Hawkwind Friends & Relations: Cosmic Travelers CD - Import

This release includes 75 minutes of music that centers around the mighty Hawkwind, friends & relations. Introducing bands from the US plus UZO, The Deep Fix and Hawkwind. Most of the tracks have never been released on CD before. Anagram.

Flicknife's Friends & Relations series has been a sprawling mass of labyrinthine tracks and trails through the Hawkwind family tree (a strange and sometimes delightful journey in its own right). This set culls the detritus that they've spread out over three discs and distills the best material (arguably) into one powerhouse weird fest. There's Robert Calvert's "The Right Stuff" from his Pressurized project as well as Hawkwind's own "We Do It" and the Hawklords' "Time Of..." There's even a Helios Creed cut in "The Master." In all it's still a mixed bag, but it's at least a very focused one and one that the more casual collector will find very useful. But is there such a thing as a "casual" Hawkwind collector? ~ Thom Jurek

Personnel: Tommy Grenas (vocals, guitar, keyboards, sampler); Dave Brock (vocals, guitar, synthesizer); Nik Turner (vocals, flute, saxophone); Beci (vocals, percussion); Lemmy (vocals); Doran Shelley (guitar, lyre); Helios Creed, Anthony Who? (guitar, synthesizer); DeFM, Paul Holden (guitar); Simon House (electric violin); Paul Fox (keyboards, synthesizer, programming, loops); Len del Rio (keyboards, programming, electronics, loops, sampler); Steve Swindells (keyboards); Del Dettmar (synthesizer, midi); Z. Sylver (synthesizer, sampler); Dikmik (synthesizer); Mychael Merrill (drums, percussion, sampler); Paul Della Pelle, Terry Ollis, Simon King (drums); Brandon Labelle (percussion, loops).