GONG “Magick Brother” SEALED LP prog ‘77 reissue UK import AFFINITY Daevid Allen
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Description
Artist: GONG
Title: “Magick Brother”
Label: AFFINITY ~ AFF4 . Stereo pressing.
Year: 1977 (1970 recordings)
Condition: Album is STILL SEALED in sparkling clean original factory shrink wrap. Shrink wrap is clean and fully intact. Price sticker is neatly affixed to the front of shrink wrap. Seams and corners are flawless. A beautiful sealed copy for your collection!
NOTE: This album came from the extensive personal collection of the former owner of a chain of retail music stores who retired from the business in the 1980’s. The albums have been stored virtually untouched and unplayed since that time in a climate controlled, non-smoking environment. We are in the process of selling many investment grade coloured vinyl LPs, promos, sealed LPs, and other rare collector items from the collection over the coming months. If you insist on MINT albums, you will not be disappointed.
Review:
“In 1970, the world got its first taste of the original pothead pixie, Daevid Allen's Gong, as Magick Brother was released in France on the BYG label. Allen's wife, Gilli Smyth, penned all the tunes on the album, and Allen's now-classic "Ph.P." drawing style graces the inside of the gatefold. Leaning a little toward the pop end of the spectrum, Magick Brother is a fairly light album, devoid of the blatant psychedelic/hippie qualities which shine through so brilliantly on the later Camembert Electrique. Smyth's "space whispering" makes its debut on the opening track, though the album is not as spacy as it is ethereal. "Gong Song" is a highlight, with lyrics describing a pothead pixie who came down from the planet Gong to sing his green song -- the roots of the Gong myth. Allen's guitar sound is a bit flat and hollow throughout the project, dynamics taking a back seat in most of these recordings. He relies on distortion and various guitar augmentations, but this all works quite well in the context of the collective sound. Much of the vocal harmonizing on the album is typical of many '60s pop troupes and sounds fairly dated today. Didier Malherbe's sax and flute playing spices up this mostly pop-oriented prog rock outing, helping to make this a cut above the radio norm. Although this is an interesting release, especially for its status as the first Gong project, it is not typical Gong and is not recommended as a starting point for sampling the band's recordings.”
(courtesy David Ross Smith, allmusic.com.)
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