#Upcoming “Live Floating Anarchy 1977” is an historic one-off album from #PlanetGong with #DaevidAllen and #GilliSmyth. Comes with a printed inner-bag replicating the original French outer sleeve: "you can colour it yourself!" Newly restored and remastered via #CharlyRecs, October 25th. https://charlyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-floating-anarchy-1977
Live Floating Anarchy 1977, by Planet Gong

6 track album

Charly Records

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Gong - 'You' (1974) (2018 remaster)

Even more and more classic #Gong, featuring #DaevidAllen, #GilliSmyth, #TimBlake #DidierMalherbe & #SteveHillage. Psychedelic spacy rock, weird and infective stuff.

#NP: #NowPlaying:

Gong - 'Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2)' (1973) (2018 remaster)

Even more classic #Gong, featuring #DaevidAllen, #GilliSmyth, #TimBlake #DidierMalherbe & #SteveHillage. Psychedelic spacy rock, weird and infective stuff.
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#NP: #NowPlaying:

Gong - 'Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1)' (1973) (2019 remaster)

More classic #Gong, featuring #DaevidAllen, #GilliSmyth, #TimBlake & #SteveHillage. Psychedelic spacy rock, weird and infective stuff.
@gongplanet

Random observation: Listening to #MotherGong's Fairy Tales, and the weird spoken bits on this track (and elsewhere on the album) very strongly remind me of the weird spoken bits on #DavidBowie's Outside album. Wonder if Bowie knew the album?

Or is this a standard Mother Gong/ #GilliSmyth thing, so not specific to this album? This is the first I've heard of her, I've seen something about her vocals being called space whispers, not sure if that's what I'm referring to?

https://youtu.be/sjRtllnRF9w

Wassilissa: The Baba-Yaga's Cottage

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#GilliSmyth of #Gong & #MotherGong was a pioneering vocal experimenter, #poet, #feminist and #philosopher. Gilli pioneered a vocal technique which came to be known as Space Whisper, which she developed with Ziska Baum in Paris during the late 60s. Sometimes atonal sometimes beautiful vocal tones fed through immense reverb & delay, her vocals could have been mistaken for synthesizers, had not synths been comparatively primitive at the time.

An intellectual, feminist & anti-authoritarian, she rubbed shoulders with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir, Robert Graves, Yoko Ono & Jimi Hendrix. I was fortunate to consider her a good friend, and worked with her on several musical and creative projects, including her last album entitled "Paradise", as well as the unfinished project "Do Birds Dream in Song".

I will always deeply miss Gilli - the many long evenings on the balcony discussing art / philosophy / science over an endless succession of glasses of red wine and spliffs. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2024

https://iv.nboeck.de/watch?v=wSvW_O4V8Yo
Gong-Witch's Song/I Am Your Pussy (French TV 1973)

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Cats like Gong too. Izzy and Gilli 🖤

#Caturday #Gong #GilliSmyth #WitchsSong #IAmYourPussy

Steve Hillage - Light in the Sky

O bosib, y trac cynta i fi gofio caru gan #SteveHillage, diolch i chwaer fy ffrind Tony. O’n i’n dwlu ar y cytgan gyda’i gymysgedd o riff trwm a llais angelaidd #GilliSmyth (RIP).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WSgH9iQ69y0

Light In The Sky (2006 Digital Remastered)

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NEW post: "Gong’s music has been termed as rock of a progressive, psychedelic, jazz, trip, space type - all very true and often all at the same time" … 10 of their best tracks from the 70s    #daevidallen #gillismyth #stevehillage #planetgong #softmachine #70smusic @gongplanet https://www.toppermost.co.uk/daevid-allens-gong/
Daevid Allen’s Gong - Toppermost

Unlike their European contemporaries Hawkwind, Neu! Can, and Amon Düül II, the ever-evolving collective known as Gong were not nearly as well-known for their pioneering brand of psychedelic space rock with conceptual ideas that involved aliens and alternative realities. They were also among the first of these bands to embrace -- and welcome -- improvisation during the late '60s and '70s...

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Gilli Smyth & Mother Gong

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