Name: Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground
Brand: Joe Banks (strange Attractor)

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9781907222849

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2020-11-12

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Joe Banks (strange Attractor)

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Strange Attractor

A record label born in Olympia, WA and relocated to Portland, OR in March 2002. Strange Attractor is inspired by and strives to document challenging, "out" music.

Originally a radio program called "Strange Attractors" on Olympia 89.3 FM Community Radio, the label splintered off to become Strange Attractors Audio House.

With a focus on capturing unique and unconventional sounds, Strange Attractor is dedicated to showcasing music that pushes boundaries and challenges traditional genres.

An account of the English rock band Hawkwind shows them to be one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s.

Fifty years on from when it first formed, the English rock band Hawkwind continues to inspire devotion from fans around the world. Its influence reaches across the spectrum of alternative music, from psychedelia, prog, and punk, through industrial, electronica, and stoner rock. Hawkwind has been variously, if erroneously, positioned as the heir to both Pink Floyd and the Velvet Underground, and as Britain's answer to the Grateful Dead and Krautrock. It has defined a genre-space rock-while operating on a frequency that's uniquely its own.

Hawkwind offered a form of radical escapism and an alternative account of a strange new world for a generation of young people growing up on a planet that seemed to be teetering on the brink of destruction, under threat from economic meltdown, industrial unrest, and political polarisation. While other commentators confidently asserted that the countercultural experiment of the 1960s was over, Hawkwind took the underground to the provinces and beyond.

In Days of the Underground, Joe Banks repositions Hawkwind as one of the most innovative and culturally significant bands of the 1970s. It's not an easy task. As with many bands of this era, a lazy narrative has built up around Hawkwind that doesn't do justice to the breadth of its ambition and achievements. Banks gives the lie to the popular perception of Hawkwind as one long lysergic soap opera; with Days of the Underground, he shows us just how revolutionary Hawkwind was.

Hawkwind: Days Of The Underground

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