3:18 – (Willie Dixon)
2. Hurry on Sundown (Hawkwind Zoo demo) – 5:06 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
3. Kiss of the Velvet Whip – 5:28 – (Brock/Hawkwind)
4. Cymbaline – 4:04 – (Roger Waters)
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IN SEARCH OF SPACE
1. You Shouldn't Do That – 15:42 – (Turner/Brock)
2. You Know You're Only Dreaming – 6:38 – (Brock)
3. Master of the Universe – 6:17 – (Turner/Brock)
4. We Took the Wrong Step Years Ago – 4:50 – (Brock)
5. Adjust Me – 5:45 – (Hawkwind)
6. Children of the Sun – 3:21 – (Turner/Anderson)
Tracce aggiunte nel 1996:
1. Seven By Seven – 5:24 – (Brock)
2. Silver Machine – 4:40 (Live at the Roundhouse) – (Calvert/Brock)
3. Born to Go (Live At the Roundhouse) – 5:04 – (Calvert/Brock)
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DOREMI FASOL LATIDO
1. Brainstorm – 11:33 – (Nik Turner)
2. Space Is Deep – 5:10 – (Dave Brock)
3. One Change – 0:49 – (Del Dettmar)
4. Lord of Light – 6:59 – (Brock)
5. Down Through the Night – 3:04 – (Brock)
6. Time We Left This World Today – 8:43 – (Brock)
7. The Watcher – 4:00 – (Lemmy Kilmister)
Tracce aggiunte nel 1996:
1. Urban Guerrilla – 3:41 – (Robert Calvert/Brock)
2. Brainbox Pollution – 5:42 – (Brock)
3. Lord of Light – 3:59 – (Brock)
4. Ejection – 3:47 – (Calvert)
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SPACE RITUAL
Disc 1
1. "Earth Calling" (Robert Calvert) – 1:46
2. "Born To Go" (Calvert, Dave Brock) – 9:56
3. "Down Through The Night" (Brock) – 6:16
4. "The Awakening" (Calvert) – 1:32
5. "Lord Of Light" (Brock) – 7:21
6. "Black Corridor" (Michael Moorcock) – 1:51
7. "Space Is Deep" (Brock) – 8:13
8. "Electronic No. 1" (Dik Mik Davies, Del Dettmar) – 2:26
9. "Orgone Accumulator" (Calvert,Brock) – 9:59
10. "Upside Down" (Brock) – 2:43
11. "10 Seconds Of Forever" (Calvert) – 2:05
12. "Brainstorm" (Turner) – 9:20
Disc 2
1. "7 By 7" (Brock) – 6:13
2. "Sonic Attack" (Moorcock) – 2:54
3. "Time We Left This World Today" (Brock) – 5:47
4. "Master Of The Universe" (Nik Turner, Brock) – 7:37
5. "'Welcome To The Future" (Calvert) – 2:03
Bonus tracks on 1996 Remasters CD
1. "You Shouldn't Do That" (Turner, Brock) / "Seeing It As You Really Are" (Brock) – 6:55
2. "Master Of The Universe" (Turner, Brock) – 7:26
3. "Born To Go" (Calvert, Brock) – 13:04
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