SPIRITS Burning released their first CD in 1998 and since then more have been issued and the best of those CDs has been collected here.

The idea of the band, if it can be called that., is to bring together musicians who want to celebrate space-rock and create new music.

In all, 55 musicians have gathered to create new sonic adventures.

People like Gong’s Daevid Allen and Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson are amongst the myriad of line-ups here, and perhaps expectedly, many former members of the most way out of space rockers Hawkwind put in appearances.

Among the Hawkwind alumni are Robert Calvert, Richard Chadwick and Michael Moorcock, who turns up on the tracks ‘Second Degree Soul Sparks’ and ‘Every Gun Plays It’s Own Tune’.

The 11 compilation tracks are joined by 3 previously unreleased numbers.

An interesting release, but I fear a bit too ‘out there’ for most.

Voiceprint Records. VP489CD.