Green

Guitar synthesizer, vocoders and pyramid fish, co-produced by Nick Mason: the record many critics call his best.
Steve Hillage, 1978

Released: 14 April 1978
Recorded: December 1977 to February 1978
Studio: Ridge Farm, Dorking; Matrix and Britannia Row, London
Label: Virgin
Producer: Nick Mason and Steve Hillage
Length: 46:09

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Green was written alongside Motivation Radio in spring 1977; the two were planned as a red album and a green one. Pink Floyd's Nick Mason co-produced it, the last outside record he worked on, with John Wood engineering. Hillage added a Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer to his glissando and echo guitar, Giraudy played ARP and EMS synthesizers and a vocoder, and the album was split into a Green Rock side and an OM Rock side, the second opening with Unidentified (Flying Being). The first five thousand copies came on translucent green vinyl, in a John Michell cover of a fish shaped like a pyramid. It reached thirty in Britain. Team Rock and Malcolm Dome both named it his best solo album.

Track listing

Sea Nature6:43
Ether Ships5:02
Musik of the Trees4:53
Palm Trees (Love Guitar)5:19
Unidentified (Flying Being)4:30
U.F.O. Over Paris3:11
Leylines to Glassdom4:06
Crystal City3:36
Activation Meditation1:03
The Glorious Om Riff7:46

Personnel

Steve Hillage vocals, guitar, glissando guitar, guitar synthesizer, Moog
Miquette Giraudy synthesizers, vocoder, voice
Curtis Robertson Jr. bass
Joe Blocker drums
Nick Mason drums on Leylines to Glassdom, producer

More from Steve Hillage

Fish Rising (1975), L (1976), Motivation Radio (1977), Rainbow Dome Musick (1979)

Sources

Green (Steve Hillage album), Wikipedia
Green (Virgin, 1978), Discogs
Nine Steve Hillage albums to listen to, Louder