Spirit of the Age - originally by Hawkwind - new version by Hausfrauen Experiment

Fruits de Mer Records presents
Volume 12 : The Hausfrauen Experiment
2 x7 vinyl : on sale June 2010

Fruits de Mer Records severely tests the limits of its sixties/early seventies psych/prog/krautrock agenda and completely blows its budget with a double 7 release from Hausfrauen Experiment.
Four future/retro/electro/leftfield/outtheresomewhere versions of a bizarre selection of tracks that only the musically-deranged or commercially-suicidal could put together in one release (so we did).
Featuring Oscillations, originally by Silver Apples; Spirit of the Age, originally by Hawkwind; Babys On Fire, originally by Eno ; Sebastian, originally by Cockney Rebel

Hausfrauen Experiment (www.myspace.com/hausfrauenexperiment)
Tracy, Vyolette & Lisa (in their own words)Disco Diva Doilys... Rich Tea and an upright Hoover... polishing parquet floors and ancient teak and mahogany sideboards with beeswax ... Duran Duran or Steeley Dan - and we're talking Barbarella here... such are the dreams of the everyday housewife you see everywhere any time of the day... Jimmy Webb at the Ritz and Frankie in Heaven... an ever widening vista of ripples lapping gently against the shores of memory, forcing the question: Do we go quietly into the long dark teatime of the soul? Or, do we cast again the uncast die? For DARKLILY, LISA & TRACY the answer was an unequivocal ... NO! And thus, on a darksome November eve was born THE HAUSFRAUEN EXPERIMENT; their mission: To somewhat abstractly tinker with perfectly good songs for their own amusement. Enjoy.
Members of The Hausfrauen Experiment have worked with The Beloved, Eyeless in Gaza, Nurse With Wound, Orchis, Temple Music and S.Q.E. to name but a few.... they got together to bemoan the state of alternative music and popular culture over some nice coffee with sprinkles and a glass of Kirsch on the side, and decided to amuse themselves by recreating their fave pop moments using vintage synth and fx rather than suffer people in the deli going on about the X-Factor. Their first effort, a cover of Das Modell, received plaudits from Hans-Joachim Roedelius of Cluster; encouraged, they proceeded to plunder the back catalogue of Eno, The Silver Apples, Skeeter Davies, Japan, Duran Duran, Mott The Hoople, T Rex, Can... anything they liked and thought was coolthen those nice people at Fruits de Mer approached the band about doing a single... this then expanded into a double 7"... so, who knows what the future holds? We do. Death. Might as well have fun first...

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• space rock
• silver machine
• dave brock
• spirit of the age
• stacia
• lemmy
• kitch
• b-movie
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• in search of space
• fruits de mer
• fruits de mer records

[ukjim]

Yeah, I liked it. Love all that old movie stuff.

[assinomen]

shit we crash landed in an aquarium..i like the track though always good to listen to hawkwind covers....

[blonde7000]

very nice version beautiful girls and nice vocals

[Starfirephoenix1]

Ripping Cover .. Long Time Hawlks fam myself ,filmed a whole show back in december on my channel ...myself... I fink the Goddess works it into this band ;)

Lovin' the Femmie Godess Elements , just right for the Age ... I sure liked it , then there will be some die hards that will say OOOOO Oh bet their not Hawkwind though,,, maybe not but they sure have The Spirit Of The Age and that's undeniable by the people who didn't like it ;)

Music Is The Harmonics Of All That is and yer good stuff :)

[aroflex11]

Oh man, this is a cool version - it does total justice to Hawkwind's classic (one of my fav tracks of all time) and the video is aaaawesome! Thanks!!

[eahazell]

doesn't do it justice. This is Hawkwinds, they shouldn't have touched it

[FirstLandingOnMedusa]

Nice vid. Thanks for sharing!

[FirstLandingOnMedusa]

@reyrFuaP I only hear one deviation in the lyrics... they replaced the 'I am a clone' bit with something about 'everything I know.." Other than that they were all the same except that they replaced the She's with He's. Not trying to be argumentative, it's just that I read your comment before listening and tried to spot errors....

[reyrFuaP]

they needed to learn the words, but apart from that, great

[Calun3]

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