HAWKWIND Self Titled ITALIAN Gatefold LIBERTY LP 1970 LBS83348 A-2U/B-3U Matrix
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Very Rare Original ITALIAN deleted LP on LIBERTY RECORDS ~ Classic debut LP first Italian pressing A-2U/B-3U Matrix with a first pressing gatefold sleeve! An absolute must for any serious collector of HAWKWIND!
nformed by both the innocence of psychedelia and the pre-experience of punk, Hawkwind’s self-titled debut was unlike anything they would ever record again. For a start, the overall sound was an organic filigree moss veil, reinforced by the loud gatefold photo depicting this earliest incarnation jamming in front of an incomplete rendering of Stonehenge comprised of HIWATT amplifiers. This original lineup assembled by guitarist/vocalist Dave Brock with the very specific purpose of approximating a chemically induced, mind expansive odyssey in sound was: Nik Turner (sax, flute), John Harrison (bass), Huw Lloyd Langton (guitar), Terry Ollis (drums) and Dikmik (audio generator). On this album, Brock’s musical incapacities would in no way hold him back (his still-evolving electric style shored up by second guitarist Huw Lloyd Langton and ex-Pretty Things guitarist Dick Taylor, who co-produced the album with the group) although his rudimentary e-guitar scratchings are in complete contrast to his by far stronger acoustic style which was reinforced by years of busking.
What the group created here was rough-hewn, down-market post-psychedelic space rock akin to an utterly skint Pink Floyd on downers. According to the liner notes ‘We started out trying to freak people (trippers), now we are trying to levitate their minds, in a nice way, without acid, with ultimately a complete audio-visual thing.’ The album was based around their 40 minute live improvisation “The Sunshine Special” which was re-named (and separated into five tracks without any musical breaks apart from the side flip) for the album. Book-ending these tracks are the more conventional busking-era Brock songs that were issued as Hawkwind's debut single: “Hurry On Sundown” and “Mirror Of Illusion.”“The Reason Is?” begins the odyssey with the ringing of cymbals and droning moans that set up “Be Yourself,” a dry though hard freak-out set against a simple, garagey “Syncopated Pandemonium” while all instruments play with democratically-determined sonic space as a bounty of air surrounds all. Nobody wants to take the lead until Dikmik starts throwing in highly disconcerting stabs of audio generator whooshes and the pace begins to climb ever upward, both guitarists scratching along as best they can under a post-“S.F. Sorrow” Dick Taylor guitar solo. They head back into the lyrics after more general grooving, and ends with a terrifying, blood-rushing squeal from the audio generator. But once into “Paranoia Part 1,” Hawkwind’s collective pulse and breathing starts again, quietly accelerating until the main guitar riff enters, a fusing of “Dazed And Confused” and “In The Court Of The Crimson King” in a bad trip “Bolero” manner. In fact, it continues to scale the walls of its own paranoid wall until it grinds to a gimmicky halt as though the turntable, along with the collective mind of the band, has just been blown to bits. “Paranoia Part 2” starts off side 2 calmly, although several hundred miles into further mind-tripping paranoia and general acid twistedness. Though far more becalmed than “Part 1,” a smothering and uneasy near-silence of hissing vocals appear and fall away as random bass plonks appear with all the driving force of a dripping faucet. A chant of “HIGHER!…HIGHER!…HIGHER…” starts up, Dikmik throwing in occasional echoed and smearing audio generator burps whenever the vibe suits, and then the riff from the previous section returns, corkscrewing through the whole thing and turning everything downward only to repeat upward again like an M.C. Escher staircase to nowhere. Further disembodied, wordless voices appear, surrounding the last downered chords as all dissolves into further breathing and whispering that creates an ecstatic moaner and a half. Pretty soon, however, the exhausted group body begins to re-animate into the instrumental “Seeing It As You Really Are” and the paranoia finally passes into reaffirming jamming with the two rhythm guitars referring to Dick Taylor’s soloing into a caduceus-like formation against further audio generator manipulations. They begin to appear with greater frequency, even when the jam practically grinds to a halt. There is a final build where they all just go for broke with speed, freaking out and just wind up screaming over beaten cymbals and unskillful yet willful guitar lines. “Mirror Of Illusion” closes the album with stereo-panned maracas, out of tune 12-string and John Harrison’s flat-footed yet faux-groovy bass playing in a similar sunshiney/outdoorsy groove as the opener of the LP, “Hurry On Sundown.” But for all the optimism, a vibe of post-trip, druggy unease works its way to the surface, as though all the previous revelations of colour have assembled into patterns of cleared confusion. Of course, a final Dikmik audio generator signature signs off the LP.
Unhindered by their lack of proficiency, Hawkwind created an album that was not a masterpiece for all its obvious flaws, but BECAUSE of them.
(from The Book Of Seth)
Artist: HAWKWIND
Title: HAWKWIND
Format: LP
Country: ITALY
Label: Liberty – LBS 83348
Year: 1970
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Record: VG++/EX Sleeve: VG++/EX-
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