Daevid Allen ‎– Banana Moon

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

DAEVID ALLEN - BANANA MOON (Decal CDLIK 63) CD 39m
Though this psychedelic album is from the late-60's it is relatively new on CD, in fact it was released in 1990. BANANA MOON shows Daevid Allen's sense of humour later to be found in Gong. Such titles as Fred the Fish and Stoned Innocent Frankenstein are examples of his humour, but as well as humour there is some excellent music. All I want is out of here is a rather straight forward track with a spacey guitar, deep grating vocals and a good steady beat from the percussion, essentially very little to this track which makes it even more effective. Fred the Fish, the one of humorous title is much like a pub song, a sense of "roll out the barrel" with a fiddle playing and laughter and chatting in the background. White Neck Blooze, of course a bluesy track, is very mellow with female backing vocals and a rather witty false ending. This CD is definitely worth listening to, great music and the sound quality isn't too bad either. Also it's worth comparing to his later work with Gong.
review by Alan Freeman in Audion magazine #25 (June 1993)

scusami ma non è più disponibile o potrebbe tornare? che se tornasse preferirei aspettare che comprare un'altra versione..
I'm sorry but is no longer available or could return? that if he came back I'd rather wait to buy another version ..

Note: this version of this album doesn't have the original cover art, it's a gatefold with a history of Gong essay instead of Daevid's drawings and lyrics on the original.

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