Fish Rising is the debut solo album by English guitarist Steve Hillage

Steve Hillage

Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...

, recorded and released in 1975 (see 1975 in music

1975 in music

-January–April:*January 2 - New York City U.S. District Court Judge Richard Owen rules that former Beatle John Lennon and his lawyers can have access to Department of Immigration files pertaining to his deportation case....

).

The album was recorded just prior to Hillage's departure from the band Gong

Gong (band)

Gong is a Franco-British progressive/psychedelic rock band formed by Australian musician Daevid Allen. Their music has also been described as space rock. Other notable band members include Allan Holdsworth, Tim Blake, Didier Malherbe, Pip Pyle, Gilli Smyth, Steve Hillage, Francis Moze, Mike Howlett...

, and many of the players on this album are from that band: Bassist Mike Howlett

Mike Howlett

Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....

, drummer Pierre Moerlen

Pierre Moerlen

Pierre Moerlen was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield.-Biography:...

, keyboardist Tim Blake

Tim Blake

Timothy 'Tim' Blake , keyboards, vocalist instrumentalist and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener...

 and saxophonist Didier Malherbe

Didier Malherbe

Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....

.

In 2007, Virgin issued a re-mastered version with two bonus tracks. "Pentagrammaspin" had originally appeared on the Virgin V sampler album in 1975, and the "power trio" backing version of "Aftaglid" consisted of Hillage, Howlett and Moerlen.

Side 1

1. "Solar Musick Suite" – 16:55
   1. "Sun Song (I Love its Holy Mystery)" – 6:15
   2. "Canterbury Sunrise" – 3:25
   3. "Hiram Afterglid Meets the Dervish" – 4:05
   4. "Sun Song (reprise)" – 3:10
2. "Fish" – 1:23
3. "Meditation of the Snake" – 3:10

Side 2

4. "The Salmon Song" – 8:45
   1. "Salmon Pool" – 1:17
   2. "Solomon's Atlantis Salmon" – 2:08
   3. "Swimming with the Salmon" – 1:37
   4. "King of the Fishes" – 3:43
5. "Aftaglid" – 14:46
   1. "Sun Moon Surfing" – 1:36
   2. "The Great Wave and the Boat of Hermes" – 1:51
   3. "The Silver Ladder" – 0:40
   4. "Astral Meadows" – 2:01
   5. "The Lafta Yoga Song" – 2:42
   6. "Glidding" – 2:23
   7. "The Golden Vibe"/"Outglid" – 3:33

Virgin 2007 re-master bonus tracks

6. "Pentagrammaspin" (2006 remix) – 7:46
7. "Aftaglid" (Original "Power Trio" backing track) – 13:00

Personnel

• Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage
  Steve Hillage is an English musician, best known as a guitarist. He is associated with the Canterbury scene and has worked in experimental domains since the late 1960s...
  
   (listed as Steve Hillfish) – lead vocals, electric guitar
• Miquette Giraudy
  Miquette Giraudy
  Miquette Giraudy is a keyboard player and vocalist, best known for her work in Gong and with her partner Steve Hillage. She and Hillage currently form the core of the ambient band System 7.-Film:...
  
   (listed as Bombaloni Yoni) – keyboards, synthesisers
• Mike Howlett
  Mike Howlett
  Mike Howlett is a Fijian-born musician, Grammy Award winning producer and teacher based in the United Kingdom and Australia....
  
   – bass
• Pierre Moerlen
  Pierre Moerlen
  Pierre Moerlen was a French drummer and percussionist, best known for his work with Gong and Mike Oldfield.-Biography:...
  
   – drums, marimba, darbuka
• Tim Blake
  Tim Blake
  Timothy 'Tim' Blake , keyboards, vocalist instrumentalist and composer with both Gong, and Hawkwind. Blake is best known for his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patrice Warrener...
  
   (listed as Moonweed) – synthesisers, tamboura
• Didier Malherbe
  Didier Malherbe
  Didier Antonin Malherbe is a saxophonist and flautist. He was one of the founders of the Canterbury sound band Gong....
  
   (listed as Bloomdido Glid de Breeze) – sax, flute
• Lindsay Cooper
  Lindsay Cooper
  Lindsay Cooper is an English bassoon and oboe player, composer and political activist. Best known for her work with the band Henry Cow, she was also a member of Comus, National Health, News from Babel and David Thomas and the Pedestrians...
  
   – bassoon
• Dave Stewart – organ, piano

External links

• Official Planet Gong website: lyrics, tabulated music