Space Hymns:

Releases:

	year: August 1971 label: Vertigo country: UK catalogue: 6360 046 More info: see here...
	year: 1972 label: Vertigo country: Spain (as 'Himnos Del Espacio') catalogue: 63 60 046 More info: see here...
	year: 1977 label: Vertigo country: Japan catalogue:RJ-7315
	year: 1980 label: Vertigo country: Holland catalogue: 9199 134
	year: 1990 (CD) label: Repertoire country: Germany catalogue: RR 4108-WP
	year: 2001 (CD) label: Progressive Line country: Australia catalogue: PL 522 includes 6 bonus tracks taken from Glass Top Coffin More info: see here...
	year: 2004 (CD) label: Repertoire country: Germany catalogue: REPUK 1030 includes 4 bonus tracks: Balloon (Alternative Mix, 1971 UK Single A side), Muddy Water (1971 UK Single B side), Jesus Come Back (1972 UK Single A side), Hello Mister (1972 UK Single B Side).

Recorded at StrawberryStudios, Stockport, England

All songs composed by Ramases except 'And The Whole World' and'You're The Only One' by his wife Sel and 'Jesus' by Ramases and Sel

Cover painting by Roger Dean

Click on song title for lyrics

First set of timings is from the 1990 CD, the second from the original album. Timings for 2004 bonus tracks supplied by Bobby Truscott, January 2005.

Tracks:

1. LifeChild [6:39/6:25]
2. Oh Mister[3:01/3:10]
   aka Hello Mister
3. And The Whole World [3:48/3:44]
4. QuasarOne [6:45/6:40]
5. You'reThe Only One [2:20/2:25]
6. Earth-People[5:28/4:45]
7. MolecularDelusions [4:02/4:05]
8. Balloon[4:31/4:28]
9. Dying Swan Year 2000 [0:46/0:42]
10. Jesus Come Back [4:01/5:03]
11. Journey To The Inside [6:06/6:21]


Bonus tracks on 2004 re-issue (all in mono):


12. Balloon (Alternative Mix, 1971 UK Single A side) [4.29]
    listed as 'Ballon' on CD cover
13. Muddy Water (1971 UK Single B side) [3.47]
14. Jesus Come Back (1972 UK Single A side) [4.02]
15. Hello Mister (1972 UK Single B Side) [3.02]
    aka Oh Mister

Musicians:

• Eric Stewart - Lead guitar and moogsynthesizer
• Lol Creme - Lead guitar and moog synthesizer
• Kevin Godley - Drums & flutes
• Graham Gouldman - Guitar & bassguitar
• Martin Raphael - Sitar
• Ramases and his wife Sel sing all songs.

Liner notes:

This album is dedicated to the earth people who are unusual becausethey have begun to pause, look back, and wonder where they have come fromand why, and where they are going to!

The earth is a living thing just as we are and has a soul as we do. You look at the heavens through a telescope.Reverse the telescope and you have a microscope through which (if powerfulenough), you would see almost the same sight. (Electrons in orbit aroundtheir stars.) "In my father's house there are many mansions"(The Bible).

We are most probably existing on amolecule inside the material of, perhaps, a living thing in the next sizeup.

The rocket ship shape of churches probablydates back to Moses' visit to speak to God on the mountain and what hesaw there.

Reviews:

Read a track-by-track review by Nigel Camilleri here...

Jim Tones reviewed 'Space Hymns' in 2004 on Julian Cope's Head Heritage website. Read his excellent review here...

Comments:

2004 Space Hymns re-issue



The 2004 Repertoire reissue (REPUK 1030) has four bonus tracks. Balloon (Alternative Mix, 1971 UK Single A side), Muddy Water (1971 UK Single B side), Jesus Come Back (1972 UK Single A side), Hello Mister (1972 UK Single B Side). Original album in stereo, four bonus tracks in mono.

The album is a cardboard gatefold cover with a poster of the original inner cover as a separate fold out.
-- Bobby Truscott, 4th January 2005

Strawberry Studios: It [Strawberry Studios]even attracted a self-confessed reincarnated Egyptian god called Ramases(really a central heating salesman from Sheffield) who came to Stockportwith his wife, Sel, and, with Stewart, Godley, Creme and Gouldman [whoformed 10cc in 1972], put together a rather strange album!
-- StrawberryStudios website

Hippie commune: Early Vertigo band, a male/female duo making the sort of music you'd expect to hear on a hippie commune. "You're The Only One Joe" is one of those songs whichsticks in your head for all of eternity. Members of 10cc played on SpaceHymns, the one I heard, which is housed in an impressive poster cover.Novel, but definitely not essential.
-- Mike Ohman, The Progressive Rock Website

Ramases: 'Space Hymns', including great fold-out cover, studiowork by Godley & Creme;apparently expounds religious visions of infinite regress of microscopic universes.
--SF-references-in-music List

Inside cover of CD re-issue

Inside cover of LP

Original Roger Dean painting, taken from RogerDean's book "Views"
(Dragon's Dream, 1975)

Original fold-out album cover, taken from the Sirwan Records website

Himnos del espacio My name is Toño, and I live in Spain. I have this album from the year 1972 that started in Spain, the purchase of the album it was a chance, but well it was the cover the one that decided me to buy it. But to the first one he/she listens I realized that he/she had made a great purchase.
-- José Antonio García, July 2001

Front cover for 'Himnos del espacio',
supplied by Toño, July 2001

Back cover for 'Himnos del espacio',
supplied by Toño, July 2001

Australian CD: I bought a newly released Ramases "Space Hymns" CD on eBay - it has six bonus tracks from "Glass Top Coffin" which are tracks 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 and 11. CD is on Progressive Line a division of Dole Music - Made in Australia P 1971/75 C 2001
-- Mike Sonnabend, 31 January 2002

Back cover for 'Space Hymns' Australian CD re-issue,
supplied by Mike Sonnabend, February 2002

God Voice: Just for correctness reasons, note that track 14 of the Australian 'Space Hymns' CD is erroneously referred to as 'Only The Loneliest Feeling' on the CD cover, while in fact the track included in the CD is 'God Voice'!
-- Michael Patronis, Greece, 4th October 2002

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