Gong - Gongmasion Est-ce Que Je Suis "Live at the Fridge"

Gong - Gongmasion Est-ce Que Je Suis
From the DVD "Live at the Fridge" available on www.voiceprint.co.uk along with other great Gong Albums

Tracks on the DVD;
1. Fohat 2. Pretty Miss Titty 3. Om Riff 4. Est-ce Que Je Suis 5. Radio 6. Gnome Oh Mother 7. Dynamite 9. Shepherd of the Clouds 10. Kaliplege 11. Selene/band intros 12. You and I
Gong came into being almost by accident in the late sixties when Daevid Allen was refused entry back into Britain following European dates with Soft Machine. Deciding to stay in Paris Allen began working alongside Gilli Smyth and various musicians on what would eventually be recognised as Gong. The first recognised recordings from the band were Magick Brother, Mystic Sister in 1970. Followed by albums such as Camembert Electrique, Flying Teapot, Angels Egg and You. These last three albums followed the fortunes of Zero The Hero and told the tale of the pothead pixies and was told over the course of the next three albums and became the Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy. This mythological story was extremely popular and the resultant albums sold exceptionally well however following the departure of core members Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth and Steve Hillage citing the age old musical differences reason for leaving the band Gong moved in a more jazz oriented direction with the addition of Allan Holdsworth alongside Pierre Moerlen and Didier Malherbe. Allen, Smyth and Hillage have all recorded as solo artists and Smyth subsequently formed the offshoot Mother Gong. Occasionally the three have re united as was seen by the release of the live Gong album recorded in 1977.

Various permutations of Gong have worked together over the years under various names including Mother Gong, Expresso Gong, Gongmaison, Planet Gong and so on and so forth and also included an amazing array of musical talent moving through the ranks.

Gongmaison came about after Daevid Allen's return to the UK and more importantly following a French gig with former Gong member Didier Malherbe deciding to work with Didier again in a line up of Gong. The subsequent Gongmaison was formed in April 1989 The band took their name as it alluded to the mixture of house/jazz that the band played at the time which in fact was nearer house music although still contained all the relevant Gong elements of old. This performance comes from the bands performance in the early nineties and was filmed at the Fridge in Brixton. The line up includes key members of Gong Daevid Allen, Didier Malherbe and Gilli Smyth.

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• Suis
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• Daevid
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• Mother
• Expresso
• Planet
• Jazz
• House

[OriTheEep]

Love the track list of the DVD at 01:22 Radio Gnome Oh Mother

Further on there is Selene band intros

Must see this Selene band some day! Oh and Mr VoiceprintTV has them like that in the description as well :)

Never mind. Joking apart, it is welcome to see this material being made available - both here and on DVD. Must start saving some pennies!

[VoiceprintTV]

Whoops!! - oh well enjoy!

[lolsean]

Actually as a reply to that joyless prick droogless,Allen advocated a drug free lifestyle as far back as 73. The whole 'gong mythology' was a pythonesque stab at the rather boring po faced political stance taken by their musical contemporaries.There really is no need to hate a bunch of immature hippys, who eventually grew up having taken mainly positive things from their youthful experimentation. Did some nasty hippy mess up Droogless and Burgersoft777.RELAX BOYS.

[and3583]

Yeah that sucks. Bet Gong didn't ask for that. "Vive l'anarchie flottante"

[ElronHubbard]

@lolsean AND (end rant here) thirdly, thanks for defending the boys from haters at least /wink

[ElronHubbard]

@ElronHubbard and the rest of my rant...

Do you reflexive attempt to bring everything you encounter down to the level of the mundane? Yeah, this reply is way way late, but this guys bs needs to be countered. He really thinks Invisible Temples, Octave Doctors and such were satirical polotical statements? THATS 'python-esque' obsurdity!

[ElronHubbard]

@lolsean

I beg to differ. Daevid 'advocated' a drug free lifestyle for himself. I don't believe he ever told others they should not do as they would like. As for the rest of your statement, you have no idea what your talking about. The Gong trilogy was certainly full of humor and obsurdity, and some political content here and there, but theres MUCH more to it. I bet you think your an expert on every band and what there intentions were, dont you? Who are you to judge them as 'immature'.

[gcviolin2]

The good old days!

hehehheheheh

gc

[midpack]

fuck me thats good !!

[OriTheEep]

I did!

Thanks :)

[kuadz]

Non ne fanno più così!!!