{"id":46065,"date":"2021-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/spacexmas\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:31:30","slug":"spacexmas","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/spacexmas\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceXmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I wrote a review of the latest Hawkestrel release<\/a>, and as a result this little gift found its way into my mailbox. As the title indicates, this is a record with a very Christmas feel. I wished I had gotten it few weeks earlier, but I was still intrigued to hear just to see how they pulled it off.<\/p>\n

Hawkestrel is of course a Hawkwind satellite band lead by bassist\/vocalist Alan Davey. As it was in the past, the record includes a number of guests that add the special flavor to the album. This time it is Glenn Hughes, Rick Wakeman, Robbie Krieger, Huw Lloyd-Langton, Nik Turner, Jurgen Engler, Nigel Potter, Adam Hamilton, Danny Faulkner, and Steve Leigh. That\u2019s a very impressive list of musicians\u00a0 However, Huw Lloyd Langton passed away back in 2012, so it must\u2019ve been done prior to this release.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The album\u2019s cover already indicates the holiday spirit with a very unusual twist. The twist of course comes from above. Sometimes that\u2019s enough to make one wonder as to what is lurking inside.<\/p>\n

SpaceXmas<\/i> is actually a fun listen. Most of the tracks come from the traditional Christmas catalog, but the songs are approached in a very spacey way. It gives the material a very fresh and fun feel. Some will even put a big smile on your face, but it\u2019s really up to the listener\u2019s taste.<\/p>\n

Glenn Hughes\u2019s vocals on \u201cOh Holy Night\u201d shine with beauty and elegance as do Nigel Potter\u2019s take on \u201cHallelujah.\u201d \u201cSilent Night\u201d is done here as an instrumental, and somewhere in the middle this track truly explodes into space. You\u2019ve been warned, so brace yourself. The cool thing about this album is that every track has that special something, no matter how predictable you expect it to be.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

While I enjoy this album very much, it feel little odd to listen to it past the holiday season. So it\u2019s lifespan is little bit limited, but it will certainly come alive next December. Once again, I\u2019m marveled how something impossible became a reality.\u00a0 This is a lot of fun, but that fun is restricted to a certain time of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":34232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10575],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-46065","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-hawkestrel","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51923,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46065\/revisions\/51923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46065"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46065"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}