Hawkwind imports; Quarkspace

[Gary Davis]

Hi, folks:

The latest Artist Shop newsletter is out and you'll find it in its entirety
at <http://www.artist-shop.com/news.htm>.  Here are some excerpts of
interest to Hawkwind/BOC fans.

On our import preorder page
<http://www.artist-shop.com/catalog/imports/preorder.htm> you'll find:

HAWKWIND-EPOCH - ECLIPSE 30 YEAR... (3CD)
Three disc retrospective to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the kings
of space rock. 45 tracks, including some remixes, single edits, original
versions and other hard to find gems. Includes 'Master Of The Universe',
'Silver Machine', 'Hurry On Sundown' and 'Motorhead'. The full title is
'Epoch - Eclipse 30 Year Anthology'.

HAWKWIND-EPOCH - ECLIPSE (THE ULTIMATE BEST OF)
1999 retrospective to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the kings of
space rock. 19 tracks, including some single edits. Includes 'Master Of The
Universe', two versions of 'Silver Machine' and more!

On our page of newly released imports
<http://www.artist-shop.com/catalog/imports/new.htm> you'll find:

BLUE OYSTER CULT-AGENTS OF FORTUNE
Limited edition reissue, in a digipak, of B.O.C.'s top 30 & platinum 1976
album featuring the classic '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'.

GONG-OTHER SIDE OF THE SKY (2CD)
Two CD compilation of the finest recordings by Daevid Allen with his space/
prog outfit Gong. Includes 'The Pot Head Pixies', 'Squeezing Sponges Over
Policemans Heads' and 'Sold To The Highest Buddha'. 22 tracks total.

HAWKWIND-BACK CATALOG:
IT IS THE BUSINESS OF THE FUTURE TO BE DANGEROUS
LEVITATION
LIVE IN 1979
PALACE SPRINGS
SPACE BANDITS
XENON CODEX
Reissues of select albums from the '80s & '90s by the legendary English
prog/ space rock group.

Also, fans of Hawkind and space rock in general may be familiar with an up
and coming space rock group called Quarkspace which has been newly added to
our New Artist section <http://www.artist-shop.com/newart/index3.htm>.
Quarkspace was formed in 1984 and was originally called Quark! "Space" was
added later to stave off any potential lawsuits by a certain software
company. College classmates - Jay Swanson on keys, and Kevin Wherry on bass
were joined by the brother of a classmate - Darren Gough (guitar).  They
proceeded to work on cover material, planning to play frat parties and local
bars.  Fledgling singer-songwriter Chet Santia soon joined along with
Darren's classmate, Paul Williams on drums.  Whilst slaving over cover tunes
by Zappa, Camel, Neil Young, Talking Heads, etc., plus a few originals - a
knack for communal space jams became apparent.

Paul and Chet both left in early 1986 to concentrate on school. The other
members continued for about a year with another singer and a couple of
drummers before Quark!  went dormant for a period. In the interim, Jay
released a couple of cassettes of homespun keyboard music. Paul played in a
few bands (including the almost legendary New Druids) and released an
ambient space solstice-music cassette that once was the first release from
Eternity's Jest Records.  Dave Wexler had spent several years writing songs
and playing guitar in bands along the west coast before meeting Paul in 1991.

Quarkspace released it's first CD in 1996 with Dave (and others) appearing
as a guest.  By the time spacefolds 2 was released, Dave became the newest
member of the band. Since then quarkspace has done several successful live
performances (including appearances at Strange Daze 97 & 98 with Hawkwind
and some of the other best American spacerock bands, including Alien
Planetscapes, Architectual Metaphor, F/i, Melting Euphoria, Pressurehed,
ST37, Born to Go, etc).  Their second CD, Live Orion, was recorded at the
first Orion Spacerock festival. It was named the 3rd best
Psychedelic/Spacerock Album of 1998 by the French-canadien Avant-garde radio
show, Delire Musical. It also finished #53 on the Gagliarchives Top 100
Progressive albums of 1998.

Quarkspace have just released their latest CD, Spacefolds 5, the latest in
the Spacefolds series and the first released on CD.  This is not a mini-CD
as the price might suggest, but over 70 minutes of extended space jams!
...an outer space rave leading to a journey across uncharted space towards
ascension into the quark nebula...   100% certified raw improv...enjoy and
beware...

National Steam is made up of Paul and Dave from quarkspace, plus special
guests.   They specialize in psychedelic progressive electronica with some
kinda strange and crunchy exceptions. Mike Taylor of the Gilbraltar
Electronic Magazine says Steam are "excellent.... kinda reminds me of
Clearlight." J. J. Iglesias of the Spanish magazine Atropos loved the debut
space cassette "SteamDream 1", comparing it to Steve Hillage/Tim Blake era
Gong. John Patterson of Progression Magazine highly recommended the Steam
debut CD, saying the boys "hit the cosmick nail square on its head!" J. D.
Dallas of cringe.com wondered whether R2D2 made a guest appearance! Check
'em out!!!

Gary

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