HAWKWIND Space Ritual 2XLP FOLDOUT SLEEVE+2 INNER SLEEVES UK73 1stP UAD60037/8

	£		23
	$		30

2XLP

ARTIST: HAWKWIND

TITLE: SPACE RITUAL

LABEL + YEAR:  UNITED ARTISTS UAD60037/8; UK 1st PRESS 1973

MATRIX SIDE 1: UAD 60037 A-2U   (RAYS IN THE DEAD WAX)

MATRIX SIDE 2: UAD 60037 B-2U

MATRIX SIDE 3: UAD 60038 A-2U

MATRIX SIDE 4: UAD 60038 B-2U

CONDITION VINYL: VG+ DUE TO A COUPLE OF HAIR-LINES,

PLEASE NOTE: ALL PLAYS VERY CLOSE TO EX

CONDITION SLEEVE: EX GIANT FOLD-OUT UN-LAMINATED SLEEVE 37”X25” APROX WITH TWO PRINTED PSYCHEDELIC INNER SLEEVES EX.

PLEASE NOTE: THE SLEEVE ON THE INSIDE HAS A PRICE WRITTEN IN PEN ON THE EDGE

DESCRIPTION:  CLASSIC SPACE ROCK PROG!!!!

All Music Review by Wilson Neate 

Recorded live in December 1972 and released the following year, Space Ritual is an excellent document of Hawkwind's classic lineup, underscoring the group's status as space rock pioneers. As the quintessential "people's band," Hawkwind carried '60s countercultural idealism into the '70s, gigging constantly, playing wherever there was an audience, and even playing for free on five consecutive days outside the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival. The band's multimedia performances were the perfect accompaniment for exploring inner space and imagining outer space.

While not concerned with rock's material trappings, Hawkwind were, ironically, among the hardest-working groups in Britain, averaging one show every three days during the year preceding these recordings. Given all that practice, it's not surprising that the performances collected here are incredibly tight (although, reportedly, a couple of tracks were edited). Incorporating most of Doremi Fasol Latido, the show for the Space Ritual tour was conceived as a space rock opera, its blend of sci-fi electronics, mesmerizing psy-fi grooves, and heavy, earthbound jamming punctuated with spoken word interludes from astral poet Bob Calvert.

Although his intergalactic musings date the album, coming across now as camp futurism, they still provide fitting atmospheric preambles to Hawkwind's astounding, mind-warping sounds. Calvert's manic recital of Michael Moorcock's "Sonic Attack," for instance, is an exercise in tension that subsequently explodes on the stomping "Time We Left This World Today"; with Nik Turner's otherworldly sax, Dave Brock's guitar distortion, and the earth-moving rhythm section of Simon King and Lemmy, this track offers a blueprint for the album's most potent material. Another standout is "Orgone Accumulator," ten minutes of hypnotic (Wilhelm) Reich & roll that could be the missing link between Booker T. and Stereolab. A 1973 advertisement described Space Ritual as "88 minutes of brain damage"; that characterization still holds true.

Side 1:

EARTH CALLING

BORN TO GO

DOWN THROUGH THE NIGHT

THE AWAKENING

Side 2:

LORD OF LIGHT

THE BLACK CORRIDOR

SPACE IS DEEP

ELECTRONIC NO 1

Side 3:

ORGONE ACCUMULATOR

UPSIDE DOWN

10 SECONDS OF FOREVER

BRAINSTORM

Side 4:

7 BY 7

SONIC ATTACK

TIME WE LEFT THIS WORLD TODAY

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