RARE & CLEAN 1970 BYG ORIG DAEVID ALLEN & GonG BANANAMOON ACID PROG PSYCH
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$ 89
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Jul 2, 2017
Sold Date
Jun 27, 2017
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RARE ORIGINAL 1970 FIRST PRESS
ACID UNDERGROUND GROOVES
DAEVID ALLEN
"B A N A N A M O O N"
\ FRANCE "BYG RECORDS" - 529.325
::: Spare Collection copy :::
RARE & in demand ...Original 1970 first pressing of a 1st solo album by Daevid Allen, after he left Soft Machine, but before he created GonG ... you'll find it a psychedelic progressive drenched adventure...read on::::
NO "Pot-headed Pixies" here, but Daevid Allen's first solo album is just as, if not stranger than his work with Gong and Soft Machine...
Daevid Allen will be remembered for one of the most influential bands of the psychedelic prog- rock genre, Gong. However, long before such a band existed the man was running around the world, meeting up with musical poets, disgruntling government authorities due to his visa running out and generally cooking up some of the most otherworldly stories known to man (and it's not just the pot-head pixies). After having had the time of his life producing the strangest music of the late 60s with the Soft Machine, Allen decided to go on a more personal venture into the world of music, thus creating his first solo album, Bananamoon.
Bananamoon is a completely different kettle of fish to Allen's early '70s works with Gong, though still very much drug-addled and otherworldly all the same. For his first solo album, every song here is different in its own way, amidst psychedelic music.
Daevid Allen's input into the album, besides singing (and playing with a unique guitar style), he has major role in the songwriting process. There are ballsy hard rockers influenced by blues (“White Neck Blooze”), rock 'n' roll (“Time of your Life”), and even nods to the Jimi Hendrix Experience of the late 60s (“I am a bowl”), though all songs are notably distinctive simply because of Allen's voice. You can't listen to the very upbeat and bouncy “Time of your Life” without getting Allen's vocals stuck in your head. There's always something to like about Allen's solo material. If it's not his vocals, it could be his questionable lyrical input (“O hand me bowler and me didgery doo/One banana sandwich and a bucket of tea/abra cabra dabra I'm a coolibar tree” on “Fred the Fish”), his hard guitar strumming on “Time of your Life” and “I am a Bowl” or even the way in which he manages to fuse harmonic group vocals with psyched-out instrumental jams to create almost stunning results ("And his Adventures in the Land of Flip").
That said, what really stands out on Allen's solo material is the more experimental music, resembling closely to the likes of Gong and Soft Machine (of course). The album's longest song by far, “And his Adventures in the Land of Flip” (“His” refers to the character in the preceding song title, “Stoned out Frankenstein”), is divided into two parts. One part actually makes sense with a comprehensible musical structure, showing Allen's more restrained and harmonic musical input, whereas the other simply relies on bizarre instrumental jams where a multitude of different instruments all come together to crash about in hope of making one uniquely crafted sound. If you're asking yourself whether this musical style makes sense or not, just remember that it's not supposed to make sense, it's just there. Because Daevid Allen is simply a musician who puts his ideas down onto paper, and then brings them to life through music in their raw form. He doesn't change the original idea, and that's perhaps why his solo work, especially on Bananamoon, is so strange just like his later projects with early '70s Gong has been known to be.
Daevid Allen is the type of musician that simply carries on spiraling downwards (or upwards, depending on the drugs you're taking when listening to Gong albums) into a marvelous world of his own, and if you're ready to take the trip into his world, then Bananamoon is definitely for you.
- Daevid Allen – Guitar and vocals
- Archie Legget – Bass
- Robert Wyatt – Drums. Vocals and guitar ("Memories")
- Barry St. John, Maggie Bell – Backing vocals
- Gerry Fields – Violin
- Christian Tritsch – Guitar and bass ("It's The Time Of Your Life")
- Pip Pyle – Drums ("It's The Time Of Your Life")
- Gary Wright – keys ("Memories")
- Gilli Smyth – Vocals [Space Whisper] (side 2)
- Nick Evans – spice ("I Am A Bowl")
- Kevin Ayers - Vocals ("White Neck Blooze")
Side 1
- "It's the Time of Your Life" (Christian Tritsch) – 3:21
- "Memories" (Hugh Hopper, Robert Wyatt) 3:37
- "All I Want Is Out of Here" (Tritsch) – 4:48
- "Fred the Fish and the Chip On His Shoulder" (Daevid Allen) – 2:27
- "White Neck Blooze" (Allen) – 4:38
- "Codein Coda" (Allen) - 0:58
Side 2
- "Stoned Innocent Frankenstein" (Allen) – 3:28
- "And His Adventures In the Land of Flip" (Allen) – 11:44
- "I Am a Bowl" (Allen) – 2:46
CONDITION: The cover: Heavily laminated inside & out gatefold cover in quite nice shape for a 47 year old item/artifact, rate it "EX" (excellent) cause it has fresh original colors, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ... collection worthy rarity sure ...
The vinyl: Clean and glossy over both sides, rated M- and both BYG labels are clean ... Byg label is notorious for their primitive pressings, this one actually got past the issues of usual!
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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