Xitintoday
March 13th, 2010 Posted in Music Tracks
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Album Description
Originally released on Charisma in 1978, Xitintoday is a true classic from ex-Hawkwind Nik Turner. Featuring Mike Howlett from Gong, Steve Hillage and Tim Blake, Xitintoday is a nearly indescribable mix of eastern Egyptian influence mixed with the Space Rock overkill of the Hawkwind sound. Incredibly sought after by collectors and unavailable in it’s original form for many years, Xitintoday features bonus tracks and deluxe packaging, including reproductions of t… More >>
March 13th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
If your a fan of Hawkind from 1970-1976 and think Hawkwind isnt the same without any sax or fluit, then your probally looking at this album becuase Nik Turner just rocks. This album may not be full of catchy beats or anything like that but its got to be one of the best albums I ever heard. You can get a awsome lesson on Ancient Egypt while you here some awsome space rock, and the bonus track was actually recorded in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Rating: 5 / 5
March 13th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
First off I got this CD by mistake! I thought I had bought Trans Am’s Futureworld and in the end had got this by accident. But I’m pretty open towards any kind of music within reason. Having said that I put this on and in all honesty, this music absolutely scared me……I had expected sort of jokey electro-rock but instead was getting ritualistic Ancient Egyptian tribal music. It was a completely numbing experience. The sparse flute melded together with spidery bass guitar work and hints of electronics and so on created this haunting and haunted past that created the vision of the glory days of the pyramids, of Tutankhamun and other such tales that have passed into legend. Added to that that the vocals are spoken in a spooky, distorted way that and it completes the effect that it is one of the most chilling things you’ll ever hear. Your blood chills when listening to this.
It’s an astounding album, quite astonishing that music can conjured up quite like this. It sounds unlike anything that came before it and since it was first conceived. In all, it sounds totally removed from any sense of time that you can identify with. It exists completely within it’s own realm. It makes absolutely no concessions to anything or anyone. It just is. There’s no other way of putting it, it lives outside of what we are accustomed to. And for that to happen, takes some courage, guts and determination. If you want a record that’s outside the usual and quite unlike anything else, this is the one for you. In the end, it’s the most beautiful mistake you could ever make!
Rating: 4 / 5