Recommend me a record that's similar to his solo band days....
Recommend me a record that's similar to his solo band days....
There isn't one. Your best approaches are likely Point 3 - Water album and the Mirror System releases. They take a more ambient approach than the core System 7 releases.
The System 7 stuff is quite different to SH's solo material, and although you can hear traces of his glissando guitar style at times, it's pretty much subordinated to the dance'n'trance beats.
If it helps, try the collaboration they did with Rovo - Phoenix Rising. It's a nice bridge between the two aspects of Hillage's music. It was my first experience of his System 7 approach, having grown up with only his classic 70s solo albums, but it grew on me pretty quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-7PNaifRbM
The prequel to the Rovo collaboration - simply titled Phoenix - is worth checking out if you enjoy Phoenix rising.
The Water / Fire albums are much more dance'n'trance but once you get into that frame of mind they're quite listenable as upbeat or chillout music - not albums i play very often admittedly because it can sound a bit repetitive.
One of my fave S7 tunes, a bit of git here and there.
But like the Dr. says, nothing like the solo days. The hippie-dippie-beads-bells-incense-Hare-Krishna-days are gone. Thankfully.
Nothing is similar to his solo work. The collaboration with Rovo has some spacerock touches, however...
Recommendation: "Point 3 - Fire Album" (1994) & "Point 3 - Water Album" (1994)
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Makes me think of the time I posted about the Derek Bailey/Jamie Muir album I had recently bought, on the old AOL Yes board. SOmeone inquires about how it compared to Larks' Tongues In Aspic (because Muir, of course, was on that album). I think my response was something like "It doesn't, because it's a completely different type of music".
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