RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE VOL. 3 - YOU

YOU is the Masterpiece of the Canterbury School's french band . Last volet of their Trilogy "Radio Gnome Invisible" (after "Flying Teapot" and "Angel's Egg"), a pataphisical mythology inspired by the genious mischievous sprite Daevid Allen after an astral trip under LSD, YOU is the most cosmic and eccentric album of Progressive Rock.

Sometimes atonal or even somewhat dissonant (Didier "Bloomdido" Malherbe on wind instruments), the music presents extraodinary melodies exploring jazz, free, pop and space-rock. By listening this delirious disc, these perfect instrumentalists and happy elfs from an another planet (The Planet Gong !) form the best band of the world.

On "Master Builder", the rythmical accelerations (of Mike Howlett on Bass and of Pierre Moerlen on drums) and the cosmic flights on the E.T. Steve Hillage's guitar wind you. The long track "Isle of Everywhere" is really ambitious and the musicians are at their zenith. Astmospheric instrumental passages, floating music, fluidity of soli, mystical singing (inspired from Tibet), spatial keyboards (Tim Balke), woman space whispers (Gilly Smith) , electronic effects (Venux de Luxe), surrealistic and futurist lyrics of the leader Daevid Allen, the whole impregnated of an unrivalled humour.

GONG is not dead !