Скачать или смотреть Harvey Bainbridge - Red Shift

00:00 Solar Drive Down
09:30 ...And He Smoked His Pipe And Talked To Them Till The Last Whiff And Then His Head Disappeared In A Cloud
18:15 Cygnus Loop
25:48 Blue Giant
29:38 Horseshoe And The Swan
36:11 1000% Solution
46:23 Long Lines At The Double Helix Bar
57:39 Out On The Surface

Taste Records – TASTE 65 [1996]

Review by Keith Henderson
from www.aural-innovations.com

In 1996, Harvey released his second solo CD (following five works with the Alman Mulo Band) entitled 'Red Shift,' that appeared, like all the others, on the Taste label in London (Cat. No. TASTE 65 CD). The few copies that actually made it into the marketplace soon vanished, and as Harvey explains below the label seemed to vanish as well. Attendees to the Strange Daze event and other dates on the tour with Mr. Quimby's Beard and Nik Turner were pleased to discover that Harvey, in conjunction with Strange Trips as the tour promoter, had authorized a CD-R version of 'Red Shift' (and also Alman Mulo's 'Afrodiziac') to be made available.

The virtually all-instrumental 'Red Shift' opens and closes with two of the more anxious pieces of music, "Solar Drive Down" and "Cut on the Surface." More of the album focuses on 'standstill' ambience as on (I'm going to shorten this one) "And he smoked his pipe..." So mellow, the birds singing, waves lapping on the shore... blissful. "Horseshoe and the Swan" is a gentle galactic ride upon a steady marching beat, complete with the sonic swirl adornment of so many Hawkwind tunes past. Shifting cosmic winds and garbled vocal transmissions caught in the aethers are heard elsewhere ("1,000% Solution"). Nothing but a spaceborne extravaganza of sound - suitable for a First Contact with our nearest neighbors in the Milky Way. Hubble went looking for evidence of the Red Shift in the outer reaches of space... and here it was lurking in electronic gadgetry sitting in a recording studio somewhere in England's green and pleasant land.

In my opinion, Harvey made big leaps forward from his solo debut 'Interstellar Chaos' in 1988 to 'Red Shift' in crafting an ambient journey that one needs no patience to endure. I imagine that 'chill out' albums like this find it hard to make themselves "stand up and be counted" amongst the more dynamic spaceROCK put forth by the majority of his Hawkwind family peers. 'Red Shift' is one that should be noted for the delicate beauty it possesses, and it's a shame that it has been such a rarity for these past five years since its initial public offering.