Name: Dusseldorf
Brand: Steve Hillage

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SMACD1146

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-04-05

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0636551714624

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Artist

Steve Hillage

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

Madfish

The pioneering guitarist’s live concert from 1979 on mid-price double CD. Includes the only known live recording of “Talking to the Sun” and comes complete with a 16-page booklet.

Some gigs are simply meant to be out there- even if they take decades to make it into our hands. This is, without doubt, one of those concerts; recorded at the Philips Halle, Dusselsdorf on the 28th March 1979 during the Live Herald Tour. This new ‘Dusselsdorf’ double CD showcases the Steve Hillage Band’s prowess with excellent sound quality- a quality so high that you’ll forget that it’s a live recording until the applause. This is a band at the height of its powers, with Steve in great voice throughout, and most obviously utterly enjoying themselves. The vibe is completely infectious and doesn’t let up throughout the entire gig.

Featuring Steve’s own adventurous compositions and covers of Beatles and Donovan classics, all are approached with a joie-de-vivre and high sensibility. The trademark heady combination of vibrant psychedelic rock interwoven with an irresistible full-blooded groove, interspersed with the smoothest of deep-space synth/guitar trips gathers all before it in a tsunami of uplifting music. With the benefit of hindsight, Steve’s musical trajectory from the crea-tive space rifts of Gong to the trance and techno of System 7 is made instantly clear.

Dusseldorf

Music GB