Gong

You

 Gong

Label: Charly

 SNAP148CD

 CD

Price:  £ 8.80  (£7.65 outside EU)

 

'You' is undoubtedly the most sophisticated and best produced Gong album, its highlights including 'Master Builder', a gentle Buddhist chant which developed into a frantic live favourite, and the extended, synthesizer-driven 'A Sprinkling Of Clouds'.

One of the wackiest and most innovative groups of the early Seventies, Gong's communal lifestyle and fascination with Eastern mysticism epitomised the hippy ideal of the day.

 Their music blended jazz-influenced space-rock, psychedelia and bizarre experimentation with a distinct sense of humour.

Recorded in late 1973, 'You' is the final instalment of the group's 'Radio Gnome Invisible' trilogy, made up by the earlier albums 'Flying Teapot' and 'Angel's Egg'.

 It was the last Gong album made before the departures of both its founder member and driving force Daevid Allen and its inspired guitarist Steve Hillage, who was soon to embark on his highly successful solo career.

'You' is undoubtedly the most sophisticated and best produced Gong album, its highlights including 'Master Builder', a gentle Buddhist chant which developed into a frantic live favourite, and the extended, synthesizer-driven 'A Sprinkling Of Clouds'.

Tracklisting

1. Thoughts For Naught
2. A P.H.P.'S Advice
3. Magick Mother Invocation
4. Master Builder
5. A Sprinkling Of Clouds
6. Perfect Mystery
7. The Isle Of Everywhere
8. You Never Blow Your Trip Forever.

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