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| "Halcyon" | ||||
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&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Raddicio_Halycon.jpg) Radiccio EP cover | ||||
| Single by Orbital | ||||
| from the album Orbital (Brown album) | ||||
| Released | 1992 (original) 1993 ("+ On + On") | |||
| Recorded | 1992 | |||
| Genre | Ambient house, acid house, ambient techno | |||
| Length | 11:05 (original version) 3:51 (edit) 9:27 ("+ On + On" version) | |||
| Label | FFRR | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Edward Barton Phil and Paul Hartnoll | |||
| Producer(s) | Orbital | |||
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"Halcyon" is a song written and performed by Orbital, dedicated to Phil and Paul Hartnoll's mother, who was addicted to the tranquilliser Halcion (Triazolam) for many years.[1] It was released as Radiccio EP in the UK and Japan, and as Halcyon EP in the US.
- ^ "Well, we all had this crazy adolescence," explains Phil, tucking into a chilli burrito. "Because my dad was working really hard and was rarely at home while our mum was freaking out on Halcyon (a then-popular prescription tranquiliser)... Don't get me wrong, mum was always very loving and caring. But they prescribed her this drug and she just kept on doubling the dose." It was this which inspired 1992's 'Halcyon' and its video, which depicted bald Kirsty out of Opus III as a snooker-loopy housewife rattling around her suburban semi". Orbital:Suburban Spacemen Select Magazine, September 1994. Retrieved 21 July 2014.