{"id":47844,"date":"2019-03-10T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T11:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=47844"},"modified":"2019-03-10T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T11:55:37","slug":"international-rock-collective-sontaag-release-hawkwind-cover-silver-machine-feat-nik-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2019\/03\/international-rock-collective-sontaag-release-hawkwind-cover-silver-machine-feat-nik-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"International Rock Collective Sontaag Release Hawkwind Cover ‘Silver Machine’ feat. Nik Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"

International rock collective\u00a0Sontaag, whose conceptually ambitious, eponymous debut album (a sonically cinematic, cross-generic space opera) arrived into the progressive firmament to critical acclaim in 2014, are finally set to re-establish contact with our much-troubled earthly realm.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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On\u00a0March 15th, 2019, Sontaag return with a fiercely contemporary interpretation of Hawkwind’s iconic 1972 hit, ‘Silver Machine’. The Sontaag crew on this particular mission finds core creatives\u00a0Richard Sontaag\u00a0(guitars, keyboards, producer) and\u00a0Ian Fortnam\u00a0(vocals and guitar) joined by Youth, of Killing Joke, on bass,\u00a0Dave Barbarossa\u00a0(Adam And The Ants\/Bow Wow Wow) on drums, and ex-Hawkwind legend Nik Turner on sax<\/a>.<\/p>\n

‘Silver Machine’ is mixed by Youth, with the design and photo montage by Julie Cunnah.<\/p>\n

‘Silver Machine’ is available through\u00a0Cleopatra Records\u00a0via all digital platforms and also comes in radically remixed form courtesy of Sontaag’s fellow travellers in outer and inner psychedelic space,\u00a0The Orb.<\/p>\n

Ian Fortnam says of the song,<\/p>\n

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\u201cHawkwind were punk-proof. Even in ’77, Richard and I would jam on ‘Silver Machine.’ Hawkwind were the UK’s counter-cultural underground incarnate. I discovered them in that narrow space between Bolan and Bowie, simultaneous to Alice, in the summer of ’72. Astral explorers. Eyes aflame with psychedelic visions. The people your parents dreaded you becoming. The coolest band alive. ‘Silver Machine’ was Hawkwind’s magnum opus, a spiralling maelstrom of riff-driven brilliance. Who wouldn’t want to cover it? Four years ago I found myself spirited to Nik Turner’s place in Wales, where we spoke of the Great Pyramid, orgone accumulators, space rituals, hallucinogenics, sonic generators, woodwind and Hawkwind. Before we parted, I gave him a copy of the first Sontaag album and the seeds of the ‘Silver Machine’ project were sown. Obviously, the very best material deserves the very best band, so calls were made to maestro Youth and Dave Barbarossa (the dream rhythm section) and here we are. And what a rare privilege to work with The Orb whose ‘Imaginarium Translucent JellyFish Dub’ remix is a work of art in and of itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Richard Sontaag added,<\/p>\n

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Ian’s been pestering me to do a Hawkwind cover since way back when — the coolest kid in our school, he was often seen walking around with the Doremi Faso Latido LP under his arm between classes. But our ‘Silver Machine’ came about in an unexpected way. I was alone in the studio late one night, and noticed that the guys had strung up a microphone from the ceiling. I put all the amps in a circle around it — which is really bad technique – and went round each one, blasting out ‘Silver Machine’ on different instruments. That was the most fun I have ever had in a studio — and some of it even made it on to the final track.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You can stream and download ‘Silver Machine’ from iTunes<\/a> and Spotify<\/a>. Find Sontaag on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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International rock collective Sontaag, whose conceptually ambitious, eponymous debut album (a sonically cinematic, cross-generic space opera) arrived into the progressive firmament to critical acclaim in 2014, are finally set to re-establish contact with our much-troubled earthly realm.<\/p>\n

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