Gong - Expresso II (1978)

Year: March 1978 (CD Dec 16, 1989)
Label: Virgin Records (Japan), VJD-5019
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 37:32
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 252 Mb

Key to the new album’s rich aesthetic was an increased emphasis on percussion. While rhythms had always been given a prominent role under the drummer’s stewardship, never before had they come in such variety or enjoyed such precedence. With Pierre Moerlen and brother Benoit playing a variety of mallet instruments, Mireille Bauer added further marimba and vibraphone textures to Francois Causse’s tribal conga drum patterns to create a whirlwind of high and low pitched polyrhythms.
Something of an anomaly in the context of the album, opener “Heavy Tune” finds former Rolling Stone Mick Taylor’s steely guitar work adding a hard rock edge to a strident jazz-funk jam. More representative, the following “Golden Dilemma” features a furious-paced percussive barrage offset by Hansford Rowes’s funky rhythm guitar licks, while the gentle “Sleepy” features the band at their most dreamlike, with multiple layers of vibes and marimba creating a magic box effect that’s abetted by similarly mystical violin courtesy of former Curved Air man Darryl Way. Elsewhere, the sprightly “Soli,” driven by Hansford Rowe’s roaming bass runs, and Francois Causse’s Latin conga rhythms, heads yet further into jazz fusion territory, a path continued with the erroneously titled, gamelan-influenced “Boring” and the conga-heavy Latin experiments of “Three Blind Mice.”
Expresso II’s release saw out the band’s contract with Virgin and was to be the final studio album under the Gong moniker until 1992. Rechristened Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, the outfit would continue to mine their rhythm-heavy brand of jazz fusion into the 80s.
(udiscovermusic.com/stories/rediscover-gongs-expresso-ii/)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
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01. Heavy Tune (06:25)
02. Golden Dilemma (04:53)
03. Sleepy (07:18)
04. Soli (07:39)
05. Boring (06:26)
06. Three Blind Mice (04:49)

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Gong - Gazeuse! [Japanese Ed.] (1976)

Year: Late 1976 (CD Dec 16, 1989)
Label: Virgin Records (Japan), VJD-5018
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 39:46
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 229 Mb

The group first came together under the leadership of Australian-born Daevid Allen, an early member of Soft Machine who, after being denied reentry into the UK due to visa problems in 1967, remained in France and formed Gong largely around a group of French musicians including saxophonist/flautist Didier Malherbe, the only original member left by the time Gazeuse! was released in 1976.
While not titled as such, Gazeuse! was really the first release by a Gong offspring, Pierre Moerlen's Gong, which largely abandoned the psychedelic space rock of such early Gong releases as the classic Radio Gnome Trilogy (also featuring guitarist Steve Hillage) for a more jazz-rock fusion sound. Its immediate predecessor, Shamal (Virgin)—released earlier the same year and the first to feature the trifecta of Moerlen, vibraphonist Benoit Moerlen and vibraphonist/percussionist Mireille Bauer—hinted at the future direction of this Gong offshoot (the departed Allen later reuniting his vision of Gong, one that was more in-line with its early, hippy-aesthetic days). Shamal, however, featured vocals and was more progressive-leaning, thanks to Malherbe and bassist Mike Howlett's writing, and Hillage's echo-drenched guitar (he would leave the band, along with life partner Miquette Giraudy, before the album's February 1976 release).
Gazeuse! also features Francis Moze. A tremendous fretless bassist with a positively massive tone compared to American fretless innovator Jaco Pastorius, Moze demonstrated a similarly lithe dexterity as his American cousin that allowed him to lay down an unshakable groove while, at the same time, engaging in a more interactive way with the rest of his band mates. The album also includes an early appearance by Mino Cinelu, who would go on to greater fame with American fusion super group Weather Report and, in the last decade of his life, Miles Davis.
(full version: allaboutjazz.com/gong-gazeuse-gong-virgin-records-review-by-john-kelman)

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01. Expresso (05:58)
02. Night Illusion (03:42)
03. Percolations Part 1 (03:52)
04. Percolations Part 2 (06:09)
05. Shadows Of (07:48)
06. Esnuria (08:01)
07. Mireille (04:12)

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Gong - Shamal [Japanese Ed.] (1976)

Year: 13 February 1976 (CD Dec 16, 1989)
Label: Virgin Records (Japan), VJD-5017
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Jazz Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 40:44
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 257 Mb

The album, produced by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason, was recorded in December 1975 by a unique line-up referred to later as "Shamal-Gong". It is usually regarded as a transitional album between Daevid Allen's incarnation of the band and the Pierre Moerlen-led fusion line-up of the late 1970s.
The greatest thing about Shamal is that it's so versatile. There are only six tracks here, but each one seems to explore a different tone and aspect of musical experimentation. The softer tracks such as opener "Wingful of Eyes" and beautiful, elegant flute-led "Bambooji" are complementary to the album's quirkier tracks, such as the almost Frank Zappa-inspired "Cat in Clark's Shoes" and eccentric closing title track. Yet what really glues all these songs together is the absence of self-indulgent musicianship and a definite knowledge of perfect instrumental placements.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamal_(album))

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01. Wingful Of Eyes (06:20)
02. Chandra (07:18)
03. Bambooji (05:13)
04. Cat In Clark's Shoes (07:43)
05. Mandrake (05:04)
06. Shamal (09:03)

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Gong - Shapeshifter (1992)

Year: 1992 (CD Oct 1992)
Label: Celluloid (France), 66914-2
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 65:42
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 379 Mb

Shapeshifter is the ninth studio album released under the name Gong and the sixth album by the Daevid Allen version of the group. It was released in 1992. It is the first proper album from Daevid Allen's Gong since You from 1974. It is the first album from the original group without founding member Gilli Smyth. Didier Malherbe and Allen are the only two returning performers from the previous album. Pip Pyle, who performed on Continental Circus and Camembert Electrique also returns.
With main character Zero the hero, the album continues the Gong mythology, the central part of which was formed with the Radio Gnome Trilogy of albums, comprising Flying Teapot in 1973, followed by Angel's Egg, 1973, and You in 1974.
In episode four in the album Shapeshifter (1992), Zero meets an urban shaman who agrees to take Zero to the next level of awareness on the proviso that Zero spends nine months on an airplane, travelling where he wants but not using money or eating anything other than airline food. Zero eventually dies in Australia under mysterious circumstances.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifter_(Gong_album))

01. Gnomerique (00:07)
02. Shapeshifter (04:53)
03. Hymnalayas (07:38)
04. Dog-O-Matic (03:00)
05. Spirit With Me (02:27)
06. Mr Albert Parkin (00:17)
07. Raindrop Tablas (00:21)
08. Give My Mother A Soul Call (04:03)
09. Heaven's Gate (04:49)
10. Snake Tablas (00:34)
11. Loli (05:09)
12. La Bas La Bas (04:06)
13. I Gotta Donkey (02:12)
14. Can You : You Can (09:09)
15. Confiture De Rhubarbier (01:18)
16. Parkin Triumphant (00:06)
17. Longhaired Tablas (00:14)
18. Elephant La Tete (04:41)
19. Mother's Gone (01:12)
20. Elephant La Cuisse (03:26)
21. White Doves (05:24)
22. Gnomoutro (00:27)

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Gong - You - Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 3 (1974)

Year: 4 October 1974 (CD ????)
Label: Virgin Records (UK), CDV 2019
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 44:39
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 258 Mb

It is the last album by Daevid Allen's iteration of the group until 1992's Shapeshifter. Recorded at Virgin's Manor Studios in Oxfordshire, England, side 1 was mixed at Pye Studios, Marble Arch, London, while side 2 was mixed at The Manor. It was produced by Simon Heyworth and Gong "under the universal influence of C.O.I.T., the Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet", and also engineered by Heyworth.
You is the third of the "Radio Gnome Invisible" trilogy of albums, following Flying Teapot and Angel's Egg. The trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The structure of the album mixes short narrative pieces with long, jazzy instrumentals (such as "Master Builder", "A Sprinkling of Clouds" and "Isle of Everywhere"), building to a climax/conclusion with "You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever".
The group had undertaken a gruelling tour from October 1973 through to May 1974 taking in Britain, France, Germany and Netherlands. As the tour progressed, they would compose and improvise new themes as a group for this album, subsequently all pieces are credited to the entire band under the pseudonym COIT (Compagnie d'Opera Invisible de Thibet). Allen felt "[t]here was a mystical, occult agreement between us: on the You album, we managed to create geometrically and mathematically perfect pieces of music that seemed to be totally improvised".
In June 1974, with the same line-up as the previous Angel's Egg album, they entered Virgin Records' Manor Studios to record this album. On 29 June they performed for free in Hyde Park, London.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Gong_album))

01. Thoughts for Naught (01:32)
02. A P.H.P.'s Advice (01:47)
03. Magick Mother Invocation (02:06)
04. Master Builder (06:07)
05. A Sprinkling of Clouds (08:55)
06. Perfect Mystery (02:26)
07. The Isle of Everywhere (10:20)
08. You Never Blow Yr Trip Forever (11:22)

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Gong - Camembert Electrique (1971)

Year: October 1971 (CD 1990)
Label: Decal Records (UK), CD LIK 64
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 39:47
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 255 Mb

Camembert Electrique (French: Electric Camembert) is the second studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, recorded and originally released in 1971 on the French BYG Actuel label. The album was recorded at Chateau d'Herouville near Paris, France, produced by Pierre Lattes and engineered by Gilles Salle. Jean Karakos (credited in Daevid Allen's liner notes as "Byg Jean Kastro Kornflakes") was executive producer.
The album was originally released in France in October 1971 on BYG Actuel (catalogue number 529.353), and reissued in the UK in 1974 by Virgin Records (catalogue number VC-502), where it sold for 59p, the price of a single, a marketing scheme Virgin had used the year before for the album The Faust Tapes by Faust, in the hope that greatly discounted albums would give more exposure to the artists and encourage sales of their regularly priced albums, although these discounted albums did not qualify for album chart listings. It was also issued twice on Virgin's Caroline Records budget label (catalogue number C-1505 also in 1974, and C-1520 around 1976), still at a discount price, but no longer priced as low as a single.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camembert_Electrique)

01. Radio Gnome (00:28)
02. You Can't Kill Me (06:20)
03. I've Bin Stone Before (02:36)
04. Mister Long Shanks - O Mother I Am Your Fantasy (05:57)
05. Dynamite - I Am Your Animal (04:32)
06. Wet Cheese Delirium (00:34)
07. Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads (00:13)
08. Fohat Digs Holes In Space (06:22)
09. Tried So Hard (04:38)
10. Selene (07:36)
11. Gnome The Second (00:26)

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Gong - Angel's Egg: Radio Gnome Invisible Part II [4 bonus tracks] (1973)

Year: 7 December 1973 (CD October 4, 2004)
Label: Virgin Records (Europe), 7243 8 66556 2 2
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 60:47
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 338 Mb

It was recorded using The Manor Mobile studio at Gong's communal home, Pavillon du Hay, Voisines, France, and mixed at The Manor, Oxfordshire, England. The album was produced by "Gong under the direction of Giorgio Gomelsky".
Angel's Egg is the second in Gong's Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy of albums, following Flying Teapot and preceding You. The trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The original album did not have an apostrophe in the title.
The original vinyl edition came with a booklet containing an extensive explanation of the mythology, including lyrics, a glossary of terms, and profiles of characters in the story and band members. This edition also had a gatefold cover (omitted in later pressings), a plain inky blue inner sleeve to match the gate fold and booklet, and had the original black and white Virgin label which was discontinued after 1973; it was one of the last albums to use the original label. Some copies had a sticker over top of the female nude in the moon on the cover.
The CD version released by Virgin Records, and later reissued on Charly Records contains an extra track: "Ooby-Scooby Doomsday or The D-day DJs Got the D.D.T. Blues", that ends with a male voice choir glissando (questionably regarded by some[by whom?] as a parody on Pink Floyd's "Echoes"), starting with "Ahhhh" and ending with "Chooo", mimicking a sneeze. The track was originally released on the Live Etc. album but was excluded from the CD release (which reissued that double album as one disc), and included on this album instead.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel%27s_Egg_(album))

01. Other Side Of The Sky (07:38)
02. Sold To The Highest Buddha (04:28)
03. Castle In The Clouds (01:12)
04. Prostitute Poem (04:53)
05. Givin My Luv To You (00:47)
06. Selene (03:42)
07. Flute Salad (02:09)
08. Oily Way (03:37)
09. Outer Temple (01:08)
10. Inner Temple (02:34)
11. Percolations (00:45)
12. Love Is How Y Make It (03:28)
13. I Never Glid Before (05:37)
14. Eat That Phone Book Coda (03:14)
15. Other Side Of The Sky (Single Version) (04:36)
16. Ooby-Scooby Doomsday Or The D-Day DJ's Got The D.D.T. Blues (05:11)
17. Love Is How Y Make It (1973 Vocal Mix) (02:32)
18. Eat That Phone Book Coda (Early Version) (03:09)

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Gong - Magick Brother (1970)

Year: March 1970 (CD 2004)
Label: Charly Records (UK), SNAP 199
Style: Canterbury Scene, Progressive Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Country: Paris, France
Time: 43:53
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 257 Mb

Gong are a rock band associated with the Canterbury scene. They incorporate elements of psychedelic rock, jazz and space rock into their musical style. The group was formed in Paris in 1967 by Australian musician Daevid Allen and English vocalist Gilli Smyth.
Gong's 1970 debut album, Magick Brother, featured a psychedelic rock sound. By the following year, the second album, Camembert Electrique, featured the more psychedelic rock/space rock sound with which they would be most associated.
The band's recently recruited bass player Christian Tritsch was not ready in time to play on the album, and so singer/songwriter/guitarist Daevid Allen played the bass guitar himself; a photo of Allen recording bass tracks for the album is featured on the cover artwork. They also made use of jazz contrabass (double bass) players Earl Freeman and Barre Phillips, who were recording for the label at the same time, on three tracks. Occasional early Gong collaborator Dieter Gewissler, who normally played violin, also contributed some "free" bowed contrabass to two tracks. The LP sleeves were printed before the final track order and titles had been decided and so the songs "Rational Anthem" (AKA "Change the World") and "Glad To Sad To Say" were listed the wrong way round.
Shortly afterwards, the band played its debut gig at the BYG Actuel Festival in the small town of Amougies, Belgium, on 27 October 1969, introduced to the stage by bemused compere Frank Zappa.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_(band)) and (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_Brother)

01. Mystic Sister - Magick Brother (05:56)
02. Glad To Sad To Say (04:09)
03. Rational Anthem (03:44)
04. Chainstore Chant - Pretty Miss Titty (04:47)
05. Fable Of A Fredfish - Hope You Feel Ok (04:27)
06. Ego (03:59)
07. Gong Song (04:13)
08. Princess Dreaming (02:53)
09. 5 and 20 Schoolgirls (04:36)
10. Cos You Got Green Hair (05:04)

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