na: LOUDweirdLOUD
Amazing! Just a week or two after I mentioned it on 17 Dots as a comparison to Parson Sound, Hawkwind’s absolutely incredible Space Ritual Vol. 2 hit the site today, and anyone with any level of interest in metal, drone or just amazingly weird sounds would be wise to pick this up. This is a live set from 1972, when Lemmy (later of Motorhead) was still on bass. I can’t recommend this record enough.
Also of interest is the best band I saw at SXSW in 2007, Green Milk from the Planet Orange. They are a Japanese noise/metal trio (read that link in the previous sentence for a description of their nuts live show) and we got two of their albums on the site yesterday, He’s Crying Look and You Take Me to the World (I’m assuming something was lost in the translation on those titles). Of the two, I recommend the two-track, half-hour long You Take Me, which bridges Hawkwind and stuff along the lines of Lightning Bolt. Yay for weird music!
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I believe the Hawkwind album is actually mislabeled, it is actually ‘Space Ritual Sundown V.2′ recorded on the same tour as Space Ritual but a different show. At least that’s what I’ve been able to figure out so far…
Larger version of the cover is here http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Space_Ritual_Sundown_V._2_-_Hawkwind.jpg
I just saw Alaska in Winter recently and absolutely loved them and didn’t have a chance to grab a copy of their cd, do you know if you will ever get Dance Party in the Balkans? You only have them on a comp at the moment. =(
I’m confused. Is this disc the same one Pitchfork gave an 8.6 review to last year (see the attached link)? As Porieux says above, something about the disc’s title seems to be mislabelled.
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/44671-space-ritual-collectors-edition
No. This is Space Ritual Vol. 2. Exactly what it sounds like. The Pitchfork review is of Space Ritual. Space Ritual is a live album of Hawkwind playing in Liverpool and London dating to 1972/1973 I believe, Space Ritual Volume 2 is a different live performance from 1972. The first was released in ‘73 and Volume 2 in ‘85. They are definitely different, the version on eMusic is just the second volume (hence the name).
Will the real Space Ritual please stand-up! This download is definitely the Space Ritual Vol.2: Sundown album that was released in 1985, but with added tracks and a different sleeve. It includes some of the music from the original Space Ritual album (see below), which in the UK is still available from EMI as either the 20 track ‘96 remaster, or the 3CD/Audio DVD special that came out last year. “Space Ritual Volume 2 is an archive live album by Hawkwind released in 1985 consisting of a live performance from 1972. The tapes were licensed by Dave Brock to former Hawkwind bass player Dave Anderson for release. This recording is part of the performance that was processed for disc 2 of Space Ritual.” (Wikipedia).
This version of Volume 2 however has some extra live tracks that weren’t on the 1985 album release, but just to confuse things seems to have been reissued using a slightly altered version of the sleeve for Space Ritual Vol.1. And to make things even more complicated the Plastichead download version of this album has very different bonus tracks from the CD version of the same album (according to the Plastichead website the CD extras are: Master Of The Universe, Dreaming, Shouldn’t Do That, Hurry On Sundown, Paranoia, See It As You Really Are, I Do it and Come Home). So where are these extra tracks from? What happened to the tracks on the CD version?
Oh and the track titles for Silver Machine and Sonic Attack are swapped! Great record though….