Hawkwind - Space Ritual - 1973- 12" Vinyl (Double) - UA Records UAD60037
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Hawkwind - Space Ritual - 1973 - 12" Vinyl (DOUBLE) - UA Records UAD60037.
Pioneering space rock for stoners.
Released in 1973 this live album is an excellent record of the classic Hawkwind line up.
Review
If anything could ever satisfactorily record the work of a drug fuelled, commune-dwelling jam band with a large breasted dancer, then Space Ritual was the Hawkwind album that did so. Trance-inducing occasionally nightmarish, and filled with some inspirational moments, the album was a turbulent ride through psychedlic experience. Impressively it still is. Fashion has undoubtedly come and gone around this music - but like a footprint on the moon, this remains as strongly defined as it did when it was first made. **** -- Uncut July 2007
There can never be another album quite like Space Ritual. Captured live, for many, it's Hawkwind's very apex - the sound of your brain being fried. Originally edited into four glorious sides, it now spills across two extended discs with bonus tracks. From hereon in, Hawkwind were permanently cast as sonic overlords with wit and intelligence just as strong as the substances coursing through their veins. There was always something of the whiff of Campari about poet and sometime frontman Robert Calvert among the heavy sweating hairies, as if he was puffing a cigarette through a holder, observing, detailing. The doom metal of Time We Left This World Today slamming in after Calvert's Richard III-isms on Sonic Attack still thrills. Space Ritual is as central to the 70s as The Dark Side of the Moon of the three-day week. ***** -- Record Collector July 2007
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