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Gong - Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1 - Flying Teapot CD (album) cover

RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1 - FLYING TEAPOT

Gong

 

Canterbury Scene

3.95 | 663 ratings

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snobb
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4 stars First album from wellknown Gong trilogy "Radio Gnome Invisible". Starting from here, you can listen real Daevid Allen's Gong sound in it's best. The music is still quite different in styles, but much more focused, and generally could be named "space jazz-rock". Songs are better structurised as well, more dynamic, more melodies, more acoustic pieces. Perfect wind instruments. Starting from here, great guitarist Steve Hillage became regular band member.

So, don't think that the music is something very calculated. No way! But chaos of previous works ( which often was more negtive factor, destroying often interesting ideas) there is changed by innovative fusion, melodical explosions.

It looks, that music is produced from the same raw material as before, but inder hand of genius. This album represent all the best you can hear in Allen's gong. Personally me prefer next album of this Trilogy ( it is more different,but and less structurised at the same time).

But I can strongly recommend this album to all listeners, interested in Daevid Allen's Gong and good space-jazz-rock as well.

snobb | 4/5 |

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