1994 - VOICEPRINT VP 281 CD

"SIMPLE 1"

Music:
1-Simple I
2-Four Horsemen
3-Buddhas Birthday
4-Faces (with Tom the Poet)
5-Cafe reflections
6-The House is not the same (Lyrics by Henri Normal)
7-Tree II
8-Greenfields (at Glastonbury with Didier Malherbe and Shayamal Maitra)
9-Wilful Housewife
10-Song of Skye
11-Simple II
12-Short edit...La Dea Madri
13-She Smiled
14-Crying
15-Medecine Woman (with Kangeroo Moon at Bellingen)
16-Aere

Musicians:
Gilli Smyth : Works and Vocals
Harry Williamson : Keys, Guitars and Production
Robert Calvert : Saxophones and Philosophy
Robert George : Drums and Repercussions
Conrad Henderson : Basses

Some of this CD comes from a MOTHER GONG coast to coast U.S. tour in 1991, mainly solo, with supports to Big Brother and Holding Company and Bob Dylan. In Denver, they met Tom Burns, well-known jazz connaisseur with a jazz emporium and record label, Tapestry who put out this album in U.S.A.. Both from the tour and the studio (Spring Studio, Melbourne), the tracks were culled from improvisations, or in MOTHER GONG speak..... "spontaneous compositions", generally woven around the atmospheres of Gilli's poems.