Gagalactyca - Cold Tired And Hungry, Holyground 1973, Bill Nelson, Guitar, Progressive Music.

Gagalactyca - Cold Tired & Hungry (Holyground 1973)

Bill Nelson, Guitar.

Bill Nelson (born December 18, 1948) is a prolific guitarist, songwriter, painter and experimental musician from Yorkshire, England.
Nelson was educated at the Wakefield College of Art, where he developed an interest in the work of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. At this time he was also developing as a musician, drawing upon Duane Eddy as a primary guitar influence. He was involved in a music project titled "A to Austr" with Brian Calvert and Chris Coombs. They produced the album titled "A to Austr: Musics from the Holyground" which appeard on Holyground Records in 1970.

He went through a relatively normal process of education at Wakefield schools, eventually attending the Wakefield College of Art, where he was able to pursue his painting and graphics interests, as well as his fascination with Jean Cocteau. On the musical side of his life, he was involved with several unrecorded bands. The first known Nelson recordings are of a three-piece band called Global Village, who cut three covers for an EP and dissolved in 1968. Nelson also played on sessions at the Holyground recording studio, various of which have surfaced again in recent years, though Nelson is dismissive of his participation

Only 425 copies of this album were pressed and it came with a free booklet.
Despite its late release date it's actually comprised of previously unreleased early seventies material by the two bands, Lightyears Away and Thundermother, who were responsible for the Astral Navigations album.

GAGALACTYCA has only been released on vinyl. It is a sister album to Astral Navigations.
There are two "sets" of music : Chris Coombs and others (Lightyears Away), and Thundermother. Chris and Mike Levon wrote songs for the Light Years Away "side" of the album. Standout tracks are the short though beautiful "That Is What We Need", and "Cold Tired and Hungry" a storming track featuring Bill Nelson on guitar.


This is mainly the follow-up album to the highly collectable "Astral Navigations" album from 1973. Rare early '70's privately pressed spacey folky prog mostly recorded with a similar line-up to the Astral Navigations album. The music continues the same vein of spacey progressive folk music, and now comes with half a dozen bonus tracks from Thundermother - some of which are also quite trippy. Cosmic and rare as hell.

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• Gagalactyca
• Bill Nelson
• Holyground
• Progressive Rock
• Psych Folk
• Guitar
• Music from Holyground.

[Generatorhead]

R.I.P. Mike Levon.

Love all things Holyground.

[lukeus10]

pretty damn good holyground is outa sight

[andreacryptic]

Love it.