Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'/Mothergong/Xitintoday

[Rich]

On further listens today, 'Fairy Tales' may actually be better than 'Eye',
but I think 'Mother' by Gilli is still superior to both the other two.

If you take 'Mother', 'Good Morning' By Daevid Allen, and 'Now is the
Happiest Time of your life' also by Daevid, and some of the material from
the Allen/Smyth/Williamson album 'Stroking the Tail of the Bird' you pretty
much have the core of great recordings Daevid and Gilli did (post trilogy
Gong) in Deya during the mid to late 70's.

The covers not ugly enough for Nik ;-)

Rich

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I beg to differ! Fairy Tales is much better - I remember when it came out
there was a bit of talk about whether or not the cover was based on Nik.
DAVE
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>EBS sneaked out 'Xitintoday' on CD in 1997 with very little promotion. It
>does have an interesting selection of people performing on it.
>
>One CD featuring Nik that sometimes people forget about is 'Fairy Tales' by
>Mother Gong, he's credited as playing Muzma + Oboe.
>
>Fairy Tales is pretty much what it says it is, 3 Fairy Tales set to Music
by
>Harry Williamson and Gilli Smyth.
>
>(Note: If you have money, and have a choice of Mother Gong CDs, buy 'Eye'
>instead it's a better album, or even better Gilli Smyths solo LP, 'Mother'
>recorded in Deya with Daevid. ;-)
>
>
>Rich
>
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>
>Alan Powell and Andy Anderson are on there too!
>
>Dave
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From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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>Date: 26 January 2004 23:41
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>
>>On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, dave hall wrote:
>>
>>> 1978. Around about the time that Hillage and Blake were on the
>Xitintoday.
>>> Dave
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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>>> Date: 15 November 2003 17:19
>>> Subject: Re: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'
>>>
>>>
>>> >On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Rich Warren wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Having been a Gong Fan for many moons, I picked the new Virgin/EMI
>Steve
>>> Hillage
>>> >> Compilation 'Light in the Sky'
>>> >>
>>> >> What a cracking album, very glad I picked it up indeed, has a superb
b
>>> side
>>> >> collaboration with Tim Blake called 'Shimmer', and 'Ether Ships' is
>just
>>> a
>>> >> phenomenal track. 'Activation Meditation/The Glorious Om Riff' is
>truly
>>> awesome.
>>> >
>>> >        I don't suppose any suitably pot-headed people would know when
>>> >that's from exactly so I can stick it in the colaborations file, would
>>> >they?
>>
>>        I hadn't noticed Blake on _Xitintoday_'s credits. Shows how much I
>>know... Thanks for that. Maybe some day this version of the file will make
>>it to the web, you never know. Yours,
>>                                      Jon
>>
>>ObCD: Harvey Bainbridge - _Interstellar Chaos_
>>--
>>                Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
>>    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
>>  "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
>>       So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
>>       (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)
>>
>