Hawkwind-In Your Area. A quick review.

[Michael S. Habiby]

Ok where are these showing up? In stores. over mail order?

Mike

William Duffy wrote:

> Hi there
>
> Here's a quick review.
>
> Tracks 1 to 6 (although it's really 4 tracks, as the other 2 are parts of
> other songs)are live, and tracks 7 to 14 studio.
>
> The first track is an excellent, and very heavy live version of Brainstorm,
> with a really good guitar piece in there. Track 2, Hawkwind In Your Area, is
> still part of track one, and is the reggae bit they do, with new lyrics by
> Captain Rizz.
> Next up is a live version of Alchemy, which is then followed by Love In
> Space. This version isn't too long, with the majority of the track now
> dominated by the heavy bit in the middle, which is now Rat Race, similar to
> the other live versions, but with slightly different lyrics by Captain Rizz.
> This is followed by a really powerful version of Aerospace-Age
> Inferno.
> The first of the studio tracks is First Landing On Medusa. The vocals claim
> to be Dave Brock, but it sounds like Robert Calvert. Dave has done a very
> good impersonation here. The track is really good too.
>
> Track 8 is I Am The Reptoid, and is based around the middle part of Reptoid
> Vision, but is a new track in it's own right.
>
> Track 9 is The Nazca, a short track, running at less than one minute, and is
> basically some narration with spacey music effects in the background.
>
> Hippy is Track 10, and is destined to become a classic. As the title
> suggests, it has lots of Eastern sounds about it, in the style of Kashmir,
> but not a similar sounding track. It's just that it has lots of sitar
> sounds, etc..
>
> Track 11, Prairie, reminds me of the instrumental tracks by people like
> Steve Hackett, Mike Oldfield, Steve Howe, etc., and is interesting since we
> rarely hear this sort of track on a Hawkwind album.
>
> Your Fantasy is a new track which has completely reworked Love In Space into
> a completely different track. There's one or two other familiar bits in
> there (such as Zarozinia), and is a lyrical track about the band (I
> believe).
>
> Track 13 is Luxotica, and reminds me of the partially ambient tracks by Bill
> Nelson, with backward-sounding guitars.
>
> Track 14, Diana Park, is Hawkwind doing Hawaiian music, but in a very
> Hawkwind style.
>
> This album, in my opinion, is the best they've done since the days of Space
> Bandits. There's a lot of variety on here, and they haven't stuck themselves
> into any particular format with the tracks.
>
> It is an interesting mix, and has similarities with other part live, part
> studio albums they have done. Anyway, I always thought the studio tracks on
> these particular albums to be particularly refreshing.
>
> Bye for now
> William