Daevid Allen – Banana Moon

The Daevid Allen - Banana Moon in GREEN SINGLE cover is no that a PROMO issue!!!!! On the spin off is it stamped "a arlacem" som betyr PROMO, but as with very many Latin word you must share it in two. I live in Spain and have two French neighbours as solved this mystery in two minutes. So forget REISSUE and take care about your PROMO copy! All BYG records SHALL have a weight at 180 gram, if less it's a later pressing. Originales on BYG have very good sound.

Banana Moon cannot be praised enough for its originality and musicianship. Wyatt's drumming is so good it just leaves me stupefied. I have many, many pressings of this album, and the best one is the 1975 Caroline UK reissue w/alt. cover, second is the French press, w/green-alt. cover.

PS
Stumbled on an interesting article several years ago, that Banana Moon is number 11 on David Bowie's favorite 25 albums list.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2016/04/david-bowie-favorite-albums

Wonderful (in one's mid-fifties) to discover this recording with Robert Wyatt on drums and—in many instances—vocals.

Previously knew of Daevid only via the New York Gong recording: primarily due to its connection with early Material. Oh and his semi-prominent place in the Wyatt's biography Different Every Time: a book which—as is perhaps self-evident—I haven't gotten around to finishing yet.

Not that I hadn't at least heard *of* Camembert Electrique. Seems I have some remedial listening to do.

RIP Barry St John - her obituary led me here.

Like Delvap below I was 18 when I bought this as an import, probably from Virgin when they were just a mail order business. Nearly 50 years later it is still a favourite. I like the early Gong records but I love this one.

The story behind the record is Gong had booked time at the Marquee studios but Daevid and Christian were the only ones to get into the country. (Which is ironic considering why Daevid left Soft Machine).Daevid contacted Robert Wyatt who called around and assembled the band. That's Gary Wright's head which has been added to the picture of Daevid, Robert and Archie.

After a gig once I asked Kevin Ayers where the whole banana thing came from and he said "Canterbury being a commuter area we called it cornflake country and, well, you know how bananas go with cornflakes..."

Hello,
I was 18 when I bought the first version of this LP.
In those days, France was a fine place to live in, and was not yet a ruined country.
Memories memories...
Music today is always as tremedous than half a century ago.

I have had various editions of this album, but the one that I have right now which I am currently playing happens to be the 1979 Charly reissue.

I remember hearing it for the first time as my older brother played it when I was nine or ten years old, once he went out with his friends I entered his room and played his Caroline Records copy, needless to say, I was immediately hooked for the rest of my life, next up was Camembert Electrique and my life has never been the same since.

The musicianship is superb even though to me the quality sounds really rough, but hey, sometimes rough really works for some music, and this is the exact type of music where it does work.

A fantastic album for people of a strange disposition.

This wonderful album saw the light of day in July of 1971

My copy of this has the same Didier Léon painting on the cover but has the BYG yellow/orange labels. Same matrix.

I have this (the BYG 529 345 version) and the gatefold cover is not green and makes no mention of Gong on the outside other than identifying Christian Tristch as "Of Gong". I will upload pictures as soon as possible.

My copy is credited to Gong and has a green cover with a picture of the band on the front - Daevid Allen, Pip Pyle, Robert Wyatt and someone else possibly Archie Legget(?)
Anyway, trippy record!