Label: Charly
Category: Music
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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 803415640522
EAN: 0803415640522
ASIN: B00006L9TZ
Release Date: 2002-10-21
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Artist: Gong
Label: Charly Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Import Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 803415640522 EAN: 0803415640522 ASIN: B00006L9TZ Release Date: 2002-10-21 |
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This 1971 release was the first "real" Gong album (1970's MAGICK BROTHER was really Daevid Allen and Gilli Smyth with friends, recorded before the band's official debut). It's a psychedelic/space-rock classic, hinting at the conceptual/musical heights reached by the forthcoming "Radio Gnome Trilogy" but characterized by harder-edged riffing and fewer ethereal moments (Steve Hillage and Tim Blake had not yet come aboard). Allen's underground-oriented psycho-sexual, beatnik lyrics are a winning combination of wisdom and whimsy, but it's the music that makes CAMEMBERT. Allen's patented "glissando guitar" style (a spacy, flowing sound achieved with delay effects and a slide) puts the band in early Pink Floyd territory, as do the long, atmospheric jams. There's also a distinct jazz influence in both Pip Pyle's bop-inspired drumming and Didier Malherbe's freaky sax. These elements combined with Gilli Smyth's ambient/erotic "space whisper" backing vocals and Allen's winning tunesmithery to create some of the least pretentious art-rock ever heard. Charly. 2005.Album Details
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