Gong – Shamal (1975) [FULL ALBUM]

Es verdad, Jorge Pinchevsky aportó su inmenso talento a la banda

BUEN ROCK PROGRESIVO.

C'est vraiment bien!

meravigliosi gong forever

Some of the tracks have that Hatfield's, National Health rather jazzy feel

where is Shakti Yoni ?

Thanks for posting!

I'm on acid and this is blowing my mind… holy Fuck

As a dedicated American proghead just transitioning from ELP and Genesis to Hatfield and Zappa, buying this album when it came out was a revelation. Never got into earlier Gong (still can't, unfortunately) — but later Gong introduced me to Allan Holdsworth 😉

I don't like everything on here, but Chandra is a damn near masterpiece 😉

Check out Steve Hillage on 'Space Shanty' by Khan on Deram Records

fuck Charly Records,
just so you know

OFFICIAL GONG BAND MEMBERS STATEMENT

We, the surviving members of Gong, do not support BYG/Charly Records upcoming reissue of the Radio Gnome trilogy.

None of the surviving members of the lineups that created those recordings were ever signed to BYG or Charly Records.

The truth is that immediately before the making of Flying Teapot in January 1973, the band learned that Daevid Allen's once record company – BYG Records (also known as Promodisc) – had gone bust, it's Paris office stripped bare, no phones working. The band was abandoned at the Manor Studios at the start of recording the album. Virgin – at the time just a chain of record stores and The Manor studios – was about to launch their record label.

Faced with an unpaid recording bill, they decided to cut their losses and release Flying Teapot as the second release on the new Virgin Records label. That's the true story.

The booklet advertised as accompanying the Charly/BYG Release is full of untruths, lies and falsehoods claiming to represent Charly and BYG Records as some sort of poor victim of Virgin's wickedness. The truth is that none of the musicians on those recordings has ever received a penny of royalty payments for the Charly/BYG releases, or even a statement. This is understandable because we NEVER signed to BYG or Charly Records as Gong.

Meanwhile, forty years later, we still receive statements from Virgin and, for those of us who cleared our advances, royalty payments, even though Virgin has since been sold to EMI and now is owned by Universal Records.

We know and can confirm as 100% corroborated fact that the Original Masters of these albums reside in the Virgin Records Archive, and that Charly has never at any time been given access to them, so Charly's claim to have used the Original Masters is false.

Charly has been brazenly abusing our rights as artists for decades. None of us are rich or powerful enough to sue them. All we can do is to let you, our lovely Gong fans, know that we do not support this release. We will be supporting a new boxed set to be released by Universal in a few months with our full collaboration.

Uniq band!Superior musicans,so innovative,charming and funny.

K.w.T. !

namaste 🙂

No wonder the album is recorded so crisply and the production is so superb, the drumming is featured as it was produced by a great drummer Nick Mason from Pink Floyd what a prog rock masterpiece!!

xavier

Great Gong Album

"there was a lion in a glen that met a unicorn"? after the masterpiece that was "you", this sounds a bit bland, like a mix between a poor man`s mahavishnu orchestra and diluted "welcome"-era santana: not bad jazz-rock fusion in any way, but a trifle…unoriginal perhaps?

Jorge Pinchesvky, violinista Argentino toca en este disco y en Gong Live…
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