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Tim “Chris” Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK “Visions” by Ryder-Desmond, a one-off collaboration project featuring British singer-songwriters Kris Ryder (Chris Andrews) and Andy Desmond. https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/visions-non-lp-single
#visions #chrisandrews #krisryder #ryderdesmond #andydesmond #miten #kinks #thepolice #newwave #rycooder #stevehillage #fleetwoodmac #yoga #rogerdaltrey #davidessex #davyjones #monkees
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Tim “Chris” Andrews SONG OF THE WEEK “Visions” by Ryder-Desmond, a one-off collaboration project featuring British singer-songwriters Kris Ryder (Chris Andrews) and Andy Desmond. https://timchrisandrews.bandcamp.com/track/visions-non-lp-single
#visions #chrisandrews #krisryder #ryderdesmond #andydesmond #miten #kinks #thepolice #newwave #rycooder #stevehillage #fleetwoodmac #yoga #rogerdaltrey #davidessex #davyjones #monkees
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Bit of a long ramble coming up…
I first heard Steve Hillage in 1983, when I was 11 and before I had any real interest in alternative musics. The curious thing is it was *many* years before I knew the particular song I’d heard was by Hillage.
In 1983, I bought (no doubt with meagre pocket money) a fairly basic graphical adventure for the BBC Micro called Space Adventure. I’ll link to a page about it here. As was the format of the times, the software was on one side of an audio cassette and took several, seemingly endless minutes to load. The label on the data side said something like “Now play the other side”.
And so I did, and revealed there was an audio track: this odd, catchy, pulsing, arpeggiated-synth song with Hillage’s dream-like vocals and fizzing guitar throughout, which lodged in my memory like nothing I’d ever encountered before. That its sound and the mysterious lyrics fit so perfectly with the rather bleak nature of the game itself only made it more exhilarating to my young ears. For years after this, I wondered what the song was. No information about it was given on the cassette: no title, no artist, no hints at all.
The song was These Uncharted Lands, the opening track on Hillage’s 1983 album For To Next, recorded at a time when Hillage and his partner, Miquette Giraudy, were recording using computer-based music production.
When I heard the song again many years later on the For To Next album, I couldn’t quite believe it. I’d been a fan of Gong and Hillage’s music for a few years by this point and to find out that this enigmatic song was by him left me a little dazed, but delighted. It was as though it had always meant to be, that my later discovery of his music had been pre-empted by the universe. It remains one of my favourite songs, and a testament to the ability of a song to lodge forever in the memory.
There’s no real point to this rather self-indulgent post. But perhaps it’s that sometimes music finds you when you most need it, even if you don’t know you need it.
I still feel a delicious shiver run down my spine when Hillage sings “A memory that only men divine / Leave the resting body far behind / Passing through the mirror of all-seeing / A signal flashing on a radar screen”. It takes me back there, 43 years ago, and I am there, the space adventurer playing that game, dying over and over again, and trying again and again. And again once more.
Thank you for reading. Message ends…
#SteveHillage #TheseUnchartedLands #ForToNext #ElectronicMusic #PsychedelicMusic
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#music #theorb #stevehillage #ozrictentacles #cheeseandgrain
In mid-December, I'm going to the Cheese and Grain to see these beauties:
https://www.cheeseandgrain.com/events/the-orb-ozric-tentacles-system-7/
I'm especially keen to see Steve Hillage. I've been a fan of his since he was with Gong, but his solo work is just as good if not better. Alas, I doubt I'll get to hear him perform "Salmon Song", but you never know...
The Orb are great (they had a great song with "Fluffy little clouds"), and The Ozric Tentacles have been going so long, they have more albums than I can listen to at this point -- but I own bits-and-pieces.
Looking forward to it!
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“My mask is my master The trumpeter weeps …” www.facebook.com/share/v/18Xf... #music #prog #progrock #KevinAyers #SteveHillage
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Tonight's cooking tunes courtesy of Steve Hillage's
Mirror System - Route 77, released 2024. Yes I'm playing something new, just released thanks to @DigitalDruid for the tip off.#TonightsCookingTunes #MirrorSystem #SteveHillage #music #NowPlaying
https://open.spotify.com/album/6Gl60ciqTstqOOPh0R9tFx?si=aFjtKr87Qu-ePN73QBuDcQ
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New #review today: "#ThisCelestialEngine consists of keyboardist #RoyPowell, who has extensive jazz credentials as well as groups such as #Mumpbeak and #InterStatic; bassist #DaveSturt, whom we’ve encountered with #Gong, #JadeWarrior, #BillNelson, #SteveHillage, and more; and drummer #TedParsons, whose career started with #Swans and includes #KillingJoke, #BillLaswell, #Buckethead, and many more." #ExposeOnline #AvantRock #AvantJazz http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/this-celestial-engine-this-celestial-engine-2.html
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Kevin Ayers was born on 16 August 1944.
A key figure in the #CanterburyScene, founding member of #SoftMachine and a friend of #SydBarrett, he recorded several brilliant solo albums from 1969 on, with musicians including #BridgetStJohn, #RobertWyatt, #SteveHillage, #MikeOldfield and #Nico.
Listen to Song For Insane Times from solo debut Joy Of A Toy: https://youtu.be/VjhOK1uR4nc
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Happy Birthday to Nick Mason, born on 27 January 1944. In addition to being Pink Floyd’s drummer and the only member of the band to play on every album, Nick has produced for #RobertWyatt, #Gong and #SteveHillage.
Most recently he formed Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, a live band playing early Floyd numbers, with #GaryKemp on guitar and vocals.
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#SteveHillage - '#BeforeTheStorm' (1983) from the #Album #ForToNextAndNotOr (2007 #Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Biu8TMubxxo&ab_channel=SteveHillage-Topic
#Music #Song #Rock #RockMusic #Pop #PopMusic #Prog #ProgRock #Guitar #Guitars #ElectricGuitar #ElectricGuitars #Synth #Synths #Synthesizer #Synthesizers
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#SteveHillage - '#TheFireInside' (1977) from the #Album #MotivationRadio (2006 #Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSt2-vO4V1g&ab_channel=SteveHillage-Topic
#Music #Song #Rock #RockMusic #Pop #PopMusic #Prog #ProgRock #ProgressiveRock #ProgRockMusic #Guitar #Guitars #ElectricGuitar #ElectricGuitars #Synth #Synths #Synthesizer #Synthesizers #MiquetteGiraudy
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#SteveHillage - '#TheFireInside' (1979) from the #Album #Open (2007 #Remaster)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIDYB4pM9dY&ab_channel=SteveHillage-Topic
#Music #Song #Rock #RockMusic #Pop #PopMusic #Prog #ProgRock #ProgressiveRock #ProgRockMusic #Guitar #Guitars #ElectricGuitar #ElectricGuitars #Synth #Synths #Synthesizer #Synthesizers #MiquetteGiraudy
