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2024 news

Gong not‑Gong

'uploaded under a wide range of one-word artist names' … ArsTechnica reports Gong is among those with fake albums appearing on their Spotify pages (since removed) - Ashley Belanger


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Who's the Boy With the Lovely Hair? The Unlikely Memoir of Jakko M Jakszyk - forthcoming Canterbury scene autobiography : Facelift 'zine review · London NW6 book launch · publisher pre‑orders

This Celestial Engine

This Celestial Engine + Das Rad

two excellent bands which give the lie to the idea that improvised and experimental jazz cannot be accessible - Golden Lion, Todmorden


Kavus Torabi

Kavus Torabi solo tour

'intense and intimate … memorably immersive' - Golden Lion, Todmorden


Gong, by Michael Ochs

Gong : 'cult psychedelic heroes'

the band you listen to when you smoke your first joint or drop your first acid trip at school - Michael Heatley, Classic Rock


Fabio Golfetti onstage with Gong

Fabio Golfetti interviews

Facelift : The Canterbury scene(zine) : intro · part 1 - the formative years · part 2 - Violeta de Outono · part 3 - The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet and the Daevid Allen connection · part 4 - the glissando guitar · part 5 - Gong


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Violeta de Outono : A História de um Clássico do Rock Psicodélico [ebook]

A única obra existente que relata toda a história da criação da maior e mais querida banda de rock psicodélico do Brasil -


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Gong : Camembert Electrique

2024 re‑issue gatefold CD or LP available now… If a mischievous garden gnome ate an entire tin of hash brownies and fell into a dream about early Soft Machine throwing a party in Syd Barrett's hair… - Jim Allen, Bandcamp Daily


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Kavus Torabi interview

echoes and dust : on touring with Ozric Tentacles, Gong's new set, the Unending Ascending album, macrocosmicity, flying teapot-shaped swimming pools, new solo album, 'Lion of the Lords Elect' collaboration for Roadburn festival, etc.