RADIO GNOME INVISIBLE VOL. 2 - ANGEL'S EGG

what can I say? this is the album through which I got in contact with the magic green planet, many years ago. it was a great revelation to me, and it still is a cave full of precious gems and enchanted lamps. you know, before listening to it, to me spacey music was pink floyd, ummagumma period, but when other side of the sky started....well, it was as if sliding to a parallel universe. then the flippant genius of a three-odd minute song like "sold to the highest buddha came", complete with a jazzy coda for good measure.....floating guitar solo....a France-scented waltz that suddenly turned Arabia-wards (prostitute poem)....a sorta aline pub song.....and with a placid, mantric invocation to Selene the goddess the first side ended. second side.....oily way and its double coda (outer and inner temple), Pierre Moerlen's marimbas on Love is how you make it, mr. Stevie Hillage at his best on a "must know" space rock track, and finally mr. Malherbe pixieish jazz coda. wonderful........... can I give more that five stars, please?

ps. the magic atmosphere on planet gong is so strong that I came to know of it via a football mag! (those were the days!)

bye bye