Rainbow Dome Musick album cover
Rainbow Dome Musick

Steve Hillage

1979
Virgin

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.

Joe Muggs

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