L

by Steve Hillage

L cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 24 September 1976
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 44:00
  • Community rating: 3.64/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Produced by Todd Rundgren and backed by members of his Utopia ensemble, former Gong guitarist Steve Hillage delivered a phenomenal, highly exploratory solo masterwork. 'L' is a wonderfully warm, deeply meditative progressive space-rock album, heavily featuring intensely psychedelic guitar suites and deeply spiritual, surprisingly funky Eastern-tinged jazz fusion textures.

Genres

Descriptors: suite, progressive

Tracklist

  1. Hurdy Gurdy Man (6:33)
  2. Hurdy Gurdy Glissando (9:00)
  3. Electrick Gypsies (6:26)
  4. Om Nama Shivaya (3:33)
  5. Lunar Musick Suite (11:57)
  6. It's All Too Much (6:28)

Credits

  • Steve Hillage - primary artist, guitar, synthesizer [guitar, arp, ems], voice, shenai, written-by
  • Kasim Sulton - bass
  • Roger Powell - computer [r.m.i. keyboard computer], synthesizer [moog], piano [acoustic]
  • Ken Dolman - design [cover]
  • John Wilcox - drums
  • John Holbrook - engineer [extra engineering]
  • Utopia - featuring
  • Sonja Malkine - hurdy gurdy [15th century]
  • Clayton Kenny - photography by [cover]
  • Todd Rundgren - producer, engineer
  • Larry Karush - tabla
  • Don Cherry - trumpet, trumpet [tibetian], temple bells [tibetan bells], tambura, voice
  • Miquette Giraudy - voice [lady], other [isis vibes], written-by
  • Donovan Phillips Leitch - written-by
  • Uma Nanda - lyrics by
  • K.S. Narula - music by
  • George Harrison - written-by

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