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Track Listings
| 1. Solar Musick Suite (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 2. Fish (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 3. Meditation Of The Snake (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 4. The Salmon Song (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 5. Aftaglid (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 6. Pentagrammaspin (2006 Digital Remaster) |
| 7. Aftaglid (Power Trio Backing Track) (2006 Digital Remaster) |
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Digitally remastered reissue of the former Gong guitarist's 1975 debut solo album featuring bonus tracks from Hillage's personal tape archives. Compiled with Steve's full co-operation and featuring rare photos and memorabilia plus liner notes written by Prog expert Mark Powell. 2006.
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By Chromex
Format:Audio CD
What I have to add, beyond my full agreement with the other reviewers, is how inspired all these gifted musicians were in the studio. If you want to hear studio jams that cook to the point of nova-like intensity, there can be no better album. Just listen to the "horn" section ( probably Gong's Dieder Maherbe and Lindsay Cooper of Henry Cow on saxes and bassoon, repsectively) near the end of "The Salmon Song". What is even more remarkable is that the recording "smokes" even though much of the time all you are listening to is multi-layered Hillage.
Anyway, "Salmon" is hot from the get-go, "Solar Musik Suite" builds to a tremendous, shattering climax and "Aftaglid" has to be heard to be believed.All preferably LOUD.
This is the real deal. Probably explains its obscurity. None of the standard issue guitar gods (Clapton, Hendrix) EVER issued anything like this. And the only other thing I heard that was close was labeled "jazz" (LArry Coryell, Live at the Village Gate-its Coryell's ultimate psychrock jam and sadly forgotten now.)
Anyway, "Salmon" is hot from the get-go, "Solar Musik Suite" builds to a tremendous, shattering climax and "Aftaglid" has to be heard to be believed.All preferably LOUD.
This is the real deal. Probably explains its obscurity. None of the standard issue guitar gods (Clapton, Hendrix) EVER issued anything like this. And the only other thing I heard that was close was labeled "jazz" (LArry Coryell, Live at the Village Gate-its Coryell's ultimate psychrock jam and sadly forgotten now.)
By barbcity
Format:Audio CD
I was a teenager in the midwest in the early 70's and pretty much kept my music purchases back then to "imports".... with a heavy tilt toward GONG, HAWKWIND, CAMEL, ASH RA TEMPLE, CAN, and like minded music. I ended up with a collection of about 3,000 LP's and later another 1,500 or so CD's. I of course ended up expanding my interests to include more main stream music (I bought my fair share of BLUE OYSTER CULT, STEVE MILLER BAND, JETHRO TULL and so forth).
But my heart belongs to instrumental music of a certain progressive tilt. I'm a huge fan of OZRIC TENTACLES, ORBITAL, THE ORB and other modern keepers of the faith (and I love my a fair share of world, electronica, and "new age" music too).
Anyway, I should get to the point... Out of all the music I have bought in my life time FISH RISING by STEVE HILLAGE is my favorite hands down. When it first came out I thought it was something special and time has done nothing to diminish my view of it. I know I wore out my first couple of imported LP's back in the 70's and I now probably have 6 or 7 vinyl copies and another 2 or 3 copies on CD.
FISH RISING was 20 years ahead of it's time when it first came out and it sounds as fresh today as it did then. Hillage's later solo albums are great also and I do enjoy his current SYSTEM 7 work but for me FISH RISING will always be his masterpiece.
If you have not heard this album and you love great space/jazz/rock/electronic music..... this is a MUST HAVE addition to your collection.
Format:Audio CD
Man, is it possible to give an album 6 stars? If it was, I would have given it to Steve Hillage's "Fish Rising". From the opening, raga-influenced chords of 'The Sun Suite', to the conclusion of the same name, Steve proves that he was at the forefront of hippie-rock, and also proved that he could blow your mind long before his foray into techno. Utilising the talents of many of the musicians of the uber-hippie psychedelic rock band Gong, Steve and his cohorts display a remarkable adeptness at making the listener feel relaxed and peaceful. Note: Mind expanding drugs optional, but hardly necessary. Just lie on the floor with one speaker at each ear, and you'll fell the full effect.
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YOU Part II
Fish Rising serves as a continuation of the musical format presented on "You" by Gong, which was released the previous year. Read more
Published on Mar 14 2003 by Jeffrey J.Park
5.0 out of 5 stars
His Best!
Apparently, Steve Hillage was quite bid in England in the mid to late 1970's. I think the last album I pick up of his solo work was his first, Fish Rising. Read more
Published on Mar 1 2003 by Carl Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Essential Psych-prog tripfest - Holy Music
This album haunted me like a ghost for years. First I received most of it on a tape with an impossible to read label. Something about fish but nothing clear. Read more
Published on Dec 7 2002
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Canterbury influenced album
This album is just fabulous.Steve Hillage's guitar work is brilliant, creating soundscapes and atmospheres through interconecting musical themes. Read more
Published on July 16 2002 by "caravanfan"
4.0 out of 5 stars
The most underrated guitar genius on the planet
There must be a thousand Hendrix and Jimmy Page cover stories in guitar magazines all over the planet but I don't think you'll have an easy time finding even 3 of STEVE HILLAGE,... Read more
Published on Jun 25 2001 by TUCO H.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Stunning and beautifully complex.
I have to echo the other reviewers here. The music swirls with complex changes yet flows like an improvisation. Read more
Published on May 28 2001 by J. Thomas Hudson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Heavy, psychedelic multilayered rock - an adventure in music
Steve Hillage - Fish Rising, 1975.
This is Hillage's first real solo album, but the influence of his couple of years in Gong are quite audible. Read more
Published on Oct 2 2000 by Micheal O Mealoid
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gives rock music a good name!
Too many cooks usually spoil the broth but in this case the psychedellic stew is as tasty as it gets. Steve Hillage, Dave Stewart ( the Hatfield one not the Eurythmic one! Read more
Published on Dec 3 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
psychedelic-audio-orgasmatron
This is quite possibly one of the finest recordings ever adhered to plastic. If you do not own this ,FIND IT!!!!!,any way you can. Read more
Published on July 2 1999
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