Where is the love for EGG, KHAN, ARZACHEL, CARAVAN, and assorted STEVE HILLAGE projects?

hillage of course invented ambient techno and wz resurrected

I have to admit that I was disappointed when I finally heard Khan, since the Space Shanty album's been touted as such a lovely thing by some people I know. BUT I shall pop it in from time to time, and maybe it'll grow on me (There was after all a time when I thought Gong's "You" was kinda boring. Now it's a top-10 album for me and total bliss)

As for Caravan, they had their ups and downs, but for me the highlight is the very twee "In the land of grey and pink" with its wonderful keyboard tones and flippy-floppy little pop songs (with assorted prog-fringes)
The band's next album was kinda dull, but I never played it much, so it might have a chance to grow on me. The next after that, For Girls Who Grow Plump, things started sounding a bit tepid, really. There's some very cool stuff, like the fun "Cthulhu cthlu" (or whatever it's called) but it's far from a favorite.
Generally I'd say that people should hear Land.. and If I Could Do It All Over Again, and then explore the others if they -really- dig those.
Incidentally, when "For Richard" fluffs up that big octave-hop keyboard riff...! One of my favorite rock-out moments in prog, it is!
(that's NOT meant to be damning with faint praise. Hey, it's the genre that brought us Magma and Ruins!)

Not enough talk about Arzachel here?

Also I like Caravan

arzachel is about the only band out of these that i'm really familiar with, still. i still love them, my wife put them on a mixtape back when we were trying to impress each other with coolness (she won).

dude, your wife out-progged you?!

arzachel so great. garden of earthly delights is a tremendous pop song to boot

if a chick outprogs you the law is you have to marry her on the spot

not much love for caravan? "the dog, the dog, he's at it" just gave me a contact high

Egg is the best of these bands for me, and if we're talking Dave Stewart projects where indeed is the love for NATIONAL HEALTH?

here's some love for both the epics on the self-titled, "tenemos roads" and "elephants." sort of glad this little corner gets ignored, since there's something refreshing about revisiting stuff like this that hasn't been subjected to the revival treatment

This thread's revival last week inspired me to pull out my copy of The Best Of Caravan: From 1970-1974 (London 1978, only LP I own by them, probably bought it for $1 once upon a time), and turns out, if these tracks are at all typical, they were kind of funky for a prog band -- especially "Aristocracy," which I could totally dance to, but also sort of "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" (which could almost past for Can/Kraut-rock I'd say) and parts of the nine-minute "Memory Lain, Hugh Headloss." Also like their jazzy spans (woodwinds? French horns? no idea -- no instrument credits on this LP despite fairly long liner notes, and I'm too lazy to look it up right now), probably not a surprise given their apaprent Canterbury (as in Soft Machine) origins. The twee whimsy of "Golf Girl" makes me laugh -- "I chahnced upon a golf girl who was selling cups of tea," vedddy "Cups and Cakes." Anyway, I've always sort of confused them with Camel before, but I think maybe I'm starting to be able to tell the difference.

I really love Fish Rising. Listening to L for the first time right now (found it on wax for two bucks!) - it's just OK so far. The track lengths and the titles and the presence of Don Cherry had me excited but some of this gets a little 'guitar hero' for me (I don't mean the video game). Maybe it'll stick on the second pass. Of the Hillage I've heard though, Fish Rising stands head and shoulders above the rest (even the much-celebrated Rainbow Dome Music, though I will say 'pioneering ambient / synth / new age' records are, generally speaking, usually not my deal).

Live Herald is almost a perfect album. Pity about the "Hurdy Gurdy Man" cover.

HAven't listened to caravan enough recently. Only thing I've heard recently has been the Zappa jam from the Amouges festival since there wasa torrent of the Zappa jams with different bands from the Festival.
I have the full Amouges Caravan set somewhere and it's pretty visceral for them

I have the cover of In The Land of Grey and PInk on an A4 print on the wall behind me. Nice drawing. very Tolkien or something.