Daevid Allen

New York Gong - About Time (1980/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at March 5, 2024

New York Gong - About Time (1980/2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 37:06 minutes | 786 MB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

About Time is a 1980 album by Daevid Allen and Gong offshoot New York Gong. The basic line-up of New York Gong would continue without Allen as Material.

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Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead! (2016) [2CD Limited Edition] (Repost) Music

Posted by gribovar at March 22, 2025

You Can't Kill Me is the title of an early Gong song from the album Camembert Electrique (1971) where Daevid Allen sang that you can kill the body but not the spirit. In a sense it is also the essence of this new album, to have his spirit live on in the music.
Back in October 2012 when Gong played at the Boerderij in Zoetermeer Allen introduced his band as the new generation of Gong. And shortly before he passed away in March 2015 in a statement published on his website he specifically encouraged the band to continue without him. He always wanted the band to be a collective, not depending on one or more individuals including himself. He had left the band before, in 1975, and after his departure Gong carried on for a few years led by Steve Hillage, Didier Malherbe and Pierre Moerlen…

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Soft Machine - Live In Paris May 2nd, 1972 (2004) Music

Posted by ciklon5 at April 18, 2024

Soft Machine - Live In Paris May 2nd, 1972 (2004)
FLAC (tracks+.cue,log,scans) / MP3 320 kbps | 1:45:05 | 256 / 672 Mb
Genre: Fusion, Jazz-Rock

Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966, named after the novel The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs.Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist Daevid Allen moved to Paris in 1960. Inspired by the emerging 'Beat Generation' of writer's works he'd discovered whilst working in a Melbourne bookshop he moved into a room in Paris's 'Beat Hotel' and spent time around the city's Latin Quarter. There, he rubbed shoulders with Terry Riley and William S. Burroughs, gaining free access to the area's jazz clubs. Influenced by the music philosophies of Sun Ra he formed the Daevid Allen Trio, a free-jazz outfit which performed in Burroughs' theatre pieces based on that writer's novel 'The Ticket That Exploded'.In 1961 Allen travelled to Canterbury, England, where he met 16 year-old Robert Wyatt (who was the son of his landlord). Their mutual interest in jazz resulted in a few gigs, in London in 1963, as the Daevid Allen Trio (with Hugh Hopper on bass and Mike Ratledge occasionally guesting on piano). Around the same time, Wyatt formed the Wilde Flowers with the Hopper brothers, Hugh and Brian Hopper, with Kevin Ayers on vocals.

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Gong - I See You (2014) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Nov. 10, 2014

The enduring legend that is Gong - multi-National, multi-dimensional Psychedelic combo - enters yet another new phase on their four-decades plus journey with I See You, a brand new album to be released on the Madfish label. The current incarnation of Gong comprises vocalist / lyricist Daevid Allen, who, even at the age of seventy-five, still radiates an incandescent creativity, the original anarchic vibe that was born out of counter-culture revolution in the Paris commune in 1968.

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Gong - Best Of Gong (1996) Music

Posted by Designol at Jan. 16, 2024

French exclusive 13-track CD album compiling the best work from the legendary progressive freaksters including key cuts from Camembert Electrique Flying Teapot and Angels Egg; sealed digipak sleeve. Anarchic, experimental, and whimsical ensemble originally led by guitarist Daevid Allen, a founding member of the Soft Machine.

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Gong - Flying Teapot: Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1 (1973) {1990, Reissue} Music

Posted by popsakov at June 6, 2023

Gong - Flying Teapot: Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1 (1973) {1990, Reissue}
EAC Rip | FLAC (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 215 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 93 Mb
Full Scans | 00:37:10 | RAR 5% Recovery
Psychedelic Rock, Progressive Rock, Space Rock, Canterbury Scene | Decal #CD LIK 67

Flying Teapot is the third studio album by the progressive rock band Gong, originally released by Virgin Records in May 1973. Subtitled Radio Gnome Invisible, Part 1, it is the first of the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy of albums, followed by Angel's Egg in December and You the following October. This trilogy forms a central part of the Gong mythology. The Flying Teapot idea itself was influenced by Russell's teapot. It was the first Gong album to feature English guitarist Steve Hillage, although he contributed relatively little as he arrived late in the recording process. According to Daevid Allen, "Steve Hillage arrived eventually, but there wasn't a lot of space left. He played some rhythmick wa wa [sic], some jazzy chords and a spacey solo on 'Flying Teapot'." In the Q & Mojo Classic Special Edition Pink Floyd & The Story of Prog Rock, the album came #35 in its list of "40 Cosmic Rock Albums".

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Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead! (2016) Music

Posted by SERTiL at Sept. 16, 2016

Gong have entered yet another new phase on their four-decades plus journey with Rejoice! I'm Dead!, their brand new studio album, due for release on Madfish on September 16th 2016. This is the follow up to 2014's I See You the last album Daevid Allen was to record with Gong.

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Gong - Gong Est Mort, Vive Gong (1977) [2015, Belle Antique Japan, BELLE-152443-4] Music

Posted by v3122 at March 11, 2021

Gong - Est Mort, Vive Gong (1977)
EAC | Flac(Image) + Cue + Log & MP3 CBR 320Kbps
Belle Antique, BELLE-152443-4 | ~ 505 or 184 Mb | Scans(png) -> 169 Mb
Psychedelic Rock / Prog Rock

Live album recorded during the first « Gong reunion » in May 28, 1977 in Hippodrome de Pantin (Paris), organised by Jacques Pasquier. The classic Gong line-up with founder Daevid Allen didn’t exist anymore at this date, but reconvened for this event, which also featured all bands formed by ex or current Gong members : Daevid Allen with Euterpe, Didier Malherbe’s Bloom, the « official » Gong led by Pierre Moerlen, Mike Howlett’s Strontium 90, Tim Blake’s Crystal Machine, Steve Hillage’s band etc…

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Soft Machine - Hidden Details (2018) Music

Posted by Domestos at Sept. 13, 2018

Soft Machine - Hidden Details (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 357.66 Mb + 164.25 Mb (Scans) | 59:57
Jazz-Rock, Prog Rock | Country: UK | Label: Moonjune Records / MJR093

Formed in Canterbury, UK in 1966 - Disbanded in 1984 (SM members would reconvene under several monikers along the years) - Reformed in 2015. The band started playing as such in 1966 but their first record, a single, came out in 1967. The very last concert was in 1984 at Ronnie Scott's on July 30/31 and August 1-4. Band members at that concert were Paul Carmichael (bass), John Etheridge, Karl Jenkins, Dave McRae (once upon a time keyboard player with Matching Mole), Ray Warleigh and John Marshall.

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VA: Romantic Warriors III - Special Features DVD - Got Canterbury? (2016) Music

Posted by v3122 at Oct. 18, 2019

VA: Romantic Warriors III - Special Features DVD - Got Canterbury? (2016)
DVD9: NTSC 16:9 (720x480) VBR | Dolby AC3, 2 ch, 224 Kbps
Progressive Rock | Zeitgeist Media | Scans | ~ 8.11 Gb

Romantic Warriors III - Got Canterbury? Special Features DVD (2016) is the companion DVD to the highly acclaimed documentary "Romantic Warriors III - Canterbury Tales" that was released in 2015. "Got Canterbury?" contains almost 5 hours of new footage, including the remaining (and last) interviews with Daevid Allen, and pioneering promoter Giorgio Gomelsky. Also on the DVD: Live performances of bands that were featured in the film, including Forgas Band Phenomena, The Wrong Object, Soft Machine Legacy, and American bands Glass and The Muffins…

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