Fish Rising

Fish Rising Artist: Steve Hillage
Label: EMI/Virgin
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 077778727729
EAN: 0077778727729
ASIN: B000024A86


Release Date: 2004-01-01

Fish Rising


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Tracks:

  1. Solar Musick Suite [Medley: Sun Song (I Love Its Holy Mystery)/Can ...
  2. Fish
  3. Meditation of the Snake
  4. Salmon Song [Medley: Salmon Pool/Solomon's Atlantis Salmon/Swim]
  5. Aftaglid [Medley: Sun Moon Surfing/The Great Wave and the Bo]

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The best psychedelic-prog album ever made.......2006-07-27

After years of being out-of-print on Amazon (the last time I saw it listed was 2001, I think!), it looks like this major gem is finally available again, albeit still as an unremastered import. Steve Hillage's debut solo album, "Fish Rising" did respectable business in the UK and was the beginning of a top 10 solo career. He made the work while still the primary guitarist in Gong, just after the acrimonious departure of founding member and guitarist Daevid Allen (whose early solo work is also worth checking out). The album features every member of Gong except Allen and his loopy girlfriend-singer Shakti Yoni, so it is really an ersatz Gong LP which sounds extremely similar to their peak "Angel's Egg"/"You" period, with perhaps slightly less humor and more focus on the guitarwork (both solos and soundscapes).

The results are absolutely stunning, and make for what is perhaps the finest psychedelic prog album bar none, including all Gong albums (and the copycat band Ozric Tentacles that came after them). The first and longest cut, "Solar Musick Suite", begins as a gentle, dreamy singalong which reminds one of early/mid-70s Floyd, before mutating into an incredible keyboard jam courtesy of guest organist Dave Stewart (of Hatfield And The North), before finally climaxing in a series of Mahavishnu-Orchestra instrumental pyrotechnics that has to be heard to be believed, before a reprise of the opening song. And this may be the *worst* cut on the disc (only the vocals themselves slightly disappoint)!

Next comes "Fish", a short one-minute jazzy interlude heavy on the sound effects of water splashing, before seguing into the sublime "Meditation Of The Snake", a guitar/synth duet that reaches for the stars.

Side two opened with "Salmon Song", perhaps the highlight of the work, with a *killer* psychedelic guitar riff full of the glissando technique patented by Daevid Allen. The singalong verses lead into a dreamy, almost underwater section in which Hillage's guitar mimics the serene sounds of a school of fish, before bursting into an insane solo full of wah-wah effects and

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