RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1 - FLYING TEAPOT

For this album, I'll be quite generous, I like its style a lot, and the fact that it's a multi-national band arouses my interest. however, I don't quite recall how did sound Camembert electric or Magick Brother (I'd need to dive into it again).

The first track starts us off strong! with a rather colorful fanfare, with seemingly crazy lyrics that are quite surprising. For me, it is a superb title of psychedelic poetry, of successful experimentation and that made with a sense of the melody

Flying Teapot is a pleasant cosmic journey that seems to be less interesting nevertheless. The piece ends however on a maze of hallucinated piano which is not without reminding some previous works of the group.

The 3rd track "seems" more conventional, it is not. Suggestive voices repeating crazy, a small incursion of a few seconds in the music hall, and we come back to a rather jerky piece that would not have been out of place on a Syd Barrett album.

Zero The Hero And The Witch's Spell", is maybe the most Canterbury track of all, but not by much because the cosmic journey of the Teapot continues towards distant and agitated galaxies...

The flying teapot closes on the last track which is not the most surprising, we end with a more academic touch, and a little more "calm".

I give a 4/5 to this excellent album of jazz and space rock, I think it will become one of my bedside CDs. I praise its universe, its sweet madness, the universe he built in only 35 minutes and which still seems to me very solid 49 years later. I don't give it a higher rating because the album has some weak moments (especially the last track), but overall it's still excellent and tasty to listen to for Canterbury/space rock fans.

By the way, the cover of the album was again a criterion of selection for me as often in this kind of music. This one is quite atypical. **A special mention for DAVID AELLEN, behind the majority of the songs as author or co-writer and who undeniably brings a poetic and melodic touch to this acid opus.