Gong
Refused entry to the UK, former Soft Machiner Daevid Allen remained in France and started Gong. Their earliest recordings take a cue from Barrett-era Floyd, but the hypnotic Continental Circus is underrated. Always maintaining a fluid line-up, things congealed enough for the classic Radio Gnome trilogy of albums. By 1975 however, Allen and Smyth headed down to Majorca, and the silliness subsided. Eventually Pierre Moerlen took over the helm, veering off into a full-fledged fusion outfit. Somewhere Daevid Allen summed up the Gong ethic quite simply - "take the most serious things in life with the least amount of seriousness." Gong were like that - either you got the joke or you didn't.
Founded: 1969
Location: Paris, France
Albums
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2032 | Studio | 2009-09-15 | |
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Acid Motherhood | Studio | 2004 | ||
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Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 2) | Studio | 1973-12 | |
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Camembert Electrique | Studio | 1971 | |
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Continental Circus | Soundtrack | 1971-01 | ||
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Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part 1) | Studio | 1973-05 | |
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Gong Est Mort | Live | 1977 | ||
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I See You | Studio | 2014-11 | ||
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Live Etc. | Live | 1977-08 | ||
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Live In Brazil 20 November 2007 | Live | 2009 | ||
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Live On TV 1990 | Live | 1993 | ||
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Magick Brother | Studio | 1970 | |
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Pulsing Signals | Live | 2022 | ||
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Rejoice! I'm Dead! | Studio | 2016-09-16 | ||
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Shamal | Studio | 1976 | |
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Shapeshifter | Studio | 1992-10-00 | ||
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The Universe Also Collapses | Studio | 2019 | |
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Unending Ascending | Studio | 2023-11-03 | |
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You | Studio | 1974-10 | |
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Zero To Infinity | Studio | 2000 |
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Camembert Eclectique | Compilation | 1995 | ||
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Glastonbury Fayre 1971 | Live | 2002-09 | ||
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Gong In The 70's | Compilation | 2006 | ||
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Gong On French TV 1971 - 1973 | Video | 2011 | ||
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Live À Longlaville 27/10/1974 | Live | 2021 | ||
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Live In Sherwood Forest '75 | Live | 2005 | ||
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Love From The Planet Gong (The Virgin Years 1973-75) | Compilation | 2019-09-27 | ||
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Paragong - Live '73 | Live | 1995 | ||
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Pre-Modernist Wireless: The Peel Sessions | Live | 1995 | ||
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The Mystery And The History Of The Planet Gong | Compilation | 1989 |
