Fantastic document of swirling space rock
Warren W. Nelson | Mooresville, NC USA | 07/29/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"though 'Fish Rising' might be called Steve Hillage's finest solo album, it bears remarkable influence from Gong and contains most of the Gong lineup, relying on their pool of resources to perform that album, with composition ranging back to his days with Khan. this album , however, after finding his footing with 'L' and 'motivation rising' finds Hillage's compositional skill flowering with a consistently balanced performance as well as dynamic and progressively spacey instrumentation throughout on synthesizer and his wonderful and amazing guitar work. all the songs are strong and enhance the total sequence and progression of the music on this cd. this is another landmark in the field of space rock and is practically the blueprint for the career of the contemporary space/psychedelic band Ozric Tentacles. a stratospheric performance."