Interesting video Ales. I am a little familiar with Gong, but Steve Hillage's solo albums is still on my to do list. I did not come out with a favorite, but do need to move Hillage up on my list of artists to aquire more music from.
Thanks for visiting. Hillage is certainly more in the Psychedelic genre than Prog, but those two were always overlapping. He also did some "Proto Ambient" type of music.
@@AlesPickar Yeah. Turner's playing sounds like no other sax player. His atonal rasp and forced harmonic overtones give it an almost Arabic/Moroccan vibe. If you give Hawkwind's Space Ritual album a listen you will hear what I mean. I have Green on the original 1978 transparent green vinyl with the original insert lyric sheet (which I have in front of me now), and on it it says "Special thanks to... Nik Turner". It doesn't say "sax" but nobody else is credited as playing sax on the album. I believe this is due to Nik not having permission from his label to play on a Virgin label recording. It should be noted that I can find no other evidence for this online, and Nik is not even mentioned on the Wiki page for Green, where again, no saxophone or any other wind instrument is even mentioned. However, to anyone as familiar with both Gong and Hawkwind as I am, not to mention Turner's free jazz blasting vs Malherbe's virtuoso playing, it is so obviously Nik's sax on this.
@@AlesPickar Also, I have seen Malherbe playing the duduk live, several times, and even though I have never seen Turner play anything other than the flute and saxophone, I cannot prove that he never did.
ps, This is the heaviest version: ua-cam.com/video/ASoUUKzgCG0/v-deo.html. I have also seen Acid Mothers Temple play this for nearly an hour straight, and I have seen them play it with Daevid Allen as Acid Mothers Gong.
Interesting video Ales. I am a little familiar with Gong, but Steve Hillage's solo albums is still on my to do list. I did not come out with a favorite, but do need to move Hillage up on my list of artists to aquire more music from.
Thanks for visiting. Hillage is certainly more in the Psychedelic genre than Prog, but those two were always overlapping. He also did some "Proto Ambient" type of music.
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16:25 The instrument is a saxophone and it is played by Nik Turner of Hawkwind.
Thanks. Didn't know that.
Almost sounding like a duduk from Armenia or something like that...
@@AlesPickar Yeah. Turner's playing sounds like no other sax player. His atonal rasp and forced harmonic overtones give it an almost Arabic/Moroccan vibe. If you give Hawkwind's Space Ritual album a listen you will hear what I mean.
I have Green on the original 1978 transparent green vinyl with the original insert lyric sheet (which I have in front of me now), and on it it says "Special thanks to... Nik Turner". It doesn't say "sax" but nobody else is credited as playing sax on the album. I believe this is due to Nik not having permission from his label to play on a Virgin label recording.
It should be noted that I can find no other evidence for this online, and Nik is not even mentioned on the Wiki page for Green, where again, no saxophone or any other wind instrument is even mentioned.
However, to anyone as familiar with both Gong and Hawkwind as I am, not to mention Turner's free jazz blasting vs Malherbe's virtuoso playing, it is so obviously Nik's sax on this.
@@AlesPickar Also, I have seen Malherbe playing the duduk live, several times, and even though I have never seen Turner play anything other than the flute and saxophone, I cannot prove that he never did.
ps, This is the heaviest version: ua-cam.com/video/ASoUUKzgCG0/v-deo.html.
I have also seen Acid Mothers Temple play this for nearly an hour straight, and I have seen them play it with Daevid Allen as Acid Mothers Gong.
You is a glorious album, indeed. I should listen to some more Hillage solo, I guess.
I really like "Motivation Radio" from 1977. But he also made this exciting live double album called "Live Herald" in 1979.