LIVE 2 INFINITEA

This is a live record of the Zero to Infinity album tour of 2000. For me, however, like the studio album, it lacks a certain zest that makes Gong so special. I suspect it was one of the band's first gigs and while the playing is proficient, there are no real moments of magic or space. Saxophonist Theo Travis while obviously a good player just doesn't have the flair required to make something special.

First: Didier Malherbe does play on this album, and second: Theo Travis is an excellent and innovative sax/flute-player. Theo is recording and touring with Robert Fripp, and they released the wonderful "Thread" in 2008.

This cd is wonderfully produced and mixed, I have seldom heard such a wonderful sound on a live recording. About half the album can be found on the Gong DVD "high above..." , while the rest are from Bergen,Norway and Exeter a couple of weeks later. Gong presented new songs from the "zero to infinity"-album. The new songs blend wonderfully with the older songs, and I guess Gong-newbies would have problems hearing which are new songs and which are the classics. I remember Keith tha bass (Planet Gong) describing this line-up as "creme de la creme".

Enough said. I just love this album.

Great Gong album from year 2000. Mostly based on studio album "Zero To Infinity", but contains few older songs as well.

Even if many Gong fans are disappointed by last decades Gong works, including not too much successful Allen's Gong return with "Shapeshifter" in 1992, this album is really good! Even better then it studio companion "Zero to Infinity"!

For a very first time from early seventies you will feel full power of raw Gong sound! Far not so much polished as studio one, full on heavy guitar and sax improvs, album sounds unusually heavy and build a excellent atmosphere. No more polished arrangements, no more flirting with pop audience. Gong combines it's old freaky dreaminess, musical mystic and real rock sound there! Even if not too much different in sense of track list from studio "Zero to Infinity" ( but some old songs sound interesting included in one line between new ones), album has it attraction in energy and fantastic live show atmosphere.

If you're disappointed in Gong after it's classic period, just try this one. It is a big chance you will discover the band again.