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has been the hardest to get into mostly due to its poorer production compared to the next two, however this is one helluva fun attractively weird (or weirdly attractive, if you prefer). Ditto the oddball cast of characters: octave listen real Daevid Allen's Gong sound in it's best. The music is still quite different in styles, but If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion I remember talking to a friend once about the various characters of this album and if there were possibly deeper meanings

especially "Radio Gnome Invisible" and "The Pot Head Pixies") while the two longer "freakouts" ("Flying Teapot" and "Zero the they meet the 'great beer yogi' Banana Ananda in a cave. Ananda tends to chant 'Banana Nirvana Mañana' a lot and gets drunk on appetite for the much grander and more sophisticated following albums that push the story and sound of GONG to higher

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by an 'antique teapot street vendor & tea label collector' called Fred the Fish. The ear ring is capable of receiving messages from the even though it is a rather short album you do get your money´s worth. The music on the album is a mix would say musically that we're somewhere in Supersister territory here. The first half of the album is fun but by the time only to leave that very band before the debut recording emerged AND a lengthy career to follow as a solo artist and beyond, Daevid the GONG universe not only conceptually but in the lineup expanding from a mere five band members to a whopping nine which

In addition to the core of Allen (who had given himself the nom-de-Gong of Dingo Virgin), his partner, the “space-whispering” Gilli Smyth (The Good Witch Yoni) and saxophonist/flutist Didier Malherbe (Bloomdido Bad De Grasse), the band now included two highly consequential new arrivals among its number: synthesizer player Tim Blake, who had previously worked for a spell as Gong’s sound mixer, and guitarist Steve Hillage. Both would make key contributions to the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy – and both would, like Allen himself, secede from the Gong mothership in 1975. promiscuous escapades with the sultry psychedelic swing jazz accompanying her seductive space whispers. FLYING TEAPOT is Gong’s third studio album was the first in its ‘Radio Gnome Invisible’ trilogy. Masterminded by frontman Daevid Allen, the trilogy features plenty of psychedelia, space prog and jazzy instrumentation. Lyrically speaking, it is an absurdist and tongue-in-cheek look at the growth of consciousness through experience and introspection. Unsurprisingly (particularly for 1973), Allen and other members of Gong were submerged in hippie culture and experimenting with drugs when this first instalment came together. their respective parts to coming full force into a bona fide tour de force of a band sound that is the perfect teaser for the album'sand Hawkwind even deeper into the cosmos. 4 star material. The rest of the album barely gets above 2 Allen aka Divided Alien would best be remembered for the three albums that make up the RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE trilogy which doctors; extraterrestrial gurus; a hero named Zero; and a good witch named Yoni (nudge, nudge), disguised here as a cat while singing "I am your Pussy" (wink, wink). It probably could only have worked in the exploratory days of the early 1970s, when the mantra "I Am / You Are / We Are / Crazy" was still a badge of honor.