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    Posted: February 14 2021 at 08:56
Steve Hillage has been part of the Canterbury Scene since the late 1960's. It all began when he teamed up with keyboard player Dave Stewart for the self-titled Arzachel album in 1969. They went onto even greater things together in 1972 with the acclaimed one-off album by Khan: Space Shanty  - voted the best Canterbury Scene debut in a recent poll. Steve Hillage was also a long-standing member of the Jazz Fusion collective, Gong, before making a splash with his debut solo album, Fish Rising in 1975. If you like Canterbury Scene music, this fish-themed album will have you hooked! His follow up album is one L of a good album too. Smile
 
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he also is a guest on the 3rd Egg album "The Civil Surface"




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Fish rising!! masterpiece!!
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

he also is a guest on the 3rd Egg album "The Civil Surface"
 
Maybe the band Egg poached Steve Hillage from Gong. Tongue
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Egg is nothing else than Arzachel without Hillage.
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Originally posted by BaldJean BaldJean wrote:

he also is a guest on the 3rd Egg album "The Civil Surface"


I've always liked that album cover. LOL
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Later Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy did some techno (or rather "Ambient Dance", as Wikipedia says)  as "System 7".
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Steve Hillage - Live at Rockpalast, Germany - 1977

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Love Hillage. Khan is beyond words! Anyway, here is Steve's other project... System 7.
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Khan's Space Shanty has been one of my very favourite albums. It's not one I have easily been able to listen to since early 2008 because it was a painful time and that was the music I was most listening to for solace.

Arzachel is my other favourite. I do like Hillage's Green. Fish Rising was a disappointment for me when I picked it up, but there is very good music on it. I'd heard that it was like a cross between Space Shanty and Gong's You, which were the two albums I was most into at the time, and for me it didn't reach the peaks of either. I have since returned to it and liked it more, but I guess that initial disappointment due to my expectations never totally went away.
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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

Khan's Space Shanty has been one of my very favourite albums. It's not one I have easily been able to listen to since early 2008 because it was a painful time and that was the music I was most listening to for solace.

Arzachel is my other favourite. I do like Hillage's Green. Fish Rising was a disappointment for me when I picked it up, but there is very good music on it. I'd heard that it was like a cross between Space Shanty and Gong's You, which were the two albums I was most into at the time, and for me it didn't reach the peaks of either. I have since returned to it and liked it more, but I guess that initial disappointment due to my expectations never totally went away.
 
I love the Arzachel album too. Steve Hillage is just one of the many outstanding artists I've discovered since joining ProgArchives. Until recently, not only did I not realise he was part of the Canterbury Scene, I didn't even know there was such a thing as the Canterbury Scene before arriving here just seventeen months ago. Smile
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Originally posted by Heart of the Matter Heart of the Matter wrote:

It's "L" for me!
 
I picked up "L" in a handbasket of CD's recently. Smile
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Like all his stuff but Fish Rising is probably my favorite thanks to the addition of Dave Stewart, who along with Dave Sinclair are my favorite keyboard players. Steve also features heavily on the Clearlight Symphony album which is in a similar vein. 
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Aw, Rainbow Dome Musick is a great album! I mean, I suppose I could see why someone would hate with it not really having the drive or the pulse of a conventional rock album while also being too attention-demanding to serve as ambient music, but I think it's a wonderful listening experience personally.
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I've always thought he should have an album titled "Pillage the Village by Hillage.
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Originally posted by Mirakaze Mirakaze wrote:

Aw, Rainbow Dome Musick is a great album! I mean, I suppose I could see why someone would hate with it not really having the drive or the pulse of a conventional rock album while also being too attention-demanding to serve as ambient music, but I think it's a wonderful listening experience personally.
It's okay if you like that kind of thing, but I found it a bit of a drone. Maybe you have to listen to the musick inside a dome to truly appreciate the album. Smile
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Love his guitar playing especially on Fish Rising. Great melodies and great solos too.

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I have the four albums: "Fish Rising", "L", "Motivation Radio", and "Green". My favourite track is "Lunar Musick Suite" (which I distinctly prefer to "Solar Musick Suite"), as well as "The Glorious Om Riff", which I have since discovered is based on a Gong track.
 
 
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Originally posted by I prophesy disaster I prophesy disaster wrote:

I have the four albums: "Fish Rising", "L", "Motivation Radio", and "Green". My favourite track is "Lunar Musick Suite" (which I distinctly prefer to "Solar Musick Suite"), as well as "The Glorious Om Riff", which I have since discovered is based on a Gong track.
 
 
I have those same four Steve Hillage albums too. Thumbs Up
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