Gong !!!

Une vidéo hal-lu-cinante de Gong en 72











20 minutes de bizarreries, de krautrock-camembert et d'AGSA souriant

"We come from a planet called the Planet Gong, it's a lovely green planet, right over the back of the sky and the astronomers have never discoverd it"

"So we came from this Planet Gong and we travelled not by flying saucer or even by flying teacup, but by flying teapot"

si je puis m'exprimer ainsi.
Néanmoins, cher Eric, ne m'en veux pas mais je crains de devoir, fort cruellement, t'ôter tes tes belles illusions : sur la 1ere vidéo, ce ne sont pas de VRAIS Pot Head Pixies que l'on voit, mais des musiciens du groupe Gong déguisés. Je suis vraiment désolé,mais ne sois pas triste : cela ne veut pas dire que les PHP's n'existent pas !

Un très court abrégé de la mythologie raconté aux enfants par Daevid :Tally & Orlando meet the PHP's

Gong dans sa période de ........ ???????????? ...... ????????????? transition !
Mais Daevid est souverainement classieux. Une chorégraphie qui laisse Kamel Bidule à des années-lumière !

ça à l'air de venir d'une émission française (Pop 2 devait être défunt à ce moment-là. Donc ... Rockenstock ?)

Je ne suis pas expert en smileys mais bon pour une fois



environ.


En revanche, la seconde vidéo postée par Eric a déjà disparu

Il y a sur le net une vidéo du concert ou je les ai vus en décembre à PAris


Gong live in Paris New Morning 16/10/12 par f698691497

Waouh, ils ont meme fait Selene

interview d'après concert

Très drôle le moment où l'interviewer ne comprend rien à ce que lui demande Daevid
Par ailleurs il lui fait dédicacer un You plutôt qu'un Camembert (m'enfin, c'est un vinyle ....).
Sinon, sur la relation Gong/Magma, Daevid dit tout ça dans Gong Dreaming. L'a l'air en pleine forme en tous cas.

Daevid a perdu son bol.
Sauras-tu le retrouver ?

De quoi s'agit-il ?

Y'a tout de même Hillage sur un titre, et Malherbe sur deux autres !
Dommage que ça ne soit que des guests cela dit, je me demande comment va sonner Gong sans Allen.
Je ne sais quand même pas trop quoi en penser des quelques (courts) extraits. C'est pas mauvais, ça sonne comme du Gong (parfois c'est du mimétisme), mais c'est pas Gong quoi.
Par contre je n'aime pas la voix.

Citation :

Gong have had many, many line-ups. Formed when Australian beatnik/freak Daevid Allen quit The Soft Machine and moved to France at the tail end of the ’60s, before debuting in 1970 with Magick Brother, the band have remained fluid, even playing without their founder from the mid-to-late ’70s, fracturing and reassembling and constantly taking on new shapes and forms: an undeniably amorphous unit. 

David Bowie told Vanity Fayre in 2003 that Daevid Allen’s Banana Moon is one of his favourite albums, and today everyone from indie artists Temples and Ty Segall to hip hop artist Madlib and techno DJ Surgeon are inspired, and borrow, from Gong’s music and ideology. The funky grooves, avant-garde flourishes and counter-cultural stance is timeless. So timeless that Gong fully exists even without their creator and guiding light. For those who are unaware, Daevid Allen died in March 2015.
                 
“I have been co-presenting The Interesting Alternative Show with Steve Davis for the last six years or so,” begins the story of how Gong’s new singer/guitarist Kavus Torabi met Daevid. “In 2011, Steve rang up excitedly saying ‘You'll never guess who we've got as a guest next week... Daevid Allen.’ I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I'd met Daevid briefly a couple of times with Tim Smith [Cardiacs] but never properly. As a lifelong Gong lover, this filled me with delight. Straight away the two of us seemed to really click, within minutes the conversation had taken a turn for the absurd and I was more than a little flattered when he told me, after about an hour, ‘You're a poet man, I can tell.’
                 
“Over the forthcoming months we would text each other on a fairly regular basis, whenever Daevid was in town playing a gig he'd get in touch to see if I wanted to come along. ‘I've been thinking about this a lot,’ he told me, ‘Do you want to play guitar in Gong?’ This came somewhat out of the blue. ‘But you've never actually heard me play, Daevid’ I told him. ‘I don't need to,’ he replied. ‘I felt the same way about Mike Howlett when I met him too and I'm never wrong about this stuff.’ Of course I said ‘Yes’ instantly. ‘You know, I can't play like Steve Hillage,’ I told him. His response was priceless, ‘I don't care about what you can't do, I care about what you can do.’
                 
“Since being a teenager, I have often come up with riffs that, while I loved them, had to be shelved because I always felt they sounded a little TOO much like Gong. One of which I started playing. Daevid got up and started improvising lyrics and melodies over the top, his beautiful eyes twinkling. This would become ‘When God Shakes Hands With The Devil (from I See You).’ ‘Wow Kav!’ Daevid said afterwards, ‘Got any more like that?’ Realising that 20 years or so of shelved riffs had not gone to waste, I blurted out ‘Yeah! Fucking loads!’
                 
Kavus joined Gong in 2014 in time for the last album the “new” band made with Daevid, I See You, unaware of the direction his new gig as a guitar player would take. “It was shortly after our Brazilian tour in March 2014 that, following a broken arm, Daevid told us that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would be unable to fulfill the 47 date world tour that had been booked to promote [the album]. To my, and I guess all of our, minds there was no question that he would beat this thing. The most enlightened and switched on guy I ever knew, with light shooting out of every pore, he seemed indomitable. Nonetheless, he started making noises about how he wished the band to continue without him. I think everyone in the band felt ambivalent about this, particularly as we watched the majority of the gigs get cancelled upon news that he was too unwell to fulfill them. I certainly had no desire to front it. I have my own band Knifeworld in which I play this role. We did, however, have a new album to promote, so we reluctantly agreed to play the remaining shows and bow out gracefully after that. Each night we sent Daevid recordings or links to YouTube footage and, from his sick bed in Australia, he wrote gushing praise about what had happened to the band and how this was exactly what he had hoped. By the end of the tour and with the full blessing of Daevid we decided to carry on.
                 
“Rejoice! I'm Dead! came together over several weeks in an East London rehearsal studio. In terms of the writing, the songs became very elastic, what may have been brought to the band as a fixed idea, through experimenting, discarding, expanding and mutating evolved into the songs as you hear them now. Every member was key in the development of each song,” closes Kavus. Thus, Kavus (vocals/guitar), Fabio Golfetti (guitar/vocals), Dave Sturt (bass/vocals), Ian East (sax/flute) and Cheb Nettles (drums/vocals) took on the mantle of steering the Teapot further into outer space and the inner ear.
 

                 

On the album you’ll also notice the voice of Daevid in an early song idea rehearsal, along with Gong alumni Steve Hillage, Didier Malherbe and Graham Clark. Fans of the  “Virgin trilogy” won’t be let down!     
                 
In the words of bassist Dave Sturt: “You bet it's a fucking Gong record!”
                 
It depends on your knowledge of Gong history and what constitutes as a Gong record, but if Rejoice! I'm Dead! is classified as their 28th album the Gong legacy is the strongest it has been since 1974. Consider the differences between Angel’s Egg, Gazeuse!, Floating Anarchy and I See You, the various splinter projects and collectives… what is it that make Gong who they are? Their spontaneity and numerous Phoenix-like rebirths – this is just the latest installment. Nothing more, nothing less. New members and old coalesce, the sound unmistakably Gong.

Even without Daevid Allen Gong will continue.
                 
And long may it do so.

Bizarre d'appeleer ça un disque de Gong,
je sais que la marque fait vendre

mais ils auraient pu trouver un nom différent
on a eu Paragong, Mother Gong a un moment

ils auraient pu appeler ça Post Gong ou je sais pas quoi

Gong Bong

Eric a écrit:

Bizarre d'appeleer ça un disque de Gong,
je sais que la marque fait vendre

mais ils auraient pu trouver un nom différent
on a eu Paragong, Mother Gong a un moment

ils auraient pu appeler ça Post Gong ou je sais pas quoi

Pierre Moerlen avait déjà fait le coup, mais pour faire une musique qui n'avait rien avoir avec Gong. Ceux-ci se réclament de l'héritage de Daevid apparemment, on est plus dans le plagiat non ? Sont-ce les musiciens qui jouaient dans 2032 ?

Là le groupe c'est 

Kavus (vocals/guitar)
Fabio Golfetti (guitar/vocals)
Dave Sturt (bass/vocals)
Ian East (sax/flute)
Cheb Nettles (drums/vocals)


et sur "I See You"

y a Orlando Allen (le fiston) à la batterie et bien sur Daevid au chant
mais sinon Kovus, Golfetti, East et Sturt étaient déjà là

Eric a écrit:

Là le groupe c'est 

Kavus (vocals/guitar)
Fabio Golfetti (guitar/vocals)
Dave Sturt (bass/vocals)
Ian East (sax/flute)
Cheb Nettles (drums/vocals)


et sur "I See You"

y a Orlando Allen (le fiston) à la batterie et bien sur Daevid au chant
mais sinon Kovus, Golfetti, East et Sturt étaient déjà là

C'est le groupe tel qu'il était lors de la précédente tournée, celle de "I See You" justement.
Vu en décembre 2014, les deux Allen, père et fils, ne jouaient plus dans le groupe. Le père, pour état de santé, comme on le sait.

Pour cette histoire de plagiat je suis assez d'accord, ça sonne comme tel.
Mais Allen avant son départ a souhaité que le groupe continue, il lui a donné sa bénédiction.
Il voulait que Gong traverse les âges, les générations, ... Bonne idée, mais sans Allen c'est plus Gong quoi...

voila,

ça me dérange pas du tout que ce groupe existe, mais qu'on ne le vende pas comme étant Gong