In Your Area
Encyclopedia
Hawkwind in Your Area is the twenty-second live
/studio album
by the English
space rock
group Hawkwind
.
The live side was recorded during the group's 1997 tour to promote the Distant Horizons
album. The studio tracks were recorded during 1998.
The group had ceased business dealings with former manager Douglas Smith who had been running the record label Emergency Broadcast System Records
, and as a consequence found themselves without an outlet in Europe for their recordings. They had, however, a long standing deal with Griffin Music
in North America for licensing the EBS material, so this album received a North American release in January 1999, but no European equivalent. Later, in 2000, as Brock started to make archive material available for release in the UK through Voiceprint Records
, it received a belated UK release.
with:
Live album
A live album is a recording consisting of material recorded during stage performances using remote recording techniques, commonly contrasted with a studio album...
/studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
by the English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
space rock
Space rock
Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...
group Hawkwind
Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....
.
The live side was recorded during the group's 1997 tour to promote the Distant Horizons
Distant Horizons
Distant Horizons is the twenty-first studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1997.Towards the end of 1996, Jerry Richards, who had been contributing lead guitar to some live dates and recording sessions, joined the group permanently. Disatisfied with the musical direction...
album. The studio tracks were recorded during 1998.
The group had ceased business dealings with former manager Douglas Smith who had been running the record label Emergency Broadcast System Records
Emergency Broadcast System Records
Emergency Broadcast System Records was a record label setup in UK in the early 1990s by Hawkwind and Doug Smith.-External links:* - full catalogue...
, and as a consequence found themselves without an outlet in Europe for their recordings. They had, however, a long standing deal with Griffin Music
Griffin Music
Griffin Music was an independent record label created in 1989 in Toronto, Canada by author/publisher Robert Godwin. It was originally created to finance and record the second album of Led Zeppelin tribute act, Michael White & The White...
in North America for licensing the EBS material, so this album received a North American release in January 1999, but no European equivalent. Later, in 2000, as Brock started to make archive material available for release in the UK through Voiceprint Records
Voiceprint Records
Voiceprint Records is a company and record label based in England, founded in 1990 by Rob Ayling. They specialise in re-releasing old material, especially progressive rock, but also have new releases, all under the Voiceprint and other imprints....
, it received a belated UK release.
Track listing
- "Brainstorm" (Nik TurnerNik TurnerNik Turner is a British musician, best known as a founding member of space rock pioneers Hawkwind. Turner plays saxophones, flute, sings and is a composer...
) / "Hawkwind in Your Area" (Dave BrockDave BrockDavid Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
, Captain Rizz) – 11:08 - "Alchemy" (Richards, Chadwick) – 2:46
- "Love in Space" (Brock) / "Rat Race" (Brock, Rizz) – 5:51
- "Aerospace-Age Inferno" (Robert CalvertRobert CalvertRobert Calvert was a writer, poet, and musician.-Biography:Born Robert Newton Calvert in Pretoria, South Africa, Calvert's parents moved to England when he was two years of age and later attended school in London and Margate. He began his career by writing poetry and in 1967 formed a Street...
) – 5:32 - "First Landing on Medusa" (Calvert, Brock) – 1:41
- "I Am the Reptoid" (Tree) – 3:19
- "The Nazca" (Brock) – 0:44
- "Hippy" (Tree, Richards) – 5:45
- "Prairie" (Tree, Richards) – 2:39
- "Your Fantasy" (Tree, Brock, Chadwick, Richards) – 5:04
- "Luxotica" (Tree, Chadwick, Richards) – 3:09
- "Diana Park" (Brock) – 4:21
Personnel
- Dave BrockDave BrockDavid Anthony "Dave" Brock is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He plays electric guitar, synthesizer, bass and oscillators. He is best known as being one of the founders and musical focus of the English space rock group Hawkwind...
– electric guitarElectric guitarAn electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
, keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Jerry Richards – electric guitar
- Ron Tree – vocals, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Richard Chadwick – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
with:
- Captain Rizz – vocals
- Crum (Julian Crimmins) – Keyboards