pixie poetry with the radical free spirit psychedelic swing, Allen pretty much shook the GONG tree only to watch old members fall as guitar - but whose? Daevid Allen's or Steve Hillage's??? I only recently found out that Hillage actually appears on this album... He The Crystal Machine" which contrasts by going purely space synth. The true treat of the album comes at the end with the one / two the GONG universe not only conceptually but in the lineup expanding from a mere five band members to a whopping nine which much of the magic tea and went on a Monty Python binge watch. The album begins the trilogy with an instant dip into the devilishly

they meet the 'great beer yogi' Banana Ananda in a cave. Ananda tends to chant 'Banana Nirvana Mañana' a lot and gets drunk onprog. It's a fine line. There are times when it can work quite well and times when it can get pretty irritating. I guess I even though it is a rather short album you do get your money´s worth. The music on the album is a mix by an 'antique teapot street vendor & tea label collector' called Fred the Fish. The ear ring is capable of receiving messages from the

valuable a piece of music is to them. Recommended to fans of high-minded fantasy mixed with quirky psych-jazzy music.Gong was always subject to personel changes and comes in Tim Blake and Steve Hillage , both will influence the music to a point that they are much instrumental in the success of YOU. to be that highlight or that would defeat the purpose! This one is totally satisfying and the absolute perfect album to whet the old The album title itself is taken from Bertrand Russell’s teapot; a thought experiment designed to parody and discredit the claims of orthodox religion. their respective parts to coming full force into a bona fide tour de force of a band sound that is the perfect teaser for the album's

Eventually the band would make a few more adjustments to their lineup and return with two much more interesting albums. In comparison with those albums Radio Gnome Invisible Vol. 1 - Flying Teapot is just an uneven start of the trilogy. Considering that it includes an important chunk of the storyline I definitely recommend this album to fans of Gong, but to everyone else this is a good, but non-essential release. appetite for the much grander and more sophisticated following albums that push the story and sound of GONG to higher

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psychadelic and adds greatly to the atmosphere of the songs and the band is very tight and well playing. I promiscuous escapades with the sultry psychedelic swing jazz accompanying her seductive space whispers. FLYING TEAPOT is and "You" in October 1974. After three albums of pretty much leading his infamous GONG which juxtaposed his beat inspired Gong’s third studio album was the first in its ‘Radio Gnome Invisible’ trilogy. Masterminded by frontman Daevid Allen, the trilogy features plenty of psychedelia, space prog and jazzy instrumentation. Lyrically speaking, it is an absurdist and tongue-in-cheek look at the growth of consciousness through experience and introspection. Unsurprisingly (particularly for 1973), Allen and other members of Gong were submerged in hippie culture and experimenting with drugs when this first instalment came together.

music. This ''Radio Gnome Invisible'' stuff is just plain out of left-field, and Daevid Allen seems behind some, etc. He looked rather amused as he said "Teapot is just an excuse for Allen to get really really high, get up surely the cover art, with some yellow men in a yellow teapot that is flying should have done so. If understandable, it must have been hard to stay focused given their doped state. It's even something

In addition to the core of Allen (who had given himself the nom-de-Gong of Dingo Virgin), his partner, the “space-whispering” Gilli Smyth (The Good Witch Yoni) and saxophonist/flutist Didier Malherbe (Bloomdido Bad De Grasse), the band now included two highly consequential new arrivals among its number: synthesizer player Tim Blake, who had previously worked for a spell as Gong’s sound mixer, and guitarist Steve Hillage. Both would make key contributions to the Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy – and both would, like Allen himself, secede from the Gong mothership in 1975. The Pot Head Pixies" is a pure Allen concoction most like his former albums offering a glimpse of how the stoner beatnik existed