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 Cal...
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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 haunting...
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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 ...
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MUSIC NEWS - The Steve Hillage Band is now confirmed as special guest on Gong's upcoming UK countrywide November UK tour. The run starts off at the Bristol O2 Academy on Thursday November 19th. This will be the first time since 1979 when guitarist Hillage will perform material from his renowned Steve Hillage Band solo albums - 'Fish Rising' (1975), 'L' (1976), 'Motivation Radio' (1977) and 'Gr.
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