Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

Year of Release: 1996
Label: EMI
Catalog Number: HAWK3
Format: CD
Total Time: 59:06:00

Bobo reviewed several Hawkwind titles in an omnibus review; they are listed separately in the database. This is the third of the five reviews.

I do remember very vividly how I armed myself against arriving enemies with the sleeve of Warrior On The Edge Of Time. When folded open the sleeve became a cardboard shield which illustrated perfectly the great creativity of the band. Founded at the end of '69 as Group X, the band evolved, via the name Hawkwind Zoo, to Hawkwind; this band has always had eyes and ears for detail in order to deliver Art with a big A! That art not only was apparent in their music but also in the sleeve designs. The coming of the compact disc made it difficult to continue to deliver that same Art. The tiny booklet in the kitsch-like cold, static, plastic jewel cases no longer has that Hawkwind feel. Fortunately EMI/Premier has seen how serious this was and has re-released the band's first albums in digipack replicas. They did whatever it took to finally release the complete artwork even including various extras such as concert posters, exclusive photographs, extra sleeve notes and the almost obligatory bonus tracks.

The arrival of Motorhead's Lemmy in '73 is probably the main reason why Doremi Fasol Latido is more of a rock album. "Brainstorm" is a neat example as well as the forgotten single "Urban Guerilla." The Anthony Phillips-like guitar in the intro for "Space Is Deep' creates a nice anti-climax with the rest of the album's material. The success of "Silver Machine" can be felt in "Lord Of Light," which sounds like a copy of the classic. The freaky sax solos from Nik Turner often take the band towards the edge of spacey jazz.

Tracklisting:
Brainstorm (11:32) / Space Is Deep (6:20) / One Change (0:50) / Lord Of Light (6:59) / Down Through The Night (3:04) / Time We Left This World Today (8:43) / The Watcher (4:10) / Urban Guerilla (3:41) / Brainbox Pollution (5:42) / Bonustracks: Lord Of Light (Single Version Edit) (3:59) / Ejection (Previously Unreleased Version) (3:47)
The Album Comes In Multiple Foldout Digipack

Musicians:
Dave Brock - guitar, vocals, synthesizer, organ, 12-string guitar, harmonica, percussion
Nik Turner - sax, flute, vocals, oboe
Lemmy (the Lurch) - bass, vocals
DikMik - audio generator, electronics
Del Dettmaer - synthesizer, keyboards, kalimba
Simon King - drums, percussion

Discography:
Hawkwind (1970)
In Search Of Space (1971)
Doremi Fasol Latido (1972)
Space Ritual (1973)
The Space Ritual Alive (1973)
Hall Of The Mountain Grill (1974)
Warrior On The Edge Of Time (1975)
Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music (1976)
Roadhawks (1976)
Quark, Strangeness And Charm (1977)
Masters Of The Universe (1977)
25 Years On (1978)
PXR5 (1978)
Live Seventy-Nine (1980)
Repeat Performance (1980)
Levitation (1980)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 1 (1980)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 2 (1980)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 3 (1981)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 4 (1981)
Sonic Attack (1981)
Church Of Hawkwind (1982)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 5 (1982)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 6 (1982)
Choose Your Masques (1983)
Text Of Festival (1983)
Zones (1983)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 7 (1983)
The Weird Tapes Volumes 8 (1983)
The Text Of Festival (1983)
Zones (1983)
This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic (1984)
Stonehenge/Do Not Panic (1984)
Space Ritual Volume 2 (1984)
Chronicle Of The Black Sword (1985)
Hawkwind Anthology (1985)
Live Chronicles (1986)
Angels of Death (1986)
Out And Intake (1987)
The Xenon Codex (1988)
Spirit Of The Age (1988)
Space Bandits (1990)
Stasis (The UA Years 1971-1973) (1990)
Palace Springs (1991)
BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert (1991)
Electric Tepee (1992)
The Friday Rock Show Sessions (1992)
Hawklords Live (1992)
California Brainstorm (1992)
Tales From Atom Henge (1992)
Psychedelic Warlords (1992)
It Is The Business Of The Future To Be Dangerous (1993)
The Business Trip (1994)
Alien 4 (1995)
Undisclosed Files Addendum (1995)
Love In Space (1996)
The 1999 Party (1997)
Distant Horizons (1997)
Various - The Elf And The Hawk (1998)
In Your Area (1999) (US only)
Epocheclipse - 30 Year Anthology (3CD box) (1999)
Epocheclipse - The Ultimate Best Of (1CD) (1999)
Family Box Set (1999)
Hawkwind 1997 (1999)
Glastonbury 90 (1999)
Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2 (1999)
Complete '79: COllectors Series Volume 1 (1999)
Year 2000-Codename Hawkwind (1999)
Atomhenge '76 (2000)
Yule Ritual (2001)
Canterbury Fayre 2001 (2002)
Live 1990 (2002)
Masters Of Rock (2002)
Spaced Out In London (2004)
Take Me To Your Leader (2005)
Take Me To Your Future (2006)
The Collection (2006)
Knights Of Space (2008)
Spirit Of The Age (2008)
The Dream Goes On (2008)
Minneapolis, 4th October 1989> (2008)
Reading University, 19th May 1992 (2009)
Live '78 (2009)
Winter Solstice 2005 (2009)
Blood Of The Earth (2010)
Treworgey Tree Fayre 1989 (2010)
At The BBC - 1972 (2010)
No Star Unturned (2011)
Parallel Universe (2011)
Onward (2012)
Spacehawks (2013)
Space Ritual Live (2015)
At The Roundhouse (2017)
The Machine Stops (2016)
Into The Woods (2017)

Genre: Psychedelic/Space Rock

Origin UK

Added: February 19th 2001
Reviewer: John "Bobo" Bollenberg

Artist website: www.hawkwind.com
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Language: english