Spiral Realms - Solar Wind (c) 1996 Cleopatra
Artist....: Spiral Realms
Album.....: Solar Wind
Type......: Album
Source....: CDDA
Tracks....: 08
Genre.....: Electronic
Label.....: Cleopatra
Catalogue#: CLP 9764-2
Encoder...: LAME 3.97
Quality...: VBR kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint-Stereo
URL.......: http://www.discogs.com/release/301254
Tracklist:
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01 Cysyrgy 04:56
02 Lunar Sea 05:09
03 1000 Years Under Solar Sails 10:08
04 Tritium 06:34
05 Solar Wind 08:32
06 Del Dettmar Improvisation 04:16
07 The Forge Of Vulcan 06:42
08 Interstellar Overdrive 08:54
Total:67,2 MB / 55:11 min
Release Notes:
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Electronic / Ambient/ Experiment / Space Rock
Spiral Realms is the brainchild of legendary violinist Simon House of
Third Ear Band, HawkwindÆs finest era (In the Hall of the Mountain
Grill, Warrior on the Edge of Time, Astounding Sounds, 25 Years On,
Quark, Strangeness & Charm and PXR 5) and David Bowie fame. In 1995, he
decided to take a brilliant track off Warrior called Spiral Galaxy
28948 (according to legend, his birth date!) and produce two albums of
similarly spectacular, spacey, psychedelic and totally original
electronic music of the highest caliber. The first one ,Trip to G9 is a
collaboration with American Len Del Rio (keyboardist with Nic Turner's
Sphynx as well as Hawkwind side project Anubian Lights) and it is a
most rewarding electronic symphony that owes a little to the Tangerine
Dream/ Klaus Schulze style but is way more violin driven which gives it
a completely different aura. It's as if the USS Enterprise was now
commanded by Captain House and that his phasers were string-driven
things of sublime power that scoured deep into the farthest corners of
space , streaming past ôThe Red Giant, warp-speeding towards ôTritiumö
and spending the next 1,000 Years Under Solar Sails. Spiraling,
swirling, zooming, gushing waves of sequence-drenched euphoria is well
worth the adventure. Unfortunately, this wonderful material has
remained unknown and can be found for a song and dance on Amazon-type
sites. The follow up Crystal Jungles of Eos is as good if not even an
asteroid better. Fans of Hawkwind obviously need these but should
appeal to instrumental electronic progfans, regardless which planet
they may come from. Well worth the trek. 4 sonic meteors