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Gong – Endless Ascending
(Kscope)
CD / LP / Digital
Out 3 November
Nathan Brown listens to Gong within the publish Daevid Allen period, and experiences they’re nonetheless churning out floaty psychedelic and ambient tunes.
Relationship again to 1969 and a part of the commune dwelling hippy counter tradition, Gong have been round over 50 years. Incentive and playfully mischievous, they had been positively certainly one of a sort.
It appears unfair to evaluate the longest lineup of this band towards the unique, or does it? For those who point out Gong, persons are most likely anticipating Camembert Electrique, Flying Teapots, Pothead Pixies or possibly the punk period experimentation of Planet Gong (the most effective of the incarnations IMO, however then I might say that). Anybody who is aware of what the present lineup sound like doesn’t want telling, so it is a caveat emptor warning for individuals anticipating Gong of outdated.
While some could also be dissatisfied, this appears like an applicable continuation whenever you discover out the band members had been hand-picked by Daevid Allen “following his intent that his mystical imaginative and prescient for a gaggle be continued after his passing”. It might be fairly boring to simply churn out broadly the identical stuff so an evolution of the sound is to be anticipated. It’s simply that the manic chaos that Daevid Allen delivered to Gong is so patently lacking.
This album is psychedelic no doubt and the bizarre jazzy time signatures that typified Gong of their heyday are nonetheless current. The “correct” singing and extremely hello constancy of the recording and lack of that trace of chaos leans just a little in the direction of Pink Floyd, Ozric Tentacles or Steve Hillage’s solo work.
Crisp guitar solos and Jap sounding scales play off towards whooshing and shimmering keyboards. The saxophone switches between jazzy parps and a wailing echo fest which is what actually cements this as a Gong file. The rhythm part are continually at work, cheeky further drum fills dropped into each obtainable house.
Of all of the songs, All Clocks Reset has many of the quirky substances you’d anticipate from the band with the time signature jumps and about turns you’d anticipate from the likes of the Cardiacs (whose Kavus Torabi is on this line up of Gong).
If floaty or ambient listening is your factor it will most likely be proper up your avenue. It truly is one for pothead pixies. For those who’re not stoned you might discover this makes your head spin or wish to smash up the stereo. Will go down nicely with followers of Caravan, Ozrics, Steve Hillage and, nicely…. Gong.
Obtainable on CD, digital and Black or restricted version Inexperienced LP.
Hyperlinks
https://gongband.bandcamp.com
https://www.fb.com/officialgong
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