Fish Rising

Fish Rising
Studio album by
Steve Hillage
Released 11 April 1975
Recorded September 1974 and January 1975
Studio The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell; Manor Mobile
Genre Progressive rock, space rock
Length 44:59 (Original)
64:45 (Remaster)
Label Virgin
Producer Steve Hillage, Simon Heyworth
Steve Hillage chronology
Fish Rising
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Fish Rising is the debut solo album by English guitarist Steve Hillage, recorded and released in 1975.

The album was recorded just prior to Hillage's departure from the band Gong, and many of the players on this album are from that band: Bassist Mike Howlett, drummer Pierre Moerlen, keyboardist Tim Blake and saxophonist Didier Malherbe.

In 2007, Virgin issued a re-mastered version with two bonus tracks. "Pentagrammaspin" had originally appeared on the Virgin V sampler album in 1975, and the "power trio" backing version of "Aftaglid" consisted of Hillage, Howlett and Moerlen.

Track listing

All music composed and arranged by Steve Hillage, lyrics by Hillage and Miquette Giraudy; Fish co-arranged by Dave Stewart

Side 1

  1. "Solar Musick Suite" – 16:55
    1. "Sun Song (I Love its Holy Mystery)" – 6:15
    2. "Canterbury Sunrise" – 3:25
    3. "Hiram Afterglid Meets the Dervish" – 4:05
    4. "Sun Song (reprise)" – 3:10
  2. "Fish" – 1:23
  3. "Meditation of the Snake" – 3:10

Side 2

  1. "The Salmon Song" – 8:45
    1. "Salmon Pool" – 1:17
    2. "Solomon's Atlantis Salmon" – 2:08
    3. "Swimming with the Salmon" – 1:37
    4. "King of the Fishes" – 3:43
  2. "Aftaglid" – 14:46
    1. "Sun Moon Surfing" – 1:36
    2. "The Great Wave and the Boat of Hermes" – 1:51
    3. "The Silver Ladder" – 0:40
    4. "Astral Meadows" – 2:01
    5. "The Lafta Yoga Song" – 2:42
    6. "Glidding" – 2:23
    7. "The Golden Vibe"/"Outglid" – 3:33

Virgin 2007 re-master bonus tracks

  1. "Pentagrammaspin" (2006 remix) – 7:46
  2. "Aftaglid" (Original "Power Trio" backing track) – 13:00

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