Choose Your Masques
Choose Your Masques | ||||
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Studio album by Hawkwind | ||||
Released | 29 October 1982 | |||
Recorded | June–July 1982 | |||
Studio | Rockfield Studios, Wales | |||
Genre | Space rock | |||
Length | 43:57 | |||
Label | RCA/Active | |||
Producer | Hawkwind and Pat Moran | |||
Hawkwind chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Allmusic | [1] |
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [2] |
Choose Your Masques is the thirteenth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1982. It spent five weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at No. 29.[3]
The group's line-up for this album remained unchanged from the previous Church of Hawkwind album, although for this recording the group started to heavily use drum machines and drum loops, with most of Griffin's contributions being relegated to disjointed drum fills. Griffin was unhappy with this role, and group-leader Dave Brock was dissatisfied with Griffin's timekeeping, so they mutually agreed to part company, although Griffin reluctantly agreed to fulfil the scheduled tour commitments.[4]
The album was recorded in June and July 1982 at Rockfield Studios. Science fiction author Michael Moorcock contributed lyrics to the album, but credited his wife Lynda Steele in order to bypass his music publisher Douglas Smith with whom he was in dispute. The lyrics to "Fahrenheit 451", which had been written by former lead singer Robert Calvert and originally recorded but unused in 1978, were based on Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451.
The album makes use of samples, featuring Ian Holm from a 1981 BBC Radio 4 serialisation of The Lord of the Rings on "Dream Worker", and the spoken introduction of The Outer Limits on "Void City". "Silver Machine" and "Psychedelic Warlords" are re-recordings of the early 1970s singles which were not originally intended for inclusion on the album.
The group undertook a 29-date UK tour in November and December to promote the album, with support from the Spanish rock group Barón Rojo.[5] Saxophonist and singer Nik Turner rejoined the group for this tour. Recordings from this tour have been issued on the albums Zones (1983), Out & Intake (1987) and Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2 (1999). A full double album recorded on the tour was finally released in 2016 as Coded Languages.
Track listing
Side 1
- "Choose Your Masks" (Michael Moorcock, Dave Brock) – 5:28
- "Dream Worker" (Harvey Bainbridge) – 4:58
- "Arrival in Utopia" (Moorcock, Brock) – 5:47
- "Utopia" (Brock) – 3:00
Side 2
- "Silver Machine" (Robert Calvert, Brock) – 4:22
- "Void City" (Bainbridge, Brock) – 6:48
- "Solitary Mind Games" (Marion Lloyd-Langton, Huw Lloyd-Langton) – 3:58
- "Fahrenheit 451" (Calvert, Brock) – 4:48
- "The Scan" (Bainbridge, Brock) – 1:02
- "Waiting for Tomorrow" (H. Lloyd-Langton, M. Lloyd-Langton) – 3:46
EBS/Griffin bonus tracks
- "Silver Machine" (Calvert, Brock) – 7:25
- "Psychedelic Warlords" (Brock) – 4:52
Atomhenge bonus tracks
- "Psychedelic Warlords" (Brock) - 5:02
- "Silver Machine" [full version] (Brock, Calvert) - 3:46
Atomhenge bonus disc
- "Void City" [alternate version] (Brock, Bainbridge) - 6:38
- "Candle Burning" (H. Lloyd-Langton, M. Lloyd-Langton) - 2:48
- "5/4" (Bainbridge, H. Lloyd-Langton) - 3:21
- "Waiting For Tomorrow" [alternate mix] (H. Lloyd-Langton, M. Lloyd-Langton) - 3:43
- "Radio Telepathy" (Brock) - 5:44
- "Dream Worker" [extended version] (Brock) - 2:34
- "Lato" (Brock, Bainbridge) - 5:34
- "Oscillations" (Brock) - 2:01
- "Recent Reports" (Brock) - 5:48
- "Lato Percussive Electro" (Brock) - 3:45
- "Solitary Mind Games" [alternate version] (H. Lloyd-Langton, M. Lloyd-Langton) - 5:06
- "Silver Machine" [short single version] (Brock, Calvert) - 2:58
Personnel
- Hawkwind
- Dave Brock – electric guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Huw Lloyd-Langton – electric guitar, vocals
- Harvey Bainbridge – bass guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Martin Griffin – drums
- Guest musician
- Nik Turner – saxophone on "Void City"
Credits
- Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth – June & July 1982. Produced with Pat Moran.
- Sleeve designed by Andrew Christian and Terry Oakes.
Charts
Chart (1982) | Peak position |
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UK Albums (OCC)[6] | 29 |
Release history
- October 1982: RCA/Active, RCALP 6055, UK vinyl
- October 1996: Emergency Broadcast System Records, EBSCD124, UK CD
- October 1996: Griffin Music, GCD613-2, USA CD
- October 2010: Atomhenge (Cherry Red) Records, ATOMCD2026, UK 2CD
References
- ^ Allmusic review
- ^ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195313734.
- ^ "Hawkwind". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ Clerk, Carol (2004). The Saga of Hawkwind. Omnibus Press. pp. 249–52. ISBN 1-84449-832-8.
- ^ Youles, Steve. "Gig and Set Lists 1982". Starfarer's hawkwind Page. self-published. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
- ^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved October 30, 2023.
External links
- Choose Your Masques at Atomhenge Records
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- Dave Brock
- Richard Chadwick
- Magnus Martin
- Thighpaulsandra
- Doug MacKinnon
- Nik Turner
- Dik Mik
- Huw Lloyd-Langton
- Thomas Crimble
- Del Dettmar
- Simon King
- Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister
- Robert Calvert
- Simon House
- Alan Powell
- Paul Rudolph
- Adrian Shaw
- Harvey Bainbridge
- Steve Swindells
- Keith Hale
- Ginger Baker
- Andy Anderson
- Robert Heaton
- Alan Davey
- Clive Deamer
- Bridget Wishart
- Ron Tree
- Mr Dibs
- Tim Blake
- Niall Hone
- Hawkwind
- In Search of Space
- Doremi Fasol Latido
- Hall of the Mountain Grill
- Warrior on the Edge of Time
- Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- 25 Years On (as Hawklords)
- PXR5
- Levitation
- Sonic Attack
- Church of Hawkwind
- Choose Your Masques
- The Chronicle of the Black Sword
- The Xenon Codex
- Space Bandits
- Electric Tepee
- It Is the Business of the Future to Be Dangerous
- White Zone (as Psychedelic Warriors)
- Alien 4
- Distant Horizons
- In Your Area
- Spacebrock
- Take Me to Your Leader
- Take Me to Your Future
- Blood of the Earth
- Onward
- The Machine Stops
- Into the Woods
- Road to Utopia
- All Aboard the Skylark
- Carnivorous (as Hawkwind Light Orchestra)
- Somnia
- The Future Never Waits
- Stories from Time and Space
- The Weird Tapes
- Hawkwind, Friends and Relations
- The Text of Festival
- Zones
- Bring Me the Head of Yuri Gagarin
- Space Ritual Volume 2
- Hawkwind Anthology
- Out & Intake
- BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert
- The Friday Rock Show Sessions
- Hawklords Live
- California Brainstorm
- Undisclosed Files Addendum
- The 1999 Party
- Glastonbury 90
- Choose Your Masques: Collectors Series Volume 2
- Complete '79: Collector Series Volume 1
- Atomhenge 76
- Live 1990
- Roadhawks
- Masters of the Universe
- Repeat Performance
- Angels of Death
- Spirit of the Age
- Stasis (The UA Years 1971–1975)
- Tales from Atom Henge
- Epocheclipse
- Future Reconstructions – Ritual of the Solstice
- Masters of Rock
- Spirit of the Age Anthology
- The Dream Goes On
- Hawkwind Zoo EP
- Sonic Assassins EP
- The Earth Ritual Preview
- Quark, Strangeness and Charm
- "Hurry On Sundown"
- "Silver Machine"
- "Urban Guerrilla"
- "Kings of Speed"
- "Kerb Crawler"
- "Back on the Streets"
- "Quark, Strangeness and Charm"
- "Psi Power"
- "25 Years"
- "Shot Down in the Night"
- "Who's Gonna Win the War?"
- "Spirit of the Age"
- Sonic Assassins
- Hawklords
- Space Ritual
- Hawklords (2008)