Centigrade 232 [SEP] record label
To A Crystal Set") appear on the CD's opening track "Second Degree Soul Sparks".
In October 2007, Voiceprint Records re-issued "Centigrade 232" in a package containing both a reprint of the 1977 book and a CD of the 1986 recitations.
Voiceprint Records label head Rob Ayling passed a copy of the cassette tape of Calvert's recitations to Dave Brock and asked him to set some of the titles to music. The music was played by the then current line-up of Hawkwind,
Centigrade 232
Centigrade 232 is an album and a book of poems by English writer and musician Robert Calvert, recorded in 1986 and released in 2007. The poem Centigrade 232 was set to music by Spirits Burning in 2001. Some titles were set to music by Hawkwind and issued as "The Brock/Calvert Project" in 2007.
Overview.
Calvert had regarded himself first and foremost as a poet and writer and his original involvement with the English rock group Hawkwind from 1971 was as a lyricist and narrator of "