Motivation Radio
	Produced by Malcolm Cecil
	Released on September 1977
	UK CHART POSITION #28
	Find it at GEMM
SD 19144 cover [high resolution scan]

M editate, medicate, do whatever it takes, but tune into Motivation Radio. Presented as “a multidimensional window,” it’s a remarkable musical journey that fills the listener with positive energy. I know, that sounds sooo new agey, so let me explain. I don’t listen to this record, I lose myself in it. For forty minutes, my grey little world becomes a technicolor landscape where flying saucers and octave doctors come to life on crackling waves of energy. Still not helping? Okay, then think about Pink Floyd. Remember how Dark Side and Wish You Were Here transported you to another place? Well, Motivation Radio does the same, only it’s a much friendlier place. The sounds, the melodies, the musicality of it all conspires to make me drop my guard, and before I know it I’m no longer listening to the music, I’m breathing it. Maybe it’s just a harmonic thing, and you’re either tuned into this kind of music (in which case Gong’s You is probably one of your favorites) or you’re not. The cynic in me can see where you might call this progressive pop that panders to space cadets. But if that’s the case, slap some space officer stripes on me and call me sir. If you need more motivation, check out the review at All Music Guide. Oh, and check out Todd Rundgren’s Healing too. Has the same effect on me for some reason.

TRACK LISTING

1. HELLO DAWN    2:48
2. MOTIVATION    4:08
3. LIGHT IN THE SKY    4:10
4. RADIO    6:11
5. WAIT ONE MOMENT    3:16
6. SAUCER SURFING    4:24
7. SEARCHING FOR THE SPARK    5:28
8. OCTAVE DOCTORS    (Steve Hillage)    3:30
9. NOT FADE AWAY    (Charles Hardin/Norman Petty)    3:28
   
   CD reissue bonus track
   
10. LEYLINES TO GLASSDOM (T.O.N.T.O. VERSION)
11. THE SALMON SONG (POWER TRIO BACKING TRACK)
12. THE GOLDEN VIBE (ALTERNATIVE MIX)
    
    Music composed and arranged by Steve Hillage, lyrics and concept by Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy unless noted
    

CREDITS

STEVE HILLAGE -- guitar, guitar synthesiser, synthesiser, voice & shenai
JOE BLOCKER -- drums
MALCOLM CECIL -- T.O.N.T.O. synthesiser (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), engineer
MIQUETTE GIRAUDY -- synthesiser & saucersiser, ladyvoice
REGGIE McBRIDE -- bass
Bob Cato/Image Control Howard Carriker & Ted Staidle -- designer and photographer

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