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MUSIC - I AM YOUR EGG
GILLI SMYTH - DAEVID ALLEN - ORLANDO ALLEN
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Where does creative energy go when it is not coming out in playing and doing tours? It creates an inner volcano, which pours into recording, as has been happening throughout this year, with Daevid Allen, Orlando Allen, and Gilli Smyth. Now a collaboration of songs and cinematic pieces - a wide spectrum ranging from fast drums, punky bass and driving chant ('Sacrifice') to "visual" scenarios ('End St. Station' and 'Palestine') to melodic songs ('Melting Love' and Daevid's 'Ship of Fools'), and featuring animal voices, opera singers, haunting flutes, mellifluous speaking voices, a couple of orchestral pieces, and "Playbacks" type loops, created by Daevid, who also wrote the glissando/guitar piece 'River Song' with Harry Williamson. Some of the new pieces were intended for the remake, or sequel, to 2001's 'It's all a Dream", by Orlando and Gilli However, Orlando left for Europe, and so Gilli took those pieces as the basis for the album, and added several more by her and Daevid, most of which are entirely new. Some have guitars by Josh and Makoto from AcidMothersGong, from the You'n'gong time in 2003, worked by Orlando into soundscapes ('Memory', 'Time Dilation'). Gilli conceived and produced the album, (production on their individual songs by Daevid and Orlando), it was engineered by Greg McClain and the cover Art is by Daevid. There are many contrasts and surprises in some of the landscapes, interspersed by themes of great beauty, as there has generally been with Gong music, innovating, not following any one style.
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