We love Gongs! So of course we love the band GONG!
The band known as GONG was a Franco-British prog rock band. Started by Australian musician, Daevid Allen, in 1967, the band's focus was to create psychedelic music. He chose musicians well-versed in both music and psychedelics and the rest is history, fantasy, and even mystery!
Their debut album, Magick Brother, was firmly rooted in the psychedelic genre of the time. The sound of the band began to change throughout their next albums, ranging from psychedelic pop to avant garde progressive rock . Their well-known third, fourth, and fifth albums were released as a trilogy: The Radio Gnome Invisible, featuring the adventures of Zero the Hero, the Good Witch Yoni and the Pot Head Pixies from the Planet Gong (green pixies with propellers on their heads who fly around in teapots, of course!).
In 1976 Daevid Allen left the band, and it went in different directions, but he returned in 1991 to lead GONG and created four more albums.
Click the link and you can purchase this album and support this artist! "In 1970, the world got its first taste of the original pothead pixie, Daevid Allen's Gong, as Magick Brother was released in France on the BYG label. Allen's wife, Gilli Smyth, penned all the tunes on the album, and Allen's now-classic "Ph.P." drawing style graces the inside of the gatefold. Leaning a little toward the pop end of the spectrum, Magick Brother is a fairly light album, devoid of the blatant psychedelic/hippie qualities which shine through so brilliantly on the later Camembert Electrique. Smyth's "space whispering" makes its debut on the opening track, though the album is not as spacy as it is ethereal."(allmusic) |
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"The companion piece to The Flying Teapot, Angel's Egg is not your usual progressive rock album. Very quirky, with many, mostly brief compositions, the album is a tad less spacy than Teapot, with just a few psychedelic-inspired lyrics, and it's very technically adept. Angel's Egg opens with a true space rock cut (one of the few on the album), filled with the usual Gilli Smyth space whispering and Daevid Allen voicings, then leads into the cleverly titled "Sold to the Highest Buddha," with Steve Hillage and Didier Malherbe prominent figures |
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"For their first album of new material in over 20 years, the original Gong (i.e., one led by Daevid Allen and containing a number of players from the classic '60s-'70s period) offer -- well, much of what made them so popular in the first place."(allmusic) |
"Gong is back in action with Zero to Infinity, one of the strongest releases ever by the "Daevid Allen" version of the band. Zero to Infinity is part five of Gong's "Radio Gnome" saga, a whimsical tale about the adventures of protagonist "Zero the Hero" and the many cosmic characters he encounters on mystical journeys through space and time. |
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