The fool on the hillage
steve hillage - octave doctors (mp3)
a lovely beach-kissed balearic instrumenal for a rare sunny day here in manchester, this is taken from steve hillage’s 1977 album ‘motivation radio’. what starts off like a cosmic excursion into nick drake’s ‘joey’ continues to build with multiple layers of echo and guitar licks into a psychedelic haze - fans of pyramid-era alan parsons could do well with checking this shit out …
hillage has a pretty interested phoenix-from-the-flames story - he dissapeared for a few years in the 80s, but on hearing one of this tracks in a chill out room of a london club he got talking to the dj, who happened to be dr. alex paterson from the orb. they collaborated on a few pieces, and on the back of this hillage came back to the fore as a sough-after producer, having a hand in producing the charlatans self-titled album, as well as twiddling the knobs for three albums from scotch-rockers breakfast-clubbers simple minds. hillage was responsible for their blinding track ‘theme from great cities’, which i’m sure you’ll agree is quite the claim to fame!
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schoolsy added these pithy words on Jul 24 07 at 2:20 pmvery nice track. can’t believe you used the same picture as i did for my hillage homage tho…
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Kev added these pithy words on Jul 24 07 at 4:23 pmhaha shit no way … that’s the cover of the album this track is on, so i suppose i can claim bagsy on it no?
man check that old hillage post out, there’s more dots that an ink splattered dot to dot book ……………………….
schoolsy added these pithy words on Jul 24 07 at 7:06 pmyeah, that when the blog was a lot more unprofessional…i think we (more me) have come on leaps and bounds since those amateur days…
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