Jazz solo....o con leche: Steve Hillage

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viernes, 27 de noviembre de 2020

STEVE HILLAGE / SPARKS VOL. 4 . 1980-90.

Calidad FLAC.

TRACKS :

01. Time Lines [1983 Single B-Side (Studio Pre-Mix)] [06:16]

02. Before The World Was Made [1983 Single B-Side (Studio PreMix)] [03:36]

03. Explosion [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [03:56]

04. Rescue Mission [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [04:23]

05. Infomaniac [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [02:39]

06. Forgotten Pleasure [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [03:35]

07. No Fret [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [05:23]

08. Never Let You Go [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [04:22]

09. Everest [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [05:43]

10. Congo Glide [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [02:46]

11. Bird's Eye View [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [02:24]

12. Crystaline [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [03:05]

13. The Aperture [1980-82 Unfinished Track] [02:15]

14. Set The Controls To The Heart Of The Sun [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [01:36]

15. Spanish Castle Magic [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [02:43]

16. Bon Humeur (Demo) [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [03:17]

17. Strange Quotations (Demo) [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [02:16]

18. Floating World [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [03:21]

19. Work It Out [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [02:52]

20. Glid [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [01:58]

21. Future Fifths [1989-90 System 7 Demo] [05:41]

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lunes, 2 de noviembre de 2020

STEVE HILLAGE / SPARKS VOL. 3 . 1976-79.

Calidad FLAC

If you want to sum up Steve Hillage's musical career in a single boxed set... well, actually, this wouldn't do it, but it comes incredibly close.

As well as containing all of his original run of solo albums (including Live Herald) and a brace of live sets (including full versions of the 1976 and 1979 BBC sessions, tracks from which which had previously been released in an abbreviated set, and the previously released Deeply Vale set and 2006 Gong Unconvention set, as well as several never-before-released gigs), you also get a stack of demo material, the original albums from Arzachel and Khan on which Steve cut his teeth, and you even get the first System 7 album to give you a little taste of where Steve and Miquette Giraudy (his partner in life and music since the early 1970s) are directing most of their creative energies these days.

The major gap, then, would be his Gong-era work, though to be honest you'd really need a whole separate boxed set to contain all that and the rights issues there are likely to be a bit of a landmine.

As far as the previously unreleased live sets go, BBC Radio 1 In Concert 1976 offers a strong, punchy run-through of best material from Fish Rising and L, which sells me on the idea of Hillage having a really forceful backing band better than L did, whilst the 1979 BBC material has Steve and the band delivering an unexpectedly funky attempt at the material, almost as though Steve were testing out a left turn into Young Americans-type territory.

Live at Brighton Dome showcases how on the Motivation Radio tour Hillage wove his shorter songs from that album and extracts from the longer works which were highlights of Fish Rising and L into wild journeys, or unfolded individual songs into long extended jams, and is probably the best of the live sets here. Live at Schwaubinger Bräu, Munich and Live at the Odeon Hammersmith are both OK sets marred by shaky sound quality, though not as bad as the horrible sound quality on Deeply Vale.

In all honesty, this is probably more Hillage than anyone actually needs - out of the stuff on here which you couldn't otherwise get elsewhere, I'd probably only want to hold onto the 1976 BBC set and the Brighton Dome gig. But if you really want to wallow deep in Hillage's discography, this is as close to a definitive career retrospective as you're ever likely to find.

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martes, 22 de septiembre de 2020

STEVE HILLAGE / SPARKS VOL. 2 . 1974-1976.

Calidad FLAC.

TRACKS :

01. Don’t Dither Do It

recorded in:

Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom (in 1974)

2:42

02. All the Time in the World

recorded in:

Notting Hill, Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, United Kingdom (in 1974)

3:44

03. Beginning to See the Light

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)

6:04

04. Fish

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)

1:07

05. Light in the Sky

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)

7:25

06. Electrick Gypsies

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)

5:09

07. Aftaglid (Tambura Backing Track Mix)

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)

12:42

08. Pentagrammaspin

bass:

Mike Howlett (in 1974-09)

drums (drum set):

Pierre Moerlen (in 1974-09)

keyboard:

Dave Stewart (Canterbury keyboardist, NOT the Eurythmics' Dave Stewart) (in 1974-09)

recorded at:

The Manor in Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom (in 1974-09)