Open

by Steve Hillage

Open cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 October 1979
  • Label: Virgin
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 39:25
  • Community rating: 3.25/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

With 'Open', the former Gong guitarist began deliberately integrating prominent synthesizers and funk-leaning rhythms into his established space rock sound. The recording marks a transitional phase, hinting heavily at the electronic production pathways he would soon pursue as an innovator in the ambient techno scene.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic

Tracklist

  1. Day After Day (6:17)
  2. Getting In Tune (3:16)
  3. Open (5:16)
  4. Definite Activity (4:43)
  5. Don't Dither Do It (5:04)
  6. The Fire Inside (6:15)
  7. Earthrise (8:34)

Credits

  • Paul Francis - bass guitar
  • Andy Anderson - drums, percussion, gong, vocoder
  • Tim Young - lacquer cut by
  • Dave Stewart - slide guitar, voice, guest, synthesizer, soloist [second moog solo]
  • Miquette Giraudy - synthesizer, voice, vocoder
  • Jean-Philippe Rykiel - guest, synthesizer [prophet], soloist [first moog solo]

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