Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'/Mothergong/Xitintoday

[dave hall]

I beg to differ! Fairy Tales is much better - I remember when it came out
there was a bit of talk about whether or not the cover was based on Nik.
DAVE
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From: Rich <cosmicdolphin at COMCAST.NET>
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Date: 28 January 2004 01:52
Subject: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'/Mothergong/Xitintoday


>EBS sneaked out 'Xitintoday' on CD in 1997 with very little promotion. It
>does have an interesting selection of people performing on it.
>
>One CD featuring Nik that sometimes people forget about is 'Fairy Tales' by
>Mother Gong, he's credited as playing Muzma + Oboe.
>
>Fairy Tales is pretty much what it says it is, 3 Fairy Tales set to Music
by
>Harry Williamson and Gilli Smyth.
>
>(Note: If you have money, and have a choice of Mother Gong CDs, buy 'Eye'
>instead it's a better album, or even better Gilli Smyths solo LP, 'Mother'
>recorded in Deya with Daevid. ;-)
>
>
>Rich
>
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>
>Alan Powell and Andy Anderson are on there too!
>
>Dave
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>From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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>Date: 26 January 2004 23:41
>Subject: Re: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'
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>
>>On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, dave hall wrote:
>>
>>> 1978. Around about the time that Hillage and Blake were on the
>Xitintoday.
>>> Dave
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>>> From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
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>>> Date: 15 November 2003 17:19
>>> Subject: Re: OFF: Steve Hillage 'Light in the Sky'
>>>
>>>
>>> >On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Rich Warren wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Having been a Gong Fan for many moons, I picked the new Virgin/EMI
>Steve
>>> Hillage
>>> >> Compilation 'Light in the Sky'
>>> >>
>>> >> What a cracking album, very glad I picked it up indeed, has a superb
b
>>> side
>>> >> collaboration with Tim Blake called 'Shimmer', and 'Ether Ships' is
>just
>>> a
>>> >> phenomenal track. 'Activation Meditation/The Glorious Om Riff' is
>truly
>>> awesome.
>>> >
>>> >        I don't suppose any suitably pot-headed people would know when
>>> >that's from exactly so I can stick it in the colaborations file, would
>>> >they?
>>
>>        I hadn't noticed Blake on _Xitintoday_'s credits. Shows how much I
>>know... Thanks for that. Maybe some day this version of the file will make
>>it to the web, you never know. Yours,
>>                                      Jon
>>
>>ObCD: Harvey Bainbridge - _Interstellar Chaos_
>>--
>>                Jonathan Jarrett, Birkbeck College, London
>>    jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk/ejarr01 at students.bbk.ac.uk
>>  "As much as the vision of the blind man improves with the rising sun,
>>       So too does the intelligence of the fool after good advice."
>>       (Bishop Theodulf of Orleans, late-eight/early-ninth century)
>>
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