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RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1 - FLYING TEAPOT

Gong

 

Canterbury Scene

3.94 | 646 ratings

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Jake E.
4 stars 1. Radio Gnome Invisible:::::::::::::The album opens with spacey psychedelic horn intro with bass, guitar, and synth following behind it. It has a very magical/mystical feeling to it. Strong sax. Space once again...the bass starts again and here come the vocals and sax, oh boy this is trippy!!"Ray--De--Oh--Nome" this song will be very hard for someone with "mainstream" tendencies to enjoy, but then again..."who knows, why the wind blows".

2.Flying Teapot:::::::::::::Very atmospheric/ambient/psychedelic at the start, then it morphs into a psychedelic/jazzy/funky grove with two layers of horns at the same time, it's at this time they start to really jam "have a cup of tea, have another one, have a cup of tea. The end of this song has some great percussion which sort of sounds like Mickey Hart's Planet Drum.

3.The Pot Head Pixies::::::::::::::A rockish tune with trippy lyrics, very weird catchy little song, I like the part when Allen starts singing in French. Great bass with a diverse style of drumming and great guitar from Allen and Hillage.

4.The Octave Doctors & The Crystal Machine:::::::::::::: Is a two minuet sythesizer instrumental with alot of delay, and is pretty much filler.

5. Zero The Hero & The Witch's Spell:::::::::::::::The most rock oreinted song on the album, and my personal favorite, best bass line, great vocals, synth, percussion, psychedelia, everything! Everything about this song is great: Jazzy sax and drums, to hard rock guitar...best song on the album running in at 9:35min. in length.

6. Witch's Song/I Am Your Pussy:::::::::::::Smyth provides lead vocals, she has a unique voice. I like the part when she does that trippy laugh and then the beautiful sax comes to radiate the song. Great song, great guitars, syth, and originality. "I only want to know you."

Jake E. | 4/5 |

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