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

[Mick Crook]

Is 'Mother' available on CD?

Thanks
Mick


> 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
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rich <cosmicdolphin at COMCAST.NET>
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>Date: 28 January 2004 01:52
>Subject: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'/Mothergong/Xitintoday
>
>
>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
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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>Date: 26 January 2004 23:41
>Subject: Re: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'
>
>
>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>
> To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET <BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET>
> 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)
>
>

May there always be starlight on the path...Burnham Jr.

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