DASHIELL HEDAYAT & GONG Obsolete LP/1971 France/Psych Rock/William S. Burroughs
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May 27, 2019 Sold Date
Apr 26, 2017 Start Date
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DASHIELL HEDAYAT 'Obsolete' LP (France, Replica Records, Catalogue #RPC023) Brand new/unplayed copy of limited Replica Records label LP edition of French Psych Rock album created by poet Dasheill Hedayat with musical backing by Gong. Originally released in 1971 on the Shandar label. 

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

"Cult classic album, generally believed by many Gong fans and French psych music fans to be the best Gong album out there. Released as a solo album by French beat figure Dashiell Hedayatt in 1971, "Obsolete" offers up a musical polaroid picture of Gong metamorphosing from whimsical slightly clumsy psych rock act to the floating space creature that went on to make Camembert Electrique (shortly after this LP), and the Radio Gnome Invincible Trilogy. This is in most respects a super-secret disguised Gong album, with Daevid Allen and cronies providing instrumental backing whilst poet Hedayat himself takes (mainly spoken) lead vocals. A hidden gem of the band's history. Canterbury historians will also be happy to note the presence of William Burroughs; Burroughs' small cameo somehow makes the album shift into overdrive, taking the remaining part of the album "from breathtaking pulsing musical scenery to terrific jams that foresaw the coming supersonic fifth gear of the later Radio Gnome Invincible days: the side long Cielo Drive 17 pips the atmospheres from backyard dreamings to full solar voyages peeping awkwardly out the periscope - with Daevid Allen at his most relentless and Malherbe on a most inspired flute stint waaaay above the music like a distant satellite." Many rate this among the most important French rock releases—up there with Gainsbourg and Vannier's "Histoire de Melody Nelson", Igor Wakhevitch's 'Logos," and Magma's MDK."

'France had a unique tradition of 'pop poets', being a continental, eccentric variation on the singer-songwriter idiom where the poems or lyrics had the most important role. The musical backdrop was often jazzy and largely improvised, attempting to follow each thoughtful digression of the poet in charge. Dashiell Hedayat (his real name is Jack-Alain Leger) was probably the most important underground poet in the country, being influenced by the beat generation (Allen Ginsbert, William Burroughs, etc). His lyrics will not be discussed here (learning all European languages would keep me in universities the rest of my life), but the music fits it well, being an anarchic mixture of free rock and jazz with some repeated rhythms struggling to keep some reasonable discipline. This works best when Hedayat is not seriously attempting to sing! On Obsolete (1971) he is almost comparable to a seriously freaked out (and French speaking) Bob Dylan backed by Gong. As many of you already will know, Gong indeed provided the loose accompaniment and make this album highly collectable... Recorded insanity!' - Dag Erik Asbjornsen/Scented Gardens Of The Mind

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

  • Eh, Mushroom, Will You Mush My Room? (1.1: Chrysler, 1.2: Fille De L'Ombre, 1.3: Love Song For Zelda) (19:40)
  • Cielo Drive / 17 (21:09)

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Record shipped in professional, superior rectangular shaped, corner-protecting corrugated cardboard record mailer with filler pads. Satisfaction guaranteed!


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