Gong - Angels Egg
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Artist: GongEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-12-28
Music Label: Virgin
Soundtracks:
- Other Side Of The Sky
- Sold To The Highest Buddha
- Castle In The Clouds
- Prostitute Poem
- Givin My Luv To You
- Selene
- Flute Salad
- Oily Way
- Outer Temple
- Inner Temple
- Percolations
- Love Is How Y Make It
- I Never Glid Before
- Eat That Phone Book Coda
- Other Side Of The Sky (Single Version)
- Ooby-Scooby Doomsday Or The D-day DJ's Got The D.D.T. Blues
- Love Is How Y Make It (1973 Vocal Mix)
- Eat That Phone Book Coda (Early Version)
Music reviews of Angels Egg
Music Review: Excellent remaster of a classic psych/whimsey album
Rating: 5 Stars
As I wrote in my review of the Japanese remaster of "Flying Teapot", for those who have no idea what the band is about, it is a hippy/new age story with a great deal of Australian whimsey, set to a sound that is definitely psychedelic, but with true musical ability - which really starts to shine on this album, and culminates on the last part of the "Radio Gnome" trilogy, "You".
The remaster is excellent - while the age of the recording allows a bit of background tape hiss to be audible at the very soft beginning of the first track, that is a minor point. The sound is very clear and crisp - really better than I expected from a recording of this era.
As for the music, here we find the focus shifting from the Daevid Allen-dominated quirkiness of "Flying Teapot" and the earlier Gong albums to progressive space-rock with a jazz tinge. Guitarist Steve Hillage begins to step forward as the player and writer who would so greatly influence an entire generation of neo-psych bands from Ozric Tentacles to Porcupine Tree (their early work, not the more metal sound of the last several albums) and countless others. Tim Blake's synthesizers bubble and phase with an effectiveness that the German artists of the era (e.g. Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream) only wish they could accomplish. But it's the sax and flute of Didier Malherbe that really make the sound unique, adding the afore-mentioned jazzish tone and sensibility (with some help from drummer Pierre Moerlen and percussionist Mirielle Bauer). Allen and poetess/space whisperer Gilli Smyth still add their indiosyncratic words and sounds (and whatever one thinks of Allen's ditties, his glissando guitar is simply the best space instrument ever), but no longer overwhelm the creativity of the rest of the band.
I still rate this the second best of the Gong albums - "You" to me is where they reached their peak, and so to "make room" as it were for that truly 5-star album, I really would probably give this four and a half stars. Some might find the whimsical bits still a bit distracting. But where this album hits its peak (the space/rock/jazz of the opening "Other Side of the Sky", the poignancy of emotional lyrical duality and French cafe sound of "Prostitute Poem", the infectious Malherbe-dominated pop-with-a-brain-and-soul of "Oily Way", the perfect mixture of hippy dream lyrics and jazz marimba of "Love Is How You Make It", the soaring Hillage guitar that hints of things to come of "I Never Glid Before", and the rollicking Malherbe coda "Eat That Phone Book") there is a freshness and vision that sets it apart from anything else in the psychedelic music (in the general sense) universe. Highly recommended.
Description of Angels Egg
Remastered reissue of the second installment in the Daevid Allen & Gong trilogy, originally released by Charly in 1973. Includes previously unreleased bonus tracks. Details TBA. Virgin. 2004.Alternative Rock CDs
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