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GongMagick Brother

Label:

BYG Records – 529.305

Series:

Actuel – 5

Format:

Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, IDN Printing, Gatefold

Country:

France

Released:

Genre:

Rock

Style:

Space Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Tracklist

Early Morning Side
A1Mystic Sister - Magick Brother
Contrabass [Contra Bass]Dieter Gewiffler*
Voice [Voices]Tasmin Smyth
5:54
A2Change The World
Contrabass [Contrabasse]Barre Phillips
4:10
A3Glad To Sad To Say3:35
A4Chainstore Chant - Pretty Miss Titty4:38
A5Fredfish - Hope You Feel OK3:18
Side Of The Late Night
B1Ego
Contrabass [Contrabasse]Earl Freeman
Piano, Piano [Pianoharp]Burton Green*
3:55
B2Gongsong
Contrabass [Contra Bass]Dieter Gewiffler*
Piano [Pno]Earl Freeman
4:05
B3Princess Dreaming
Contrabass [Contrabasse]Barre Phillips
Voice [Voices]Tasmin Smyth
2:55
B45 & 20 Schoolgirls4:23
B5Cos You Got Green Hair4:58
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Companies, etc.

  • Recorded AtStudio E.T.A.
  • Recorded AtStudio Europa Sonor
  • Printed ByI.D.N.

Credits

  • Design [Art & Liner Notes]David Allen*
  • Drums, TablaRachid Houri*
  • Engineer [Studio Eta]Dominique Blanc-Francard
  • Engineer [Studio Europa Sonor]Jean François Baudet
  • Executive-Producer [For Jerome Laparrousaz]Pierre Lattès
  • Flute, Soprano SaxophoneDidier Malherbe
  • Guitar, Bass Guitar, Guitar [Semprini Crystal Ball]Daevid Allen
  • Photography ByChristian Rose, Guy Lequerrec*
  • ProducerJean Georgakarakos, Jean Luc Young*
  • Vocals [Voices, Space Whisper]Gilly Smyth*
  • Words By [Word World], Music ByGilli Smyth

Notes

Recorded September and October, 1969 Studio ETA
Studio Europa Sonor, Paris.

Original pressing of this album :
Cover : framed Daevid Allen photo on cover, and 'Actuel' logo on top right.
Sleeve : Gatefold sleeve laminated outside and inside. "I.D.N. - Made in France" written on inside gatefold.
Disc labels : black and silver labels, with BIEM logo in a box

Above is the correct tracklist, as it is on the disc. But the tracklist is wrong in the inside liner notes for side A, it says :
1. Mystic Sisters (1.32
2. Magick Brother (4.44
3. Glad To Sad To Say (2.55
4. Rational Anthemn (4.10 [this is another title for 'Change The World']
5. Chainstore Chant (1.13
6. Pretty Miss Titty (4.06
7. Hope You Feel OK (3.99 (sic !)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Price Code (Encircled): T
  • Rights Society (Boxed): BIEM

Other Versions (5 of 41)

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Title (Format)LabelCat#CountryYear
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Magick Brother (LP, Album, Stereo, JAT Printing; Gatefold)BYG Records, BYG Records529 305, 529305France1969
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Magick Brother (LP, Album, Stereo, JAT Printing; Discodis Distr.; Gatefold)BYG Records529.305France1969
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Magick Brother (LP, Album, Promo, Gatefold)BYG RecordsBYG-103Japan1969
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Magick Brother (LP, Album, Gatefold)Metronome, BYG RecordsMLP 15.372Germany1970
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Magick Brother (LP, Album, Gatefold)BYG RecordsS-21.206Spain1970

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Reviews

  • lostvibrations's avatar
    You know.....once upon a time from a far off planet.....

    It is often the case that a band's first album is considered their best. Sometimes, a band's creative energy is such that they can go on to create further albums of a similar or even better calibre than the first. Gong is one of these bands, though in this case their first album remains, in my opinion, their best. Not the most accomplished musically certainly. Not the most developed, in particular in terms of the pot head pixie universe. Not the best produced. Not the most critically acclaimed. Sure, AMG will tell you it's not the best place to start to explore the Gong universe. So why is it their best? As is often the case, their first album is more raw, more spontaneous, more revolutionary, more capturing of the zeitgeist of the moment (whatever that was - I am too young to have experienced it first-hand). It is also more varied, less serious, more magickal, more unique.

    Perhaps the final track - Cos You Got Green Hair - is the most likely to split audiences. Emanating in a glow from a hazy reverberating space, floating above the ground on a haze of mystic ethereal incense, mantric drones interplay with ethereal flute and a languid laid back vocal, almost like another instrument, slides into our consciousness, emanating from the overall vibe, hitting the sweet spot of harmonies with the flues and drones, simple melodic steps though with an air of some particular significance, harmonies becoming almost celestial and representative of some higher cosmic musical rules which I am not familiar with but no doubt implying deep significance, taking the whole experience to an altogether sublime but deeply personal thought stream. Yes we are, we're gonna change the world...

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