Despite the success of Silver Machine, their one and only hit in June 1972, Hawkwind refused to flirt with potential pop stardom and the single wasn’t even included on this, their third album five months later. Instead, they trumpeted a collection of “ritualistic space chants, battle hymns and stellar songs of praise”, marking album debuts for Lemmy The Lurch and drummer Simon King. A defining moment in Hawkwind’s iconography thanks to Barney Bubbles’ cover art, Doremi... is also a hefty moment of sonic confirmation, underlined by warped, elephantine 11-minute opener Brainstorm, the brooding Space Is Deep and the spiralling Time We Left This World Today. While the band’s next album, the monolithic live Space Ritual, is often hailed as their definitive statement, Doremi... is a seismic effort that continues to inform the band’s set to this day and, back then, established them further as Ladbroke Grove’s most uncompromising streetwise gang of speed-freaks.
-Phil Alexander-
album art full size. click image.
Side 1
"Brainstorm" (Nik Turner) – 11:33
"Space Is Deep" (Dave Brock) – 5:10
"One Change" (Del Dettmar) – 0:49
Side 2
"Lord of Light" (Brock) – 6:59
"Down Through the Night" (Brock) – 3:04
"Time We Left This World Today" (Brock) – 8:43
"The Watcher" (Ian Kilmister) – 4:00
Bonus tracks on Remasters CD
"Urban Guerrilla" (Robert Calvert/Brock) – 3:41
"Brainbox Pollution" (Brock) – 5:42
"Lord of Light" [Single Version Edit] (Brock) – 3:59
"Ejection" (Calvert) – 3:47
Dave Brock – 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Nik Turner – saxophone, flute, vocals
Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) – bass guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals on "Space Is Deep" and "The Watcher"
Dik Mik (Michael Davies) – Synthesizer
Del Dettmar – Synthesizer
Simon King – drums
Additional musicians:
Robert Calvert – vocals on "Urban Guerilla" and "Ejection"
Paul Rudolph – guitars on "Ejection"
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Title, sleeve and philosophy (wiki)
(inner sleeve left side gate fold)
The package was put together and titled by graphic artist Barney Bubbles and is a continuation on themes he introduced with In Search of Space carried through and culminating in the Space Ritual. The title refers to the assignment of syllables to steps of the diatonic scale (Do-Re-Mi, etc). It alludes to the music of the spheres which Bubbles expounds upon:
"The basic principle for the starship and the space ritual is based on the Pythagorean concept of sound. Briefly, this conceived the Universe to be an immense monochord, with its single string stretched between absolute spirit and at its lowest end - absolute matter. Along this string were positioned the planets of our solar system. Each of these spheres as it rushed through space was believed to sound a certain tone caused by its continuous displacement of the ether. These intervals and harmonies are called 'The Sound Of The Spheres.' The interval between Earth and the fixed stars being the most perfect harmonic interval."
* Do - Mars - red
* Re - Sun - orange
* Mi - Mercury - yellow
* Fa - Saturn - green
* So - Jupiter - blue
* La - Venus - Indigo
* Ti - Moon - violet
(inner sleeve rt side gate fold)
The original cover came in a silver foil sleeve with black print, the front depicting a shield which became an ident for the band, being used on many other album and single covers. The rear cover, inner sleeve and poster depict barbarian-type warriors in futuristic settings. The back cover includes in the legend:
The Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido is a collection of ritualistic space chants, battle hymns and stellar songs of praise as used by the family clan of Hawkwind on their epic journey to the fabled land of Thorasin.
The legend tells of the Hawklords last and defeated stand against the "tyranny of the corrupt forces for law and evil", but the inner sleeve has redemption in the legend:
And in the fullness of time, the prophecy must be fulfilled and the Hawklords shall return to smite the land. And the dark forces shall be scourged, the cities razed and made into parks. Peace shall come to everyone. For is it not written that the sword is key to Heaven and Hell?
the poster included. (i really miss these)
Lord of Light
Despite the success of Silver Machine, their one and only hit in June 1972, Hawkwind refused to flirt with potential pop stardom and the single wasn’t even included on this, their third album five months later. Instead, they trumpeted a collection of “ritualistic space chants, battle hymns and stellar songs of praise”, marking album debuts for Lemmy The Lurch and drummer Simon King. A defining moment in Hawkwind’s iconography thanks to Barney Bubbles’ cover art, Doremi... is also a hefty moment of sonic confirmation, underlined by warped, elephantine 11-minute opener Brainstorm, the brooding Space Is Deep and the spiralling Time We Left This World Today. While the band’s next album, the monolithic live Space Ritual, is often hailed as their definitive statement, Doremi... is a seismic effort that continues to inform the band’s set to this day and, back then, established them further as Ladbroke Grove’s most uncompromising streetwise gang of speed-freaks.
-Phil Alexander-
album art full size. click image.
Side 1
"Brainstorm" (Nik Turner) – 11:33
"Space Is Deep" (Dave Brock) – 5:10
"One Change" (Del Dettmar) – 0:49
Side 2
"Lord of Light" (Brock) – 6:59
"Down Through the Night" (Brock) – 3:04
"Time We Left This World Today" (Brock) – 8:43
"The Watcher" (Ian Kilmister) – 4:00
Bonus tracks on Remasters CD
"Urban Guerrilla" (Robert Calvert/Brock) – 3:41
"Brainbox Pollution" (Brock) – 5:42
"Lord of Light" [Single Version Edit] (Brock) – 3:59
"Ejection" (Calvert) – 3:47
Dave Brock – 6 and 12 string acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals
Nik Turner – saxophone, flute, vocals
Lemmy (Ian Kilmister) – bass guitar, acoustic guitar and vocals on "Space Is Deep" and "The Watcher"
Dik Mik (Michael Davies) – Synthesizer
Del Dettmar – Synthesizer
Simon King – drums
Additional musicians:
Robert Calvert – vocals on "Urban Guerilla" and "Ejection"
Paul Rudolph – guitars on "Ejection"
taste rock here
GET ROCK HERE
Title, sleeve and philosophy (wiki)
(inner sleeve left side gate fold)
The package was put together and titled by graphic artist Barney Bubbles and is a continuation on themes he introduced with In Search of Space carried through and culminating in the Space Ritual. The title refers to the assignment of syllables to steps of the diatonic scale (Do-Re-Mi, etc). It alludes to the music of the spheres which Bubbles expounds upon:
"The basic principle for the starship and the space ritual is based on the Pythagorean concept of sound. Briefly, this conceived the Universe to be an immense monochord, with its single string stretched between absolute spirit and at its lowest end - absolute matter. Along this string were positioned the planets of our solar system. Each of these spheres as it rushed through space was believed to sound a certain tone caused by its continuous displacement of the ether. These intervals and harmonies are called 'The Sound Of The Spheres.' The interval between Earth and the fixed stars being the most perfect harmonic interval."
* Do - Mars - red
* Re - Sun - orange
* Mi - Mercury - yellow
* Fa - Saturn - green
* So - Jupiter - blue
* La - Venus - Indigo
* Ti - Moon - violet
(inner sleeve rt side gate fold)
The original cover came in a silver foil sleeve with black print, the front depicting a shield which became an ident for the band, being used on many other album and single covers. The rear cover, inner sleeve and poster depict barbarian-type warriors in futuristic settings. The back cover includes in the legend:
The Saga of Doremi Fasol Latido is a collection of ritualistic space chants, battle hymns and stellar songs of praise as used by the family clan of Hawkwind on their epic journey to the fabled land of Thorasin.
The legend tells of the Hawklords last and defeated stand against the "tyranny of the corrupt forces for law and evil", but the inner sleeve has redemption in the legend:
And in the fullness of time, the prophecy must be fulfilled and the Hawklords shall return to smite the land. And the dark forces shall be scourged, the cities razed and made into parks. Peace shall come to everyone. For is it not written that the sword is key to Heaven and Hell?
the poster included. (i really miss these)
Lord of Light
