Space Shanty
The one album by Khan, the band Hillage formed before he joined Gong.
Steve Hillage, 1972
- Released
- 1972
- Studio
- Command, Olympic and Decca Tollington Park
- Label
- Deram
- Producer
- Neil Slaven
Space Shanty was issued in 1972 by Deram in a gatefold sleeve. It was produced by Neil Slaven and engineered at Command, Olympic and Decca's Tollington Park studios. Hillage played guitar and sang, Dave Stewart played organ, piano, marimba and celesta, Nick Greenwood played bass and sang, and Eric Peachey played drums. Songs include Stranded and Driving to Amsterdam. Hillage later said that a lot of the later Khan material ended up on Fish Rising.
Track listing
- Space Shanty (including The Cobalt Sequence and March of the Sine Squadrons)
- Stranded (including Effervescent Psycho Novelty No. 5)
- Mixed Up Man of the Mountains
- Driving to Amsterdam
- Stargazers
- Hollow Stone (including Escape of the Space Pilots)
Personnel
- Steve Hillage guitar, vocals
- Dave Stewart organ, piano, marimba, celesta
- Nick Greenwood bass, vocals
- Eric Peachey drums
More from Steve Hillage
Fish Rising (1975), L (1976), Motivation Radio (1977), Green (1978), Rainbow Dome Musick (1979), Open (1979), Live Herald (1979)
Sources
- Khan (band), Wikipedia
- Space Shanty (Deram SDL-R 11, 1972), Discogs
- Space Shanty, Discogs
- Steve Hillage: Searching for the Spark, Goldmine (2016-10-21)