''Blake's New Jerusalem'' is an album by

Tim Blake Timothy Blake (born 6 February 1952, in Shepherd's Bush, London) is a keyboardist, synthesist, vocalist, and composer working with Gong, Hawkwind and his Synthesizer and Light performances as Crystal Machine, with the French Light Artist Patr ...

, recorded and originally released in 1978 on

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. The title is a reference to the popular British

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", which is based on

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's 1804 poem "

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". Tim Blake performed the tracks "Lighthouse" and "Blake's New Jerusalem" live with

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. "A Song for a New Age" was covered by Hawkwind bandmates

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and Richard Chadwick under the name Hawkwind Light Orchestra for the album ''Stellar Variations''.

Track listing

#"Song for a New age" — 5:12 #"Lighthouse" — 6:46 #"Generator (Laserbeam)" — 3:34 #"Passage sur la Cité de la Révélation" — 7:43 #"Blake's New Jerusalem" — 16:12

Personnel

**As listed in liner notes on back cover: *Tim Blake: Vocals, Acoustic and Electric Guitars, EMS Custom Synthesizers, Roland 100 System, Mini-Moog, ARP Omni and Korg Polyphonic Ensembles *Jean-Phillipe Rykiel: Mini-Moog Synthesizers on "Passage sur la Cité de la Révélation" and "Blake's New Jerusalem"

References

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