Rainbow Dome Musick

Two tracks, each over 20 minutes. Ripples of modular synth, Tibetan bells, trickling water, gentle electric piano and glissando guitar motifs — it’s the absolute archetype of hippie new age ambient music. Brian Eno’s Music for Airports must surely have been an influence here, but Hillage, resting for a minute from the Kraut/prog rock complexities of his usual output, takes it and runs with it to an altogether more magic(k)al place. This is music for spaceports, for cosmic portals — for sitting under a rainbow dome, in fact. You don’t need to take gallons of LSD or practice any special yoga, this is a potent psychoactive in its own right, and an all-time classic of its kind.