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Mar 13, 2015 · Daevid Allen dead at 77. Gong icon Daevid Allen has died at the age of 77, just weeks after he announced he’d been given six months to live. The Australian reported in February that he was suffering from inoperable cancer and he’d decided to stop fighting the disease. Allen said: “I am not interested in endless operations.
Daevid Allen est, en soi, un drôle d'ovni dans le paysage musical. Le projet de Gong s'est métamorphosé de nombreuses fois, et Allen ne rate pas une occasion de faire évoluer sa créature. En 1971, il enregistre Bananamoon , sorte de manifeste psychédélique.
Soft Machine. Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. As a central band of the Canterbury scene, the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive and jazz rock, becoming a purely instrumental ...
Oct 30, 2014 · Emily Bick talks to counter-cultural hero Daevid Allen of Gong about parables of inner and outer space, Australia and keeping it in the family. Emily Bick Published 10:03am 30 October 2014. So in the beginning, there were a bunch of green pot-head pixies in propeller hats bopping around through the galaxies in flying teapots, and they dragged ...
planet gong band: daevid allen - vocals, rhythm guitar steve hillage/stefi lewry - guitar, vocals gilli smyth - vocals, space whisper pip pyle/kif le batteur...
Sep 26, 2016 · Here’s how it works. Gong on life after Daevid Allen. The idiosyncratic vision of Daevid Allen defined Gong for almost half a century. Now a whole new group are continuing as Gong with Allen’s blessing – and some pretty weighty expectations…. Kavus Torabi is addressing the somewhat incredible situation that he and his bandmates in Gong ...
Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Daevid Allen was an original member of Soft Machine in 1966, but he was essentially chased out of England for his radical political activism. In the late '60s, Allen formed psychedelic cult-fave band Gong with a batch of French and British musicians. Over the years, Gong's spacy sound became jazzier and ...
