Gong & its offshoots - Ambient Stuff

Thought I would start a thread on that great UK, French and Australian trip group Gong and some of its many offshoots.

Ill start the thread proper with an audio clip of the groups ex- keyboard and synth player Tim Blake aka H T Moonweed which of course I borrowed my user name from, enjoy dudes. Will keep adding when I come across more stuff.

Tim Blake - Synthese Intemporel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_MN5jE6TKk

can't have a Gong thread without Steve Hillage's "Rainbow Dome Musick"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbJpM0x0j0

dAng this music is good!

I love Gong too btw. And the new ambient CDs under Micro Cosmic & Daevid Allen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW7E0ayQLck

This is without doubt my favourite piece by an ex-Gong member, I Am by Daevid Allen from his brilliant 1977 album Now is the Happiest Time of your Life, like the Hillage track it uses glissando guitar in such a wonderful,wonderful way, theres cowbells to create the herds walking through the Deya mountains in Catalan Spain, Gilli Smyth and her Space Whisper. This so moves me to tears my favourite chill track of all time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILv2tuDhHs

Gong - The Other Side of the Sky, from their 1974 Angels Egg album, with a few vocals, a bit rocky and spacey, but becomes a nice ambient piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP05m40spQw

Gong - The Isle of Everywhere (live) from the live 1977 album Gong Est Mort, more spacey, funky, trip jazz stuff with an ambient feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzOKxv9m0Bg

  On 6/22/2011 at 11:05 PM, Hi T Moonweed said:

This is without doubt my favourite piece by an ex-Gong member, I Am by Daevid Allen from his brilliant 1977 album Now is the Happiest Time of your Life, like the Hillage track it uses glissando guitar in such a wonderful,wonderful way, theres cowbells to create the herds walking through the Deya mountains in Catalan Spain, Gilli Smyth and her Space Whisper. This so moves me to tears my favourite chill track of all time.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILv2tuDhHs

ermmm... yeah, great album.. but just to clarify: Deyà is actually in Mallorca (northwest of the island)...

btw/ great players on that album: Joan Bibiloni (Mallorca's finest), Victor Peraino (of Arhur Brown /Kingdom's Come fame), Sam Gopal...

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