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LP HAWKWIND Space Ritual (2LP) (Re) Parlophone/Warner 0825646120758 STILL SEALED
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December 24, 2020
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May 11, 2020
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2LP HAWKWIND
Space Ritual
Recorded Live At Liverpool Stadium 22. December 1972 And At Brixton Sundown 30.December 1972
Country of release: UK, 2016
Original released: 1973
Label: Parlophone/Warner
Catalogue number: 0825646120758
Barcode: 0825646120758
Klappcover/Gatefold Sleeve: Ja/Yes
(Multi Fold-Out Cover With Innersleeves, Exact Reproduction Style Of The 1973 Release)
Includes Free Download Coupon
Condition Records: MINT
Condition Cover: MINT
LP ist noch verschweißt / LP IS STILL SEALED !!!
(Photo von meiner eigenen LP / Photo taken from my own copy)
Tracks Side 1:
1. Earth Calling (1:45)
2. Born To Go (9:55)
3. Down Through The Night (6:15)
4. The Awakening (1:44)
Tracks Side 2:1. Lord Of Light (7:26)
2. Black Corridor (1:50)
3. Space Is Deep (8:14)
4. Electronic No 1 (2:42)
Tracks Side 3:1. Orgone Accumulator (10:01)
2. Upside Down (2:43)
3. 10 Seconds Of Forever (2:05 )
4. Brainstorm (9:20)
Tracks Side 4:
1. Seven By Seven (6:11)
2. Sonic Attack (2:54 )
3. Time We Left This World Today (5:43)
4. Master Of The Universe (7:39)
5. Welcome To The Future (2:08)
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Like many other ’70s rock greats, British space-rock pioneers Hawkwind built their legacy on-stage, rather than in the recording studio. On May 11, 1973, the band released their defining masterpiece. ‘Space Ritual,’ their fourth overall LP and first live album, is a mind-numbing double-album behemoth that captures the Hawkwind experience in all its demented glory.
It’s called “space-rock” for a reason. Combining sci-fi lyrics, motorik pulses, and trippy sound effects, Hawkwind’s music is the perfect simulation of space flight — a turbulent rocket blast through alternate galaxies of riffage and noise. And ‘Space Ritual’ (recorded during a pair of performances in London and Liverpool) is their most explosive moment.
If there’s a lead instrument at all, it’s the distorted, brain-bullet bass guitar of Lemmy Kilmister. As a former rhythm guitarist, he brings a chordal, melodic presence to the band’s low-end, while the rest of the band (woodwind player Nik Turner, drummer Simon King, guitarist/vocalist Dave Brock, the twin synthesizers of Dik Mik and Del Dettmar) offers texture and turmoil.
Hawkwind are often labeled a “prog-rock” band, and on some levels, that makes perfect sense — as a whole, prog is saturated with spacey concept albums and indulgent textures. But Hawkwind were never virtuosos — their playing here is too raw, too reckless, too barbaric. The sheer repetition of the riffs puts them more in line with the kraut-rock scene, and the rhythm section (particularly King’s sloppy drum fills) points toward punk. Perhaps the band’s easiest reference point is Pink Floyd (who released a psychedelic masterwork of their own in 1973), but Hawkwind’s brand of space-rock is more aggressive and, well, nasty.
The Space Ritual Tour (in promotion of the band’s third studio album, 1972’s ‘Doremi Fasol Latido‘) itself was a spectacle, filled with light shows, dancers, and spoken-word interludes delivered by sci-fi writer Robert Calvert. Through the sheer velocity of its music, ‘Space Ritual’ the album feels like a multi-sensory experience, from the unrelenting psychedelic throb of ‘Born to Go’ to the bluesy thrust of ‘Orgone Accumulator’ to the sound effect showcase ‘Electronic No. 1.’ Calvert’s mood-setting poems (delivered in a campy, borderline-Shakespearian accent) are a tad off-putting without a visual counterpart, but they do offer the album a welcome respite from the aural onslaught.
‘Space Ritual’ was the band’s most commercially successful album to date, landing at #9 in the U.K. and even cracking the Billboard Top 200 at #179. Today, it’s something of a cult-classic, a relic from an age of space-age wonder. Even now, there’s still nothing else quite like it. (By Ryan Reed May 11, 2013 2:12 PM/ultimateclassicrock.com)
Robert Calvert - Poet & Swazzle
Dave Brock - Guitar, Vocals
Lemmy - Bass, Vocals
Nik Turner - Saxophone, Flute, Vocals
Dik Mik - Audio Generator, Electronics
Del Dettmar - Synthesizer
Simon King - Drums
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