Artist: Gong
Genre(s):
Rock
Experimental
Rock: Electronic
Discography:
E2x10=tenure
Year: 2001
Tracks: 9
Zero to Infinity
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Live to Infinitea
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Gong Est Mort
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
You Remixed Phase 2
Year: 1997
Tracks: 5
You Remixed Phase 1
Year: 1997
Tracks: 8
A Wingful of Eyes
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Time Is The Key
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Shapeshifter
Year: 1992
Tracks: 21
Expresso II
Year: 1990
Tracks: 6
Gongmaison
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
Second Wind
Year: 1988
Tracks: 11
Downwind
Year: 1979
Tracks: 7
Planet Gong (Live)
Year: 1977
Tracks: 6
Now Is The Happiest Time Of Your Life
Year: 1977
Tracks: 9
Live Etc
Year: 1977
Tracks: 3
Live
Year: 1977
Tracks: 7
Gong Est Morte
Year: 1977
Tracks: 10
Gazeuse
Year: 1976
Tracks: 6
Shamal
Year: 1975
Tracks: 6
You
Year: 1974
Tracks: 8
Live Au Bataclan - Paris
Year: 1973
Tracks: 1
Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2)
Year: 1973
Tracks: 15
Angel's Egg
Year: 1973
Tracks: 15
Continental Circus
Year: 1971
Tracks: 4
Magick Brother
Year: 1970
Tracks: 10
Daevid Allen
Year: 1966
Tracks: 2
The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)
Year:
Tracks: 6
Paragong - Live '73
Year:
Tracks: 1
Flying Teapot
Year:
Tracks: 3
Camenbert Electrique
Year:
Tracks: 11
Camembert Electrique
Year:
Tracks: 11
Gong slowly came together in the recent '60s when Australian guitar player Daevid Allen (ex-Soft Machine) began making music with his married woman, isaac Bashevis Singer Gilli Smyth, on with a shifty lineup of supporting musicians. Albums from this geological period include Magick Brother, Mystic Sister (1969) and the impromptu wad seance Bananamoon (1971) featuring Robert Wyatt from the Soft Machine, Gary Wright from Spooky Tooth, and Maggie Bell. A unwavering lineup featuring Frenchman Didier Malherbe (saxophone and reeds), Christian Tritsch (bass part), and Pip Pyle (drums) on with Allen (glissando guitar, vocals) and Gilli Smyth (space whispering vocals) was officially named Gong and released Camembert Electrique in late 1971, as comfortably as providing the soundtrack to the cinema Continental Circus and music for the album Obsolete by French poet Dashiel Hedayat.
Camembert Electrique contained the number 1 signs of the band's mythology of the peaceable Planet Gong populated by Radio Gnomes, Pothead Pixies, and Octave Doctors. These characters on with Zero the Hero ar the focal point of Gong's next three albums, the Radio Gnome Trilogy, consisting of Fast Teapot (1973), Angel's Egg (1974), and You (1975). On these albums, agonist Zero the Hero is a space traveller from Earth wHO gets mazed and finds the Planet Gong, is taught the slipway of that humankind by the gnomes, pixies, and Octave Doctors and is sent back to Earth to spread the word around this mystic planet. The band themselves adoptive nicknames -- Allen was Bert Camembert or the Dingo Virgin, Smyth was Shakti Yoni, Malherbe was Bloomdido Bad de Grasse, Tritsch was the Submarine Captain and Pyle the Heap. Over the course of action of the trilogy, Tritsch and Pyle left and were replaced by Mike Howlett (bass part) and Pierre Moerlen (drums). New members Steve Hillage (guitar) and Tim Blake (synthesizers) linked.
After You, Allen, Hillage, and Smyth left the chemical group referable to originative differences as advantageously as tiredness. Guitarist Allen Holdsworth linked and the ring drifted into virtuosic if uninventive jazz spinal fusion. Hillage and Allen each released various solo albums and Smyth formed Mothergong. Nevertheless the trilogy lineup has reunited for a few one-off concerts including a 1977 French concert documented on the splendid Tam-tam Est Mort, Vive Gong album. Allen too reunited with Malherbe and Pyle as well as other musicians he had collaborated with over the years for 1992's Shapeshifter record album. Hillage too worked as the ambient-techno false name System 7. A number of Gong-related bands feature existed over the geezerhood, including Mothergong, Gongzilla, Pierre Moerlin's Gong, NY Gong, Planet Gong, and Gongmaison. During the new millennium Gong material continued to be released, including Live 2 Infinitea issued in come down 2000, as comfortably as legion reissues. I Am Your Egg appeared in 2006 from United States of Distribution.
