RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE VOL. 3 - YOU

While the music for the body makes you dance, the other makes you think. YOU is actually music for the mind, but it affects it in such a way the listener has no control over itself. Listen to Gong feels like somebody had pulled your brain off of your head, which is the very LSD effect. At the end of Mother Magick Invocation, Allen says the hipnotic line "ZA-I ZA-O MA-I MA-O TA-E TA-O", and suddenly you are into an almost never ending cosmic trip. Gong is, IMVHO, the last word in psychedelia and sapcey rock. Hillage's stunning soaring guitar, Howlett's brilliant bass riffs (the band's speciality), Moerlen's accurate and innovative percussion... with Blake's spacey synths and Didier Malherbe's colourful on top of everything creates the perfect atmosphere for Allen's concept.

I can even describe each song perfectly, but all I shall tell is: if mushroom tea is like Gong's music, I'd love to try it again and again...