RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE PART 1 - FLYING TEAPOT

Gong's Flying Teapot album is a nice continuation of the psychedelic avant-garde space-jazz style of Camembert Electric. It's also maintains the same inconsistency though. It's understandable, it must have been hard to stay focused given their doped state. It's even something of an achievement they managed to stir up their mindset to pull off the two great 10 minute psychedelic trips here.

The opening Radio Gnome Invisible has its moments but it's a bit too goofy really. People with more sense of humour then me will probably dig this a lot more. Serious experiments like Flying Teapot and Zero The Hero please me a lot more and take the space-rock of Floyd and Hawkwind even deeper into the cosmos. 4 star material. The rest of the album barely gets above 2 stars though.

If you still wonder what is to be found at the heart of space, Gong will be able to tell you it's basically one huge stash of pot out there. 3 stars