This CD turns out to be all previously unreleased (on CD) tracks, with alternate ‘studio’ and ‘live’ versions of Fairies classics plus some covers. The two amazing tracks from the legendary ‘Glastonbury Fayre’ album are available here officially for the first time, so you can now delight to the full nineteen minutes of smokin' guitar jamming that is the fantastic 'Uncle Harry's Last Freak Out' without the sound drop-outs that plagued the unofficial version that briefly emerged a while back. Elsewhere you'll find a corking version of their classic single 'The Snake', and a whole lot more on a truly vintage 1970's sounding album.

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A seventy-six minute album that was eagerly anticipated by several genre audiences when it was first released, and it did not disappoint, finding the group moving into more electronic waters, while still retaining their space-rock values of the past. With a core band line-up of spaced-out synths, fuzzed-up guitars, deep powerhouse bass and muscular drums, the album moves through 16 tracks in total, many of which are linked, so you get the drift of what kind of album this is. Overall, it is phenomenal release and easily the bands’ best to date! It is not really comparable with Hawkwind or any of the other space-rock band for that matter, for this group have managed to achieve a sound and feel that is very much their own – An individual style of the genre that works extremely well from start to finish on a simply excellent album.

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Toured with and played on the new space-rock style Nik Turner outings, and this CD is a sonic attack in its own right, featuring a drummer who sounds like he's trying to send the kit through the floor, a guitarist who's taken Brock's sound and cranked it up and made a wall-of-sound with it and revved it to the max, plus a stunningly powerful bassist and a synth guy who's creating some of the most incredible sonic whirlpools yet heard. They tackle and take over the track ‘The Right stuff' from the ‘Capt. Lockheed’ album, and tear through their own brand of space-rock with such intensity it nears meltdown at times. There’s a sense of dynamics on this CD that leaves you feeling quite drained by the end of it all, but what a superb listening pleasure it will have been!

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The Spiral Realms project is the brainchild of ex-High Tide / Hawkwind / Bowie violinist Simon House. It's a trio featuring ex-Hawkwind synth musician Del Dettmar on synths and Nik Turner / Pressurehed musician Len Del Rio on synths and keyboards. ‘Eos’ was their second album, and it is a much more structured work that the ‘G9’ release, but with the same level of power being generated, this music is more obviously melodic and rhythmic, taking the concept on a stage further into what is really an even more accessible musical area. Nevertheless, it's still a gem of a CD and if you like this one you will definitely like the others! 

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Some synth-oriented albums crossover easily to a progressive audience, but in recent times ‘Solar Wind’ must surely be one of the front-runners. This is an amazing album that features some high-flying and emotional violin work, similar in structure to Darryl Way's best exploits with Curved Air and beyond. Spectacular textural arrangements are provided by a duo of synth musicians, and these just fill out the soundscapes to breathtaking effect, taking on board loads of early 1970's Hawkwind-style space effects and so on. Further richly textured and crafted string-synth layers wrap themselves smoothly round the beautiful ten-minute 3^rd track, but it's not all tranquillity, melody and space, because this group can really rock-out, as you'll hear on the final track - A quite stunning rendition of Pink Floyd's 'Interstellar Overdrive' which goes places Floyd never dreamed of. So, in the main, it’s the synth textures, soundscapes and layers that are a wonder to behold – Music that is very symphonic and space-rock influenced, with soaring violin work all around and there’s not a sequencer or drum machine in sight! However, the rhythmic passages do bring a stronger sense of dynamics to the album as a whole, and overall it has to be described as perfect for ‘Synth’, Hawkwind / ‘Space-Rock’ and instrumental symphonic progressive fans alike.

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'G9', was the first Spiral Realms album, and it is a predominantly synth based affair with sound textures that are a mile wide, varied and built to thrill! The opening track is a huge, dense sonic landscapes that’s incredibly powerful, with various melodic sound ships rising up from the maelstrom of synth thunder, cascading and swooping all over the place, with an incredibly resonant sound that booms all around the room and leads on to more thunderous space effects – just like the inner workings of some huge interstellar spacecraft! A mass siren of synths heralds the arrival of the 3^rd track, and this builds and builds into a lush symphonic introduction. Electronics fly all around, and a soaring melody line trips along the top of the powerful undercurrent, then a scorching violin line sizzles across the view, carrying the whole piece into a beautiful, but still powerful new landscape. A grandiose synth line provides welcome relief from the intensity, then an electronic rhythm fires up and the melody line takes off for destinations unknown leaving a misty trail of synth layers in its wake. From there on the remaining tracks develop and carry on with further variations on a similar theme, and mighty good stuff it is too.

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