Given their constant touring, it’s quite surprising that Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy’s SYSTEM 7 project released only one concert albums in the three and a half decades of the ensemble’s existence. Well, actually there was another one, as “Live @ Shinjuku Face” followed 2003’s “Live Transmissions” in 2009, but it was issued only in Japan. So the imminent appearance of “Live Transmissions 02” on April 11th – a set recorded at Tokyo’s “Duo Music Exchange in 2024, 30 years after the collective’s inaugural visit to Nippon – is more than welcome.
While most of the pieces performed on that night had originally emerged as SYSTEM 7 or their sibling MIRROR SYSTEM pieces, this concert should be notable by inclusion of “Meditation Of The Dragon” which Hillage used to play back in his prog days and took to stage as early as 1977. Captivating!
Live Transmissions 02
1. Meditation Of The Dragon
2. Ghayange Nachenge
3. Far Journeys
4. Free Cloud (Mirror System remix)
5. Positivenoise
6. Chic Psychedelic
7. Hinotori
8. And Justice Killed (System 7 remix)
9. Alpha Wave (Plasikman Acid House remix)
10. Coltrane
11. Stovepipe
12. Tenkawa
13. Scramble
14. Space Bird (Dubfire Deep Space remix)
