Label: Virgin Records (UK), CDVR2777
Style: Funk Rock, Pop Rock
Country: Chingford, Essex, England (2 August 1951)
Time: 53:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 317 Mb
Those
in tune with being transported through music will want to station
themselves near the speakers for Motivation Radio. Call it the "light
side of the moon," this album draws the listener into its own astral
plane with a glossy and gauzy sound similar to Pink Floyd without the
darkness, or Alan Parsons Project without the dorkiness. The new
age/space ideology isn't far removed from Gong's original alternate
reality (remember the Octave Doctors?), spelled out best during the
album's true point of transmigration, "Saucer Surfing." Hillage's guitar
work is typically transcendent, Giraudy's keyboards a vital component
(note the Doctor Who-isms of "Searching for the Spark"), and Joe
Blocker's drums a frequent breath of change. Steve Hillage doesn't have
the vocal presence to reach out to listeners; at best, he can meet them
halfway. Motivation Radio works as well as it does because it draws
listeners to that halfway point (and beyond), steering them with
spiritual signposts and rewarding them with rapturous music. It's a
remarkably smooth journey, more accessible than L, if equally cosmic.
Again, it was an idiomatic cover tune, "Not Fade Away," that became the
single; though an odd way to end the record, it wouldn't have made any
sense in the middle. The rest of the record is a contiguous collection
of music. So tune in and bliss out.
(allmusic.com/album/motivation-radio-mw0000198967)
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