NIK TURNER'S SPHYNX....XITINTODAY... "THE AWAKENING (Life on Venus)"

From Wikipedia.....After leaving Hawkwind the first time, Nik Turner holidayed in Egypt and while visiting the Great Pyramid of Giza he was given three hours inside the King's Chamber to record some flute music. On returning to England, Steve Hillage cleaned up the tapes and assembled the Sphynx band featuring Hawkwind's Alan Powell, Gong's Mike Howlett and Tim Blake, and Harry Williamson to record music augmenting the original flute tracks while Turner adapted lyrics from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. The album was released as Xitintoday on Charisma records in 1978 and the band toured, played festivals including Deeply Vale Festivals (later released as a CD), Glastonbury Festival (part of which was broadcast BBC television) and his own themed Bohemian Love-In all day festival at the Roundhouse.

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Music

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• NIK TURNER
• SPHYNX
• STEVE HILLAGE
• HAWKWIND
• PYRAMIDS
• SPACE ROCK

[nattynash62]

I still have my vinyl but no record player!!!! Am i still on venus.......

[Glanllyn]

Thanks for uploading - I used to own the vinyl - but that appears to have wandered off through a black hole too.

[kaisaid1]

Thank you SO SO much for uploading this album! I used to own the Xitintoday CD, but it mysteriously disappeared from my collection at some point! :( I have the 1993 'remake' of Sphynx, and although I love it, too, it just doesn't have the wonderful bizarre quality of this first rendering of these songs...:)