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I have to say, as a lifelong music fan, 2007 was a banner year I will not soon forget.I do believe I have listened to more and varied musical styles last year than any year since becoming a cellular being. Prior to finding this fabulous world at Mog, I pretty much busied myself filling in a lot of holes from music that was lost over the years. Someday, I'll do a post on my ill-fated move to Cali, but for now suffice to say - 2007 HOO-BOY! so, as I sit and ponder all the ... MORE
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Really enjoying the recently reissued Steve Hillage catalog this morning. While many of my colleagues know Hillage for his work with System 7 and the Orb, they don't know much about his guitar-god status during the 1970s. Hillage rose to prominence as a member of Gong, recorded the SUPERB progressive classic "Space Shanty" with his band Khan (which also featured keyboardist Dave Stewart, later of Hatfield & the North and National Health) and released a string of solo al... MORE
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Next to a Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley (1968) my most favorite album (with a rainbow in the title) is Rainbow Dome Musick by Steve Hillage (1979), a magnificent two tracks/two sides album from the Canterbury school of progressive rock. I don't really know whether to give credit to Brian Eno for liberating late 70s English proggers like Hillage to giving longer expression to the hauntingly beautiful, but oh-so-short instrumentals that figure only as too-brief interm... MORE
